SOUND KING

This is Gilad. He is sleeping now in preparation for Matjiesfontein. You probably know him because everyone does. He is the moody bassist from The Buckfever Underground . He is also the guy to speak to about sound and music equipment issues at this year's Show 'n Tell. Please email Gil if you have any queries about this.

Matjies 2007 in Pictures

Dear pilgrims. Get a taste of last year's Matjies mayhem in my photo-gallery.
http://picasaweb.google.com/rohanreddy1/Matjiesfontein2007

Faces to Names

So we had a planning meeting last night.
Inge said she was upset because at the Track and Field Party we forgot to announce who the organising committee is, so people can put faces to names. We are an awfully approachable bunch (some claim to be shy) and love to talk and bounce ideas and stuff. So talk and get involved and tell us what you plan to do!

EMAIL US:
Julia 2008 festival director and collaborations hit lady!
John Luke the film director (cc Julia)
Gil the sound director (cc Julia)

Marc all logistics
Jil Accommodation Bookings
Inge all matjies questions -3rd Show'nTell organizing side
www.matjiesfontein.com For pics of town, directions and stuff.

polaroid: Marc and Julia

Matjies Magnified

to do and not to do

Check out the fantastic portrait studio 2007 for images of last years Show 'n Tell.

Here Steph is with local soccer hero Joseph, who works in the Lord Milner Hotel.

Matjiesfontein is in fact a declared heritage site and the antiques are REAL. We are very honored to have free range of this beautiful space. Thank you to the owner of the town, David Rawdon and all the friendly hotel staff!!!
Most of the people who work in the hotel were born in Matjiesfontein and have been working there most their lives.

Please show respect to the space - staff, hotel ghosts, hotel cat, antiques... ie.. Dont go crashing 10 people in a double room.

To find out more info about hotel (can I bring my dog? (no), does my room have a minibar? etc) call the Lord Milner Hotel directly: 023 5613011.
Jil only does the bookings for us and has never been to the hotel - she does not know where room 13 is.
www.matjiesfontein.com
Lord Milner Hotel

If you feel the hotel rates are a little steep for your pocket just remember you will be staying in an antique victoriana building. The hotel is absolute LUXURY to the max.. also remember that you will not be paying to see any of the fantastic contributions so consider your accommodation your expense for the whole Show 'n Tell experience..
BOOK SOON rooms going going.. g o n
last image Eugenio Recuenco

Show N' Tell With Mike( who-ever he is)

Your contribution can be something very simple and does not need to cost much.. just your imagination..

As you know Tania v S will be reading all weekend just like Mike
"I will be reading at the show n tell. I will need a comfortable place from
which to operate... bed, chaise longue or sinking couch...indoors or
outdoors & I am happy to be placed wherever my skills are needed."

Nadine and her gang will also be hosting a pillow fight - bring pillows!



Having a feeling that this is going to be serious fun

tonite only

Kimberly Hotel - Cape Town
9pm onwards
come meet us and find out more re Show 'n Tell
then warm your legs on the dancefloor..

The Lord Milner , proper Victorian style...

" So far, I think we have agreed among us that we want to:
Host an art class with naked figure drawing! :-O "
Nadine


Nadine and her crew are also planning a number of other things.. watch the space for the rest - coming up soon...
Lord Milner Hotel

Miss Texas 1977 - yeeha!

"My name is gene kierman and my sister and I have a band called Miss Texas 1977 and we're going to sing for our supper.

I have no idea where or when but maybe i can get back to you about that.

Gene "

" I am going to be djing, as I did last year - my set will consist mainly of vintage swing, rock 'n' roll and sixties soul."


"Bryn and I also have plans to do a projection of old western films with an interactive element - more details and an example to go on the blog soon. "

Rosemary Lombard
Bryn Divey

S'nT+T'nF

Track'nField + Show'nTell + Dave'nRockstarbdayparty = one very BIEEEEG partytjie!
dont miss it

Veld 'n Flora + Show 'n Tell = Happy Times!

On the very same night as our warm up event, one of our dedicated Matjies is having his Debut Photography Exhibition at the BHC school of Design at the Old Biscuit Mill. Greg Nicolson will be displaying and selling some of his fine botanical photography in order to raise funds for his big walk from the Namibia to Cape Town. The opening is at 18:30 so there is plenty of time to take in the exhibition before heading to town. The exhibition will still be on display the following morning while the Neighbourgoods market is open. Bring a friend and support a worthy cause and fellow Matjie!

