This Port Elizabeth based band has been around in various guises and under various names, playing a huge variety of music, for the past few decades.
They re-invented themselves, yet again, into an Afrikaans showband, and began writing their own original Afrikaans rock, dance music, with a grungy edge. The album was recorded at Studio 5, in P.E. It was recorded between April and July 2006 and had it’s P.E. launch in November 2006, and national launch at the National Arts Festival in Oudtshoorn in April 2007.
MATTHEUS have been featured on DSTV channel Kyknet (Kwela 30/05/2007). The band's name is actually the surname of all the members, being Deon Mattheus on guitar & vocals, his brother Kevin on drums & vocals, Deon’s daughter Michelle on Keys, sax, concertina & vocals & Kevin’s daughter Jo-Anne on bass guitar & vocals. The actual creator of this band was Neels Mattheus (boeremusiek icon of the 90’s who won the very first T.V Boereorkes competition in 1980 and never finished worse than second in his other two competitions.
Deon & Kevin both spent most of their army stint in the S.A.D.F. Entertainment group in Pretoria, where they met & performed with most of the who’s who, at the time in numerous T.V. appearances. Deon went on to play in Jo’burg with Lincoln / Bite at the Bella Napoli and at various venues in Durban, Cape Town and P.E. Upon his return to P.E., he and Kevin joined forces in a coverband called STEAL, and played at one of the pro venues in town for about 5 years. Since the nineties they have been playing in tribute shows and at corporate functions in and around P.E. Last year after Deon's first visit to KKNK he was inspired to write his first ever Afrikaans song and out of this came the album 'So Ja..!'
MATTHEUS, a band that has been together for only 8 months, already have a CV that would impress anyone. Apart from the usual gigs they have shared the bill with such luminaries as Steve Hofmeyr, Jaques De Coning and Heinz Winckler, and have booked quite a few appearances at festivals for the next couple of months.
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