Patrick Matthews Musical artist

Patrick Matthews (born 29 November 1975) is the former bass guitarist of Australian garage rock band The Vines and currently the bass guitarist of Youth Group. In 1994 Matthews founded The Vines with vocalist and lead guitarist Craig Nicholls. The two met while working at McDonald's in Sydney. Matthews stayed with the band for two albums, Highly Evolved (2002)and Winning Days (2004). After the tour supporting the release of Winning Days, he left the stage and the band after Nicholls had a breakdown at Sydney's Annandale Hotel. From 2004 Matthews is the bassist of the Australian band Youth Group who have experienced commercial success as an indie rock band in not just Australia, but the UK and US, with a #1 single "Forever Young", and #10 album, Casino Twilight Dogs, on the Australian ARIA charts in 2006. However by 2008 Youth Group's commercial fortunes had declined significantly with The Night Is Ours' album only managing to debut at #66 in Australia.

Personal facts

Birth dateNovember 29, 1975
Birth place
New South Wales , Sydney , Australia
Hometown
New South Wales
Sydney
Australia

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Musical artist

Career started1994
associated musical artist
The Vines (band)
Youth Group
The Jewel And The Falcon
BackgroundNon vocal instrumentalist
genre
Grunge
Alternative rock
Garage rock
Neo-psychedelia
Indie rock
Post-grunge
instrument
Bass guitar
Electric guitar
Keyboard instrument

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