To find out more about the exhibition or the walk, click here.

Show 'n Tell + Track 'n Field

The Matjiesfontein organising committee will be down at the Kimberley Hotel on Friday at the Track and Field Party. Come for a drink in the downstairs bar beforehand (9pm onwards) as this will be the perfect opportunity to discuss contributions and have any questions regarding accommodation answered. And if for some awful reason you can't make it this year... come anyway! We'll be your shoulder to cry on. Hope to see you all there!

New York...New York

there's a good chance that my contribution this year will have to be beamed up from new york.
fingers crossed that i'm back in time ....LIVE&DIRECT!

This is Stuart ( in action on the dance floor at Show 'n Tell 2007)

Stuart makes beautiful models - and has lots of great tools for building things..
email him if you would like him to build you something for your contribution

"I can make/build whatever there might be to make for maatjies...so please let me know if anybody require a builder of sorts and I will be happy to help... along with a bottle of gilbeys.
Let me know.
Stuart."




These images by Eugenio Recuenco

"an oddball arts collective"

Our matjie Abbey Hatcher from the U.S of A made beautiful illustrations from Show 'n Tell 2007. Hold thumbs that she can make her way over from there for this years weekend.. we would love to listen to her singing away in the Laird Arms Bar again.
Missing you miss Abbey.

Click on the images to see bigger versions and read the words..

"Matjiesfontein jol sounds great and you know I think im going to go. I was involved in the Afrika Burns thing in the desert last year, and that was the same concept by the sounds... so much fun... should have seen me in my green dress!!! in fact, you can! Ive attached it... ha ha... not a very good pic I know but i lost all the others... " Ross

The bed auction begins!

Post your bids in the comments below...

not only with "oom Kosies" band

Alex van Heerden" South African trumpeter, vocalist, accordionist, producer, composer, historian and explorer " ,will also be preforming a solo set of his own music in Matjiesfontein this year!
www.frontierrogue

"alex van heerden, is one of south africas most interesting names on the electronic scene, with a long history as a professional trumpet and accordion player in the jazz and ethnic music circuit of cape town."
smallfunk

see also : openrecord

Top Photograph from openrecord , middle photograph Eugenio Recuenco
The bottom one taken by me thank you very much.

Hope you are brewing up your contributions.

Julia is the lady to contact regarding your plans. Email her with your questions.

Another great photograph by :Eugenio Recuenco

the rumor is true

The Living Nomad Alex van Heerden will be nomadding to Show 'n Tell this year.

From his Studio in the middle of the desolated South African Landscape Alex will be coming to Matjiesfontein to preform and collaborate with the legendary Oom Kosies Band.


Alex writes is his memoirs: "During my prolonged stays in Europe, I have performed at many wonderful electronic music festivals, and have collaborated with many creative people. Nevertheless, there is a mixture of pettiness, narcissism and pragmatism there which eats away at my own delusions of grandeur, my magical thinking.
Having said this, my homeland of South Africa becomes frustratingly slow paced after a while.
I am therefore, a commited nomad. I live as a contemporary frontier rogue on the edges of the Karoo desert, or in absolute contrast, in the centre of Berlin."

In response to these contrasting feelings , using as " source material indigenous rural and urban sounds and rythms from the western cape " ( www.smallfunk.com ), the album Bushtech was born.
"Here the aesthetic is also one of minimalism: the vast desert landscapes; the fine, sparse 'fynbos' flora...also the general world view, one of timelessness and non-linearity.
We have a traditional rural dance music in the Cape called 'vastrap', and I wanted my music to be a kind of new 'vastrap', funky, rural, organic and techy at the same time...a dance music for the future Karoo!"

Polaroids from last years Show 'n Tell by Anita van Zyl.

FOOD

The food at the Lord Milner Hotel is NOT gourmet.
If you are fussy please bring your own snacks along. There are NO shops in Matjiesfontein and the Hotel is the only place to eat.

"Located at the lobby level, over-looking the entrance of the Hotel, the dining room boasts the same historic ambiance found throughout Matjiesfontein. It is placed in a Victorian setting filled with period antiques, such as the antique clock - one of just three in the world. The unique wooden ceiling detail is supported centrally by a bronze sculpted pillar, a twin of the same pillar found at the Buckingham Palace." more on: www.matjiesfontein.com
Hotel regulations states that dress code for all dinners is SEMI-FORMAL, bring your vintage best.

Photographs by Eugenio Recuenco