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June/July 2008:
you can order "Matthew van der Want: best and worst" - 20 tracks (including 6 new songs ) for R150 by emailing mvdwant@hotmail.com
Matthew van der Want will be playing at Grahamstown 2008 at the Old Mutual Acoustic Encounters Taphuis Venue with Sean Strydom and Harris Tweed on 2, 4 and 5 July 2008.
Then on 17 July (Thursday) at Cafe Barcelona with Josie Fields and Andy Lund
and on Friday 18 July at Trotters Pub in Boksburg with Josie Fields and Andy Lund
And again with Josie and Andy on Saturday 19 July at Back2Bassix
And a weekend in Cape Town:
15 August 2008 at the Kuns Kafee Durbanville - 830pm
16 August at the Mercury 930 pm
Here's 94.7 Highveld Stereo's Zane Derbyshire's response to my request to playlist some of the new tracks off "best and worst":
From: Zane Derbyshire [mailto:ZaneD@highveld.co.za]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 09:21
To: Matthew van der Want
Subject: RE: "dream of you" single off best and worst of Matthew van der Want CD
Hi Matthew
We did receive it and I have actually listened to the whole album and quite enjoyed it.
That said, we did not think that any of the tracks were suitable for playlisting on on 94.7. They are just not in format for the station.
RegardZ"
Matthew van der Want, Josie Fields, Andy Lund (a 3 band love-fest)
Thursday 17 July 2008 at Cafe Barcelona, Pretoria
Saturday 19 July 2008 at Back2Basix
Matthew van der Want - CD launch of the "best and worst of Matthew van der Want" with special guest Sean Chris Strydom. Back2Basix Sunday 25 May 2008 R40 cover charge
email mvdwant@hotmail.com to order the CD for R100
Matthew will perform with Harris Tweed at the Grahamstown Festival - 1,2 and 4 July 2008 at the Old Mutual Acoustic Encounters venue
Matthew van der Want
!!LIVE!!
New songs
(and some old ones for the diehards, if any...)
24 November 2007 - The Bohemian, Richmond with the Black Hotels and The Bojangles (DJ afterparty, yes baby)) - 9pm Sharp - R40
1 December 2007- Back2Bassix, Perth Road, Westdene (with support act) 9pm Sharp - R40
Tell your friends
Matthew van der Want on myspace
Matthew van der Want Band is going well - Paul Rego drums, Sean Strydom- Bass/vocals, Don Campbell - Electric guitar/vocals Matthew vd Want - acoustic/vocals
New Matthew van der Want song "Mister Manners" at www.myspace.com/matthewvanderwant
(Other songs are also there for your listening pleasure)
Review of van der Want / Letcher at Back2Bassix on Friday 30 March 2007 here
"I'm starting a band, baby. Starting a band..." Gigs with Chris Letcher got me all inspired again and made think about some priorities. First rehearsal Monday with Paul, a drummer and bass player Nathan (ex Amersham now with Cassette). I'll keep you posted.
Van der Want/Letcher at Back2Bassix / Auckland Park / Westdene on FRIDAY 30 MARCH 2007 21h00 and on 3 April 2007 at Cafe Barcelona Pretoria
Chris Letcher's website has details of a tour of his band to SA in November and the release of their CD. See www.letchermusic.com and www.myspace.com/letchermusic
I found this in a review of the Lloyd Cole show..."When [Lloyd Cole] first takes the stage after support act Matthew van der Want’s intense-attorney-in-deviant-acoustic-guts-spilling-fetish routine, he looks like a roadie come to give the amplifier knobs a final polish."
I thought that my gig and that of Lloyd Cole gelled well together to be the most uninspiring evening I've got through in ages.
Matthew van der Want will open for Lloyd Cole on Monday 3 July 2006 at the Bassline, Newtown, Johannesburg - time to be advised.
Chris Letcher's band Letcher will come out to SA in November 2006. Sources close to Letcher intimated that the chances of van der Want joining in the fray for at least one or two gigs were "quite good".
Matthew van der Want and Anika play at Cafe Barcelona, Elardus Park Shopping Centre, Pretoria on Saturday 19 November 2005. To book call 012-345 3602
More gigs to be confirmed. Will let you know the details when they're available.
4 October 2005 NEW CD - "CASUAL KILLING"
You can order a copy of this CD by sending your postal address to mvdwant@hotmail.com and payment arrangements (R100) can be made from there.
Chris recorded his songs in London and Matthew his in Johannesburg. Just before we toured in September 2005, Chris came out to South Africa and we finished it off.
We decided to forgo the record company route. Too depressing. It will not be available in the shops. We might put it out "properly" in the future...
Thanks for buying it at the gigs. It is because of you that were able to afford R400 bottles of 12 year old whiskey throughout the tour and Matthew is now using some of the proceeds to attend smokenders. So you have helped save a life. Feel proud.
3 October 2005 Aw. Our tour ended. We believe it was a roaring success and shall do it again next year. It was very good to have new songs to play to you. Thanks to all those who bought "Casual Killing" CDs and who came to the gig. The city of the Tour Award goes to Cape Town for disspelling our rude notions about you and coming out in the rain.
A quality recording was made of the two Cape Town gis. Hopefully, this will result in the release of a live van der Want / Letcher album fairly soon - somrthing we've been wanting to do for a long time. Will let you know.
15 September 2005 Chris arrived 14 September. We'll be hard at work over the next few days getting a home-made recording ready for the gigs. Probably only ready by the 21st September gig at the Bassline. We are looking forward to Saturday at the Songwriters' club. (Interesting idea - a songwriters' club. We're not member of this particular one, but recall membership fees of songwriting clubs in general being quite high.) That said, cover for Saturday's gig is a mere R40. Bring your friends, please.
VAN DER WANT / LETCHER SEPTEMBER 2005 TOUR DATES
saturday 17 sept - songwriters' club - newtown johannesburg
wednesday 21 sept - bassline - newtown johannesburg doors open 8 pm
thursday 22 sept - cafe barcelona - pretoria
saturday 24 sept - jammit dammit - durban
wednesday 28 sept - the trading store - grahamstown
friday 30 sept - independent armchair theatre - Cape Town
saturday 1 oct - independent armchair theatre - Cape Town | 
