text: Ian Matthews (born 20 June 1971) is an English musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band Kasabian.
  Early career
  Matthews interest in drums was first started by his babysitter, a friend of his dad, whose family had a drumkit, he also played piano as his dad was a pianist but "realised that I wasn’t interested" He also took drum lessons from a local session drummer who taught him to play in a jazz style with brushes. Matthews played his first gig with his dad’s social club gig when their drummer was ill, he "got £5. From that point I was hooked"
  Matthews played gigs with his dad for several year during school and then joined a Bristol drum corps called The Troopers when he was ten, he also did some school orchestras and in the band of the Avon and Somerset fire brigade, playing military type stuff and lots of reading. He also did wedding gigs and jazz gigs.