Writer : Matt Fraser

There’s always that guy stood towards the back of the gig, drinking too many pints of cider, shaking his head in all the places everyone else is applauding, and nodding his head along when everyone else has gone for a smoke in disgust. That man is likely to be Matt. Working as a Quality Manager in a University hasn’t dampened Matt’s desire for the obscure, and if a band can’t be pigeon-holed then it’s likely to appeal to him. Sub-genres of sub-genres are his musical tipple of choice; why have a trad metal band, when you can have a punk-metal-industrial-prog-tech-hardcore one? Exactly.