Patrick Matthews

Who is Patrick Matthews?

Patrick Matthews is the former bass guitarist of Australian garage rock band The Vines and currently the bass guitarist of Youth Group. In 1994 Matthews founded The Vines with vocalist and lead guitarist Craig Nicholls. The two met while working at McDonald's in Sydney. Matthews stayed with the band for two albums, Highly Evolved and Winning Days. After the tour supporting the release of Winning Days, he left the stage and the band after Nicholls had a breakdown at Sydney's Annandale Hotel. From 2004 Matthews is the bassist of the Australian band Youth Group who have experienced commercial success as an indie rock band in not just Australia, but the UK and US, with a #1 single "Forever Young", and #10 album, Casino Twilight Dogs, on the Australian ARIA charts in 2006. However by 2008 Youth Group's commercial fortunes had declined significantly with The Night Is Ours' album only managing to debut at #66 in Australia.