I'm happy to announce that I'll be co-hosting this years OJ ALL DAY festival with Mr. Jon Berger.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out to the shows and helped make them happen. As usual it was an incredible experience. Hope to see you all again in the Spring with Schwervon! In the mean time, it's nice to be back home in New York nursing my jet lag & tour blues with a fat cup of black coffee and little blogity blog catch up.
Check it out: http://matthew-roth.livejournal.com/
Putting the finishing touches on the new Schwervon! this weekend and I feel a couple of new MMM tunes just about to squirt out as well. Stay tuned.
love
Matt

Hey everyone. I'm just about finished booking my Fall European Major Matt Mason USA solo tour. But I'm still looking to fill a couple of dates in France. Mainly October 18, 20, and 21st. So if there are any French friends that might wanna put on a show together or have a suggestion for cities or venues for these dates then hook a brother up and drop me a line!!!

Merci

FRANCE

wed Oct 15 Paris TBC

thur Oct 16 Toulouse, L'épisode

fri Oct 17 Bordeaux @ Saint Ex

sat Oct 18 - ????

sun Oct 19- Nantes @ Violin Dangue

mon Oct 20- ????

tues Oct 21- ???

wed Oct 22- Lille TBC

I quit smoking and started a blog on livejournal. Gonna try to do it every day.
http://matthew-roth.livejournal.com/

Idle hands are the Marlboro's play things...

My friend Evan just posted this from my last Sidewalk show. Yikes!

Oh yeah I forgot to mention it officially here. I finally finised my latest little group of songs. The album is available on OJ and it's called "Senile Pie Strive Pip Melancholy." It was the subject of an undecipherable SPAM email that I got one day that I briefly mistook for some kind of coded message!!

I went to go see Les Miserables with my sister on Thursday. She came to visit for a few days. It was okay. I thought the first act was much more compelling and the last act "the battle" was actually kind of boring. I saw Daoud on the way to the CoOp the next morning and it reminded me of a conversation that we had when we went to go see Avenue Q which is another musical right now that is sort of an "Adult