By the time he was 18 Matt Clark was already gigging at many of London's best venues including, The Garage, Barfly, Underworld and Red Eye. The next ten years were spent touring the UK and Europe, but it wasn't until 2005 that Matt realised a passion for singing. With the help of Rich in Matt's original project "The Indigo System" the vocal urge had now become a necessity and things started to move pretty quick.Now Exit Motel shows things in a whole new light. By his own admission Matt's a songwriter more than anything and that's what comes first. Clearly for Matt, music is everything and the rest of his life can just pass him by.
Rich Patmore completes the other half of the songwriting, vocals and guitar playing in Exit Motel. Rich has been writing and recording music ever since he realised he could plug a knackered set of headphones into a mic input of a tape deck and sing into them. He's moved on from those primitive beginnings as he now favours a Korg digital 4-track for capturing initial ideas on and a small Pro Tools rig to develop songs, but the excitement of writing new ideas and getting them down has never been lost.
Rich also thrives on live perfomances, as he openly confesses, he is a born show-off who craves the attention of a crowd.
Mr.Ford was signed up to record and produce Exit Motel's debut album way back in February 2006. What was conceived as a two-man acoustic album soon became a drum-filled, piano-drenched journey of intent. Mr. Ford taking on both these roles."He just got what we were trying to create and once that had become apparent Paul became far more than just the engineer. We worked in a pretty untypical way really, jamming each track through with Paul, laying down the drum or percussion track, overlaying the guitars and vocals, then kinda having a free-for-all with the bass tracks. Each song was recorded in its entirety before the next was started and that's definitely part of the reason the album takes on so many forms.
Matt and I both know that this album wouldn't be half as complete without the input of Mr.Ford. He is a legend." - Rich, Exit Motel
One of London's finest. It's difficult to describe but Myrrh-Ce adds the most poignant of touches to Exit Motel's debut album. Featuring on the tracks "Life Of Free-Fall", "Lost Inner City Estrange"and perhaps most resoundingly on the duet like "Mirrors"."It was by chance really that Myrrh-Ce was available at the same time as we were putting the final touches to the album. Especially as the last two months had seen Myrrh-Cedez recording tracks out in the States.
You can never be sure how two things will ever come together and I guess that was sort of the case with Exit Motel and Myrrh-Ce. Sometimes it works and sometimes it don't. This definitely does. We knew she was good from hearing her previous tracks but I don't think we were ready for just how good she was going to sound on the tracks.
Myrrh-Ce definitely brings a whole new light to "Flights Of Gravity" which the album wouldn't be the same without. I think we've a sound we didn't think we were actually capable of achieving and Myrrh-Ce's voice definitely made that possible Let's hope I can talk her into playing some live shows, I don't think the tracks will ever be the same without her." - Matt, Exit Motel