Matthew Bellamy biography

Date of Birth

9 June 1978, Cambridge, England, UK

Birth Name

Matthew James Bellamy

Nickname

Bells
Matt

Height

5' 7" (1.70 m)

Mini Biography

Matthew Bellamy was born in Cambridge and grew up for much of his life in Devon. While attending school there he decided to turn to music, and after going through a number of band lineups finally came to the one that is today known as Muse. Matt's fellow band members are Chris Wolstenholme'(Bass) and 'Dominic Howard'(Drums). He is a very talented musician who plays guitar and piano, writes nearly all the songs, is behind the string arrangements on their albums and has a good vocal range. He comes from a musical background as well. His father, George Bellamy, was a member of the instumental band, 'The Tornados', who had a big-selling hit single in 1962 with 'Telstar', which topped the charts both in America and the UK.

Muse have gone from strength to strength over the past few years. Their first album, 'Showbiz', was followed up by the hugely successful 'Origin of Symmetry'. Then, taking a break for a year during which they released a DVD and live CD entitled 'Hullabaloo', they wrote and recorded their forth studio album, Absolution. Absolution has already recieved many excellant reviews, as Muse look set to make their mark as one of the greatest bands to emerge from Britain in the past couple of decades. Matt remains a relatively shy person, although his performances on stage are far from unexciting.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Argeiphontes_sky

Trade Mark

His often spikey hair.
His range of custom built manson guitars known as "Mattocasters"

Trivia

Plays piano and guitar.
Singer, pianist, songwriter, guitarist with band Muse.
Performed "Hysteria" at the Brit Awards Show 2004. [17 February 2004]
Total Guitar Magazine voted his intro riff in the song "Plug In Baby" as one of the top 20 greatest guitar riffs ever. (May 2004)
Won the "Best Live Act" award at the Brit Awards 2005.
Played the clarinet when at school.
Won 2007 Brit Awards Best Live Act.
Won NME Awards three times (2005, 2008 & 2009) for Best Live Act.

Personal Quotes

(First song he wrote) "I think the first song we did was 'Small Minded', which was when we were 15 years old, and its about the small minded attitudes of people in our town. We didn't approve of this. Now the world, you know, is just not good enough for us, so we've got to change the world so it suit us. And thats what we're in the process of doing right now. And the ideals breaking, crumbling. Ideals breaking - that's what lifes all about, really"
(MTV Europe awards, 2004) "I saw Eminem, actually i couldn't get into the bathroom because Eminem was in there and he had about 10 security guards. I'm not sure if they were going to the toilet with him or just blocking..."
I'm sure one day we're going to do a Dark Side of the Moon album. I think we're going to go the whole nine yards and become a full prog-rock band with the 15-minute piano solo. I think we need to get that out of our system.
Paris Hilton came to the LA show, too. But she left during Knights of Cydonia, which is the first song on the set. If we're offending Paris Hilton we must be doing something right. (in an interview by Q Magazine)

Where Are They Now

(December 2003) Touring through Europe and UK, promoting new album, Absolution.
(January 2006) Recording Muse's new album, set to be released this Spring

(June 2010) Currently touring Europe: The Resistance tour.