Matt Helders
- Actor
- Composer
- Writer
Matthew Helders was born 7th of May 1986 in a Sheffield suburb, High
Green. In his teens he formed the highly successful band Arctic Monkeys
with his mates Alex Turner, Jamie Cook and Andrew Nicholson. He bought
a drum kit "'cos that was all that was left.". The band rose to fame
with an international breakthrough in 2006, after gigging around the UK
for some years. He went to college in Barnsley with band mate Alex and
had A-levels in musical technique, where they both passed the exam with
top grades. Matt's drumming technique is funky and inspired by that
from rap and hip hop-music, which he was a big fan of in his teens. He
also provides his distinctive backing vocals, which can be heard on
tracks such as "You probably couldn't see for the lights, but you were
staring straight at me", "D is for Dangerous" and "Teddy Picker". He
often does cameos in the band's music videos, since the rest of the
band don't do that. In Paul Fraser's "Scummy Man" (2006), a short film
based on Arctic Monkey's #1 hit "When the sun goes down", he plays a
young man on his way home from a band practice who turns down a
prostitute offering him her services. He also appears in the music
video for the song.
