Their drummer Bulle (born 1962) had been in the punk group, Betong Hysteria, and the art/ska band, Løver og tigre (Lions & Tigers).
In June 1989, Matchstick Sun attended the New Music Seminar in Manhattan, New York, United States, and some attention in the Norwegian press.
Matchstick Sun was invited to the annual EBU Rock Festival: a three-day event organized by the European Broadcasting Union in Cork in Ireland and aired by public service radio stations all over Europe.
Bulle kept on playing with The Lust-O-Rama (1989–93), the garage rock band he had started with vocalist Arne Thelin from The Cosmic Dropouts after they met at the New Music Seminar in New York in 1989.
Vocalist Ivar Eidem released his one solo album Missions of a Clown in 1996 on Oh Yeah!, and was awarded the Norwegian Grammy for Best Male Artist.