William Matthew Noveskey was born on June 16,1976 and is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, and bassist, best known as the bassist in the bands Blue October and Harvard of the South, and as bassist and frontman of the bands machines and Icarus Bell.
22 Facts About Matt Noveskey
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William Matthew Noveskey was born on June 16,1976 in Adrian, Michigan.
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Matt Noveskey grew up in a very musical household in Northern Michigan.
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Matt Noveskey had two uncles who both played bass guitar and sang in touring rock bands, his brother plays drums, and his grandparents played guitar, piano and accordion.
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Matt Noveskey has said that he was interested in playing both drums and guitar, and that playing bass sort of allowed him to do both at the same time.
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Matt Noveskey graduated from Saint Francis High School in Traverse City in 1994.
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Matt Noveskey attended college at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, first majoring in English, and later in elementary education.
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Matt Noveskey bartended while playing weekend shows with a variety of local acts, including the bands Switch and Botfly.
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Matt Noveskey joined Blue October in 1998 after the departure of the group's original bassist, Liz Mullally.
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Matt Noveskey played guitar, bass and sang backing vocals on Blue October's 2000 major label debut Consent to Treatment.
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Matt Noveskey stayed with the band even after they were dropped from Universal Records, but left for health reasons at the end of the tour in late 2002.
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Hudson, in 2010, Matt Noveskey temporarily took over guitar duty during performances until the band hired Julian Mandrake as a full-time lead guitarist.
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Matt Noveskey is the primary singer and lyricist in the band, which have recorded a 5-track EP and a live album.
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In 2019 Matt Noveskey started working with Alan Adams on a new musical project called Icarus Bell.
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Several of the artists Matt Noveskey produced have signed to major labels, won awards, achieved chart success and had their songs placed in movies and television shows.
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Matt Noveskey's roster has included the bands I Am Dynamite, Dossey, Courrier and Nolo.
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Matt Noveskey managed Dalton Rapattoni who finished third on American Idol, and he produced Rapattoni's debut solo album Nobody's Home.
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Matt Noveskey is often accompanied by his machines bandmate Ryan Holley.
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In 2014, Matt Noveskey joined the band Harvard of the South with Steve Schiltz of Longwave and Justin and Jeremy Furstenfeld of Blue October.
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Matt Noveskey plays bass in the Ryan Delahoussaye-fronted side project The Meeting Place.
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Matt Noveskey is a celebrity endorser of Fender basses, Aguilar bass amps, Michael Kelly acoustic basses, Old School FX pedals and Black Diamond strings, and the first Moniker bass guitar was custom-built for Matt Noveskey in 2013.
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Matt Noveskey is a member of the advisory board for Black Fret, an Austin-based organization that finds and funds local music talent.