57 Facts About Matthew Good

Matthew Frederick Robert Good was born on June 29,1971 and is a Canadian musician.

Matthew Good was the lead singer and songwriter for the Matthew Good Band, one of the most successful alternative rock bands in Canada during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Since the band disbanded in 2002, Good has pursued a solo career and established himself as a political commentator and mental health activist.

Between 1996 and 2016, with sales by Matthew Good Band included, Good was the 25th best-selling Canadian artist in Canada.

Matthew Good has been nominated for 21 Juno Awards during his career, winning four.

Matthew Good taught himself to play guitar at age 20 and continued to write songs.

Matthew Good formed a three-piece rock band in 1995 composed of himself, drummer Charlie Quintana and bassist Geoff Lloyd.

In December 1996, Matthew Good Band signed a two-album deal with Private Music.

In January 2000, Matthew Good underwent vocal cord surgery after being diagnosed with sarcoidosis, prompting him to temporarily quit smoking.

Matthew Good himself did not attend the ceremony, and guitarist Dave Genn has been quoted as saying that he only attended for the open bar.

In March 2002, during his first interview after the breakup was confirmed, Matthew Good stated that the breakup was "a conscious effort on everybody's part".

Matthew Good recorded the album with long-time MGB producer Warne Livesey, who earned a Juno nomination for the effort.

Matthew Good later noted that he loved the freedom of being able to write a song, enter the studio, and have a recording completed almost immediately, rather than having to deal with the sometimes arduous process of recording layers and layers of music for a single song.

Matthew Good encountered controversy with the video for "Alert Status Red".

Matthew Good opted to turn all of the footage over to Kyle Davison, who directed the video for "In a World Called Catastrophe", to see if anything could be made out of it.

Matthew Good approved of the video, and made it available for download on his website.

Matthew Good was unaware that Davison had utilized several short clips of surveillance footage of the Columbine High School shootings in the piece.

Matthew Good then returned the video to his website and expressed his support for the work of his co-director.

In March 2005, Matthew Good brought in Ryan Dahle and Meegee Bradfield of Limblifter to join his band.

Matthew Good noted that he was concerned his previous line-up had run its course creatively, and that, as a solo artist, he was graced with the freedom to change direction by involving different musicians.

Matthew Good hoped that Dahle and Bradfield might be able to lend a new perspective to familiar material.

However, when Matthew Good undertook a brief tour of Ontario in July 2005, he was rejoined by Priske and Valdson.

Matthew Good took particular care in the production of the expanded deluxe edition of In a Coma, which included an additional CD and a DVD.

In December 2005, Matthew Good previewed a demo called "Black Helicopter", which he recorded at home using GarageBand on an Apple Power Mac G5.

In March 2006, Matthew Good embarked on a solo acoustic tour of Canada, which featured smaller crowds and more intimate settings.

Matthew Good spent several weeks leading up to the tour reworking many of his older songs to fit a solo acoustic format, including rarities such as "Fated" and "Life Beyond the Minimum Safe Distance".

Matthew Good was joined on tour by opening act Melissa McClelland, with whom he played a cover of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" at the end of his solo performances.

In support of Hospital Music, Matthew Good embarked on a brief solo tour of the United States in March 2008, and began a full-band tour of Canada in May.

In July 2008, Matthew Good announced he had begun working on his fourth solo album to be titled Vancouver.

Matthew Good later described the recording of Hospital Music and Vancouver as having together "closed chapters" regarding his personal life, allowing him to focus his energy on a stylistically different project for his next album.

In 2011, Vancouver won the "Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year", the second time Matthew Good has won the award.

Matthew Good entered the studio on October 19,2010, to record his fifth album as a solo artist, Lights of Endangered Species.

Matthew Good again worked with producer Warne Livesey, marking the sixth album Warne has produced with Good.

Matthew Good reunited with former MGB drummer Ian Browne during the tour of the album later in the year.

On November 5,2012, Matthew Good announced via Facebook that he had entered the studio to begin recording his sixth solo studio album.

On July 17,2015, Matthew Good released the song "All You Sons and Daughters", the first single from his seventh solo studio album, Chaotic Neutral.

The EP was promoted in a tour during February and March 2017 in which Matthew Good performed the Beautiful Midnight album in its entirety.

Matthew Good embarked on a co-headline tour across Canada with Our Lady Peace in March, 2018.

In 2019, Matthew Good embarked on his first solo acoustic tour since 2007.

On October 18,2019, Matthew Good released a new single, titled "Sicily".

Apart from his music career, Matthew Good has been a writer and blogger.

From late 1997 through the end of 2000, Matthew Good published a series of monthly "manifestos" on the band's website.

Matthew Good once commented that he would have become a history teacher had he not found success as a musician.

Matthew Good has been heavily involved with Amnesty International, bringing Amnesty representatives on the road with him during his 2004 tour and offering a limited-edition soccer jersey on his website with proceeds going to Amnesty.

In 2008, Matthew Good created a new website entitled Dear San Diego, on which he writes fictional journal entries.

Until recently Matthew Good made a practice of return following all Twitter followers but recently has found that reading so much content from these followers has left him with no other option but to unfollow all but a few.

Matthew Good has been affected by ongoing bouts of mania and anxiety throughout his career, many of which he credited to the stresses of popularity.

Matthew Good recalls regularly passing out and vomiting during the time of The Audio of Being's recording in 2001.

In early 2006, prior to a solo acoustic tour of Canada, Matthew Good was prescribed Ativan to help counter his anxiety.

The last two shows of the tour were cancelled for what Matthew Good later explained was a "nervous breakdown".

However, just a few days into the trip, Matthew Good found himself overwhelmed emotionally, experiencing what he described as the "absolute worst manic episode" while visiting friends in Bristol.

Matthew Good returned to Vancouver, moving into his parents' home.

One night, while at his parents' house, Matthew Good took upwards of 45 Ativan pills and collapsed to the floor.

In September 2013 Matthew Good took to the stage at Toronto's TEDx conference to speak about his creative life and his bi-polar diagnosis in his presentation titled "Balancing mental health and genius".

Matthew Good claimed that Talk Talk lead singer Mark Hollis, who he cites as one of his biggest musical influences, was "like, my fifth cousin by marriage".

Matthew Good quickly denied these allegations on his Twitter and Instagram accounts.

Matthew Good did not attend any of the ceremonies where he won awards.