West 13 music
Matt CHEADLE
guitarist,singer,writer,producer
Photo: Dean Zatkowsky
How it started …
London born multi-instrumentalist Matt Cheadle began his professional music life playing guitar and singing in the city’s club and pub scene before graduating to touring the world as one of the 90s and early 00s most sought after session and side guitarists, performing with artists such as Natalie Imbruglia, Lisa Stansfield and Paul Young and playing on several albums for Grammy nominated producer Steve Levine.
After joining US based rock band i-94 he moved to Los Angeles in 2004 to write and record their first album, ‘Don’t Get Nervous’. Their debut single, ‘Go Back In Time’, received national radio airplay and reached number 3 in the Yahoo music charts ahead of Coldplay and Maroon 5. Much of their music was also picked up for licensing in film and TV.
After five albums the band parted company and Matt joined renowned American-Israeli group Moshav and toured the US and Europe playing guitar for British singing legend Engelbert Humperdinck.
After the continued success of licensing i-94’s songs in television and film he created West13Music in 2010 as a production house for his various solo and collaborative projects; writing and producing songs for artists and creating music for use in television and films; working with companies such as Extreme Music, Atrium Music, and Music Sales.
In 2015 he produced and co wrote the album ‘Ride The Bull’ with country singer Robbie Davis, which resulted in a Country Music residency at LA’s legendary House of Blues and radio air play on country digital radio.
In a change of direction he composed the soundscape to create an immersive art curation for the retrospective art show in Madrid of internationally acclaimed Spanish artist Juan Antonio Guirado, entitled ‘Re Birth - The third eye’. The success of his atmospheric composition resulted in commissions by other artists for major international art shows and events.
He currently plays lead guitar/ vocals for corporate events in California with Jordan Music Entertainment as well as performing with independent artists in the US and UK.
SYNC
Television
ABC: Men In Trees, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, The Bachelor, Cougar Town, Bachelorette
NBC: America’s Got Talent, Celebrity Circus (title Song), Last Comic standing
FOX: F Word
CW: America’s Next Top Model
ABC Family: America’s Prom Queen, Cutting edge 2, The Vineyard
BBC: Top Gear
TBS: Cougar Town
FX: Sons of Anarchy
A&E/History: Pawnstars, Swamp People, Counting Cars, Rollergirls, Duck Dynasty, Barter Kings, American Restoration, Shipping Wars, Gene Simmons family Jewels
TLC: Miss America Reality Check (Title Song), LA Ink
Style network: Modern Girls Guide to Life, Dress My Nest, Style Her Famous.
MTV: Jersey Shore, The Hills, Laguna Beach, Road Rules, Newport Harbor, Maui Fever, Making The Band, Parental Control, Made, Exposed, Real World, Real World Road Rules, Two A day, Date my Mom, X Effect, Backstage Pass, Truelife
VH1: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, Celebrity Rehab, Shot
VH1 Classic: Behind The Music (Courtney Love)
Spike: Video Games Awards, Manswers, Disorderly Conduct, Major League Eating Chowdown, Ink Master, Tattoo Nightmares,
CMTV: My Big Redneck Wedding, I Want to Look Like a Cheerleader Again, CMT insider, Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders,
E!: Keeping up with the Kardashians, The Girls next door, Paradise City
Animal Planet: Jockeys
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club
Discovery: Stunt Junkies, Wreckcreation Nation with Dave Mordal, American Guns, Diesel Brothers
WE : Secret Lives of Women
USA : Dr Steve O
Lifetime Women: Face the family, My Life is a Lifetime Movie
TruTV: Combat Pawn, Hardcore Pawn, Lizard Lick Towing
ABC: Men In Trees, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, The Bachelor, Cougar Town, Batchelorette
NBC: America’s Got Talent, Celebrity Circus (title Song), Last Comic standing
FOX: F Word
CW: America’s Next Top Model
ABC Family: America’s Prom Queen, Cutting edge 2, The Vineyard
BBC: Top Gear
TBS: Cougar Town
FX: Sons of Anarchy
A&E/History: Pawnstars, Swamp People, Counting Cars, Rollergirls, Duck Dynasty, Barter Kings, American Restoration, Shipping Wars, Gene Simmons family Jewels
TLC: Miss America Reality Check (Title Song), LA Ink
Style network: Modern Girls Guide to Life, Dress My Nest, Style Her Famous.
MTV: Jersey Shore, The Hills, Laguna Beach, Road Rules, Newport Harbor, Maui Fever, Making The Band, Parental Control, Made, Exposed, Real World, Real World Road Rules, Two A day, Date my Mom, X Effect, Backstage Pass, Truelife
VH1: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, Celebrity Rehab, Shot
VH1 Classic: Behind The Music (Courtney Love)
Spike: Video Games Awards, Manswers, Disorderly Conduct, Major League Eating Chowdown, Ink Master, Tattoo Nightmares,
CMTV: My Big Redneck Wedding, I Want to Look Like a Cheerleader Again, CMT insider, Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders,
E!: Keeping up with the Kardashians, The Girls next door, Paradise City
Animal Planet: Jockeys
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club
Discovery: Stunt Junkies, Wreckcreation Nation with Dave Mordal, American Guns, Diesel Brothers
WE : Secret Lives of Women
USA : Dr Steve O
Lifetime Women: Face the family, My Life is a Lifetime Movie
TruTV: Combat Pawn, Hardcore Pawn, Lizard Lick Towing
FILM
Jobs, Imaginary Heroes (Sony), Meet Bill, Georgia Rules Trailer (Universal)
Performance
Natalie Imbruglia
Englebert Humperdinck
Paul Young
Lisa Stansfield
Then Jerico
Carol Decker (T-Pau)
Peppercorn (Musical Director – BMG)
It’s Jo & Danny (BMG)
Ashley Hamilton (Sony)
Paul Ryder (Happy Mondays)
Alex Clare
Rachel Stevens
Honeyz (with producer Steve Levine)
Louise Nerding (with producer Steve Levine)
Boy Band: A New Musical (with producer Steve Levine)
Britpack (with producer Steve Levine)
Neville Henry (Blow Monkeys)
Kav & his band of Blaggers
Moshav
Andrea Wasse
Robbie Davis Band
Bird (Janie Price)
Gil Manly
Ian Shaw
The Beat of Memphis (Music from the hit TV show Memphis Beat) with Mark Arnell.
i-94
Danny McGaw
Iggy T & the crazy makers
video jukebox
