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Ming Tea is a faux retro-mod band consisting of Mike Myers, Susanna Hoffs, Matthew Sweet, Stuart Johnson, and Christopher Ward. The band was formed by Myers after he appeared on Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, and appeared in the Austin Powers film series, with the members performing under pseudonyms.
Apr 1, 2021 · In a 2002 interview, conducted only weeks ahead of the release of the third Austin Powers movie Goldmember, the director of four Bond films Guy Hamilton told Matthew Sweet that he saw Powers as “Bond's antithesis”.
May 1, 2017 · On this episode, we're talking with power pop icon Matthew Sweet about his work as part of Ming Tea, the house band for the 1997 Mike Myers' comedy, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this week.
Actor: Austin Powers in Goldmember. Matthew Sweet was born on 6 October 1964 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) and The Game (1997).
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Also in 1997 he appeared in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. [68] as a performer in Austin's band Ming Tea playing during the closing credits of the movie. In 1998, Sweet appeared on an episode of the series, The Drew Carey Show , as a musician auditioning to be in Carey's band.
May 2, 2022 · While Myers played lots of recurring characters on Saturday Night Live, Austin Powers didn’t come from there. The character actually started in Ming Tea, a mock band Myers formed along with a group of musicians, including Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, in the mid-1990s. Hoffs’ husband, Jay Roach, directed all three Austin Powers movies.
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Jul 20, 2009 · Sweet’s breakthrough album was 1991’s Girlfriend, which paved the way for later power-pop classics Altered Beast and 100% Fun. (Read MAGNET’s exhaustive overview of American power pop.) The pair plans to take an acoustic version of their Under The Covers act on the road in September.
