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Matt Tong. Matthew Chee Hung Tong (born 29 April 1979) is a British musician from Bournemouth, England. He is best known as the drummer of Bloc Party from 2002 to 2013 and has been a member of Algiers since 2015. Early life. Tong was born in Bournemouth, England to a British mother and a Malaysian-Chinese father.
13 giu 2023 · Tong first blew minds as the drummer of the British post-punk band Bloc Party. In his recent years with the genre-agnostic Algiers, he's found his place chasing a more collective mood ...
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The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Franklin James Fisher, Ryan Mahan, Lee Tesche, and Matt Tong. Algiers pulls from a divergent number of musical (and nonmusical) influences; the most notable of which being post-punk, hip-hop, Southern Gothic literature, and the concept of the Other.
This week, Brett spoke (virtually) to well-renowned drummer Matt Tong, a veteran of indie darlings Bloc Party and now with the critically acclaimed group Algiers. We talked about lockdown, the influences on the band’s last album, Massive Attack, favourite memories and what success means to him.
Matthew Chee Hung Tong or Matt Tong (born 29 April 1979), is a British musician. He played drums for the rock band Bloc Party, until his departure in 2013 and has been the drummer for Algiers since 2015. He was born in Bournemouth in England, United Kingdom but his parents were originally from England and Malaysia.
11 set 2017 · Matt Tong's inventively staggered grooves and unhinged energy helped launch Bloc party to critical acclaim and worldwide commercial success. He talks to Joe ...
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29 mar 2022 · Original drummer Matt Tong left the band in the wake of ‘Four’ in 2013 and bassist Gordon Moakes departed two years later. Kele previously told NME the former was down to “someone doing cocaine...
