| Favourite Cheese | Extra-mature Cheddar, always a classic |
| Favourite Beer | Lancaster Bomber, although I did once taste a beer called Skull-splitter that hit the spot nicely |
| Biggest Bugbear | Splitting a reed! It takes me ages to get one to squark just the way I like it... |
| Musical Influences | Alistair Gilies (All Blacked Up), Evan Ziporyn, Hootie and the Blow Fish, Spiers & Boden, with no small amount of Peatbog Faeries mixed in. |
The 'Dr Jekyl' of a classical music education in the golden spires of Durham University, mixed with ' Mr Hyde' of a meeting with morris men at an impressionable age created this hideous hybrid of a musician... Specialists are still searching for the cure. Rumour has it that it involves dancing naked on the Wrekin on a May Day morning; it hasn't worked yet, though, and Matthew is still helping the police with their enquiries.