Mat Richmond

I'm an obnoxious, cantankerous old twat, slowly morphing into Statler or Waldorf. Having spent the nineties as a fully fledged Muso, writing songs and playing toilets throughout London and the Midlands, I'm now writing and playing for fun again after a break of a few years. As for real jobs, I've been a starter-motor/Alternator mechanic, worked in high street food retail management (soooo very tedious) and am now happily involved working at one of the country's best loved museums. I have always had a strong interest in Nature/Ecology and the environment. I studied Environmental science at college while being a hairy (bleached), Bass playing alt.rock-head. I love living in London where I've been based since the mid-nineties, seeking out and exploring every patch of green I can find. Now in my early forties, I'm kind of wondering what happened! One minute it's 1993 and I'm banging out tunes to hairy, grungy stoners, the next I'm "Joe real-job." Anyone out there who remembers "Vinyl" Mat Black, Dusty Head, Mat Sharp (or any of my other earlier, later or geekier incarnations!) feel free to get in touch. My plans... Keep writing songs - mellowed with age but still plenty of angst - just acoustic angst. Continue my studies of the Natural World and hope to see more of it over the next decade before I'm too old to enjoy it - NZ, Oz, Canadian Rockies, Amazon next on list.