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Although his experience was limited when he started playing with the band, as he was part of the local Portsmouth scene but had been first exposed to a guitar only seven months before starting with the Cranes, he quickly assimilated into the group, adding the needed live guitar power needed on tour.
It was during these early gigs that Matt made a sound impression upon the band and an unlucky venue owner. According to Alison, Matt was the primary reason the Cranes (inadvertently) destroyed a dressing room. It had something to do with the fact that Matt got horribly drunk and got sick - all over the the place.
During his time with the band, some of his favorite bands were the Young Gods and the Cure. The opportunity to tour with the Cure was an especially exciting time for Matt, as he was an avid collector of Cure records and the opportunity to play with some of his heros was a dream come true. He had this to say about the effect and influence of the Cure tour on the Cranes:
"the cure tour was the inspiration for "forever" and hence the title of the album was named partly after a cure song which we all played in dublin with them, and because we were all so happy at that time."
In 1996 Matt left the group, on good terms. He moved to New Zealand for a spell and then returned to the U.K. to pursue his own online retail music shop, Blistering Barnacles. Since then, Matt has fallen off the radar screen. However, he was seen in February 2000 backstage at a Cranes gig.
Of his experience in the Cranes, Matt had this to say:
"incidentally, my favourite cranes album is forever which i think would be hard to be topped, but this also has other values to me apart from musical quality. the fact that all of them are great to play live and it was written from the inspiration of the cure tour are also reasons why out of all the experiences i've had in my life, few of them come as close to playing adrift on stage."
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