The Troubador, London
Zulus, London
Ritzy Cafe Bar, Brixton, London
Plan B, Brixton, London
Windmill, Brixton
Water Rats, London
Back2Basix, Jhb
Songwriters' CLub, Jhb
Bassline, Jhb
Indpdt Arm Chair, Cape Town
Oppikoppi, South Africa
Splashy Fen, South Africa
Trading Store, Grahamstown
Dranouter Festival, Belgium
Various venues Paris, Lille
Cafe Barcelona, Pretoria
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Very nice to be amongst Richard Haslop's albums of the year 2007, to be mentioned on the same page as Chris McGregor, LCD Soundsystem, Battles, Radiohead, etc. Quite a thing...
April 2008
Some new Canadian dates added (more US and Canada to follow) and two nice new French blogs:
http://solotape.blogspot.com/
March 2008
Very nice new review in Losing Today magazine here. Some more here.
Letcher US and Canada tour now scheduled for June, and South Africa for August. More gig details about those and others soon. Work's also underway for a new EP out this coming June.
Just been booked onto Saturday 31 May at Wychwood -- just before School of Language!
6 February 2008
New dates and a festival coming soon.
As good a review as we could hope for in this month's copy of the Dutch music magazine, Revolver, who also thought ours one of the mooiste albums of 2007:
29 January 2008
It's the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen for us this coming Monday -- 4th February 2008. We get the nod from this week's Timeout who make us Critics' Choice. Woo. Hoo. The Hoxton B&K is one of our favourite venues -- nice room, nice stage, nice sound. Hope we'll see you there.
Vic and little red coffin outside the Chelsea Hotel as recorded by DEW and his Russian spy cam.
27 January 2008
Happy travels, Goose! See you in Aus. Cheers to everyone who came down on Saturday and made it a great night. Some pics from Tom:
Luke Heeley and other poets have just launched this lovely book of new poems. Highly recommended.
A new year. New songs. New gigs -- starting 26 January with the Spruce Goose Review HERE. We're doing a set at about 8.30pm, so is Bo Derelict and other good things -- come on down...
Some of Dave's Russian camera pics:
Then 4 Feb, a big gig at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen... more details to follow...
Wow! 6 up from McCartney on the eMusic charts in the US!
Huh? What accent?
News from two collaborators :
Christophe Boissiere ('cello on 'Sketch', 'Misheen' etc) just composed and performed a score to this Buster Keaton film at the Cinema Truffaut, Chilly-Mazarin, Paris.
... and Johanna Koivu (violinist Dave met working on a theatre piece he describes as 'free improvisational music soundtracking a pretty ridiculous installation interpretation of a Chekhov play'). Johanna played with us for a year or more in London before heading back to Finland to continue playing with Lauri Tahka and Elonkerjuu, now massive, major label stars of the Finnish folk scene! Go Johanna!
Thanks so much to everyone who came to down to Hoxton last night and bought cds. We're very grateful. Look forward to seeing you all soon. We're playing next at the Borderline, central London, on 2 November.
24 SEPTEMBER 2007
FRIEZE OUT NOW. AVAILABLEHEREAND IN RECORD STORES.
A whole lotta new gigs in three continents up to the right of this. Hope we'll see you at one or more of those.
Feb 2007
Our first single's out soon. We'll be giving out some copies of this and the album at our showcase gig at Terminal Studios on 21 February. Would be great to see you if you can make it down.
January 2007
There are some album reviews below. The International release is now scheduled for April 2007.
Chris Letcher – FRIEZE
***** 5 Stars
This is simply a great album. Truly world-class. Intricate, complex, melodic, ambitious, funny, literate and so damn listenable it’ll make you gasp. How sad then that so few of you will buy it, pretty much no radio stations will play it, corporate backing will be limited to a couple of crates of beer, and only a couple of thousand people will see the incredible live band currently touring the record around the country. What a pathetic state of affairs. Luckily for the former Urban Creeper and partner in crime to Matthew Van Der Want, Sheer Sound have extended their horizons beyond our horticultural backwater and are committed to getting this album into the hands of a market with numbers who will appreciate it. Chris Letcher has spent the 21st century in London and touring Europe with a disciplined, rock solid band that bring the best out of his songs. Probably the best songwriter this country has produced for many years. Let’s hope he gets the rewards he deserves. God bless the bigger picture. (Jeremy Daniel)
We're very grateful to everyone who came to see us in SA. We had a great tour. Pics from that up soon. The album 'Frieze' is out in SA at the moment. It will be available in Europe, the US and Australia from early next year...
30 June 2006
Here's a link to some new VdW/L photos taken by Toast Coetzer:
