Matt Bonner

Matt Bonner has spent most of the past ten years writing, recording, traveling, touring, and furiously scribbling on airplane napkins or hotel notepads or anything else close at hand.

His 2003 album, Signs Of Passing, is available on his label, Stone Circle Records, and follows Gauge, the 2000 epic from Medicine Stone.

His first ebook, Mileage, is a true story about a 14,000 mile road trip around the United States, and comes replete with highway drama, sleeplessness, reflection, and near death in roughly equal measures.

His next CD, Seven Words, is due in early 2007. He's also developing a second book, a series of high-intensity vignettes based (so far) around a mythical place called The Lakehouse.

Matt has lived in Austin, Boulder, Jackson Hole, Vermont, and has spent extended time in London, Chicago, and Boston. He currently lives outside Dublin, Ireland.

BAND HISTORY

Medicine Stone 1997-
Arrival Of Horatio (guest keys & perc) 1996-1999
Taller Shadows 1993-94
[unnamed Bistro trio] 1992-93
Salacious Crumb 1991-92
Yukon Time 1987-1991, 1996-97

CHRONOLOGY
age 7 - involuntarily starts classical piano
age 12 - meets J. Geils, who gives him front row tickets, a t-shirt, and his first album, an autographed copy of Love Stinks
age 13 - gets 'class musician' and writing awards; endures braces
age 14 - joins first band; they practice often, change names constantly, and never gig or record anything
age 15 - writes first complete original (fantastically cliched) tune
age 18 - goes to Middlebury College in Vermont (Philosophy, Physics)

TRIVIA

Matt uses the Haindl tarot deck. He collects strings of christmas lights, and often has large orange cats, except for Little, currently black and expected to remain same. He waited tables once for 6 weeks and was horrible at it. He drinks as much coffee as possible and likes chianti and dirty martinis up with lots of olives. He's six foot one, ambidextrous, and his favorite color is purple.

For some reason, that last sentence is the most oft-quoted one.

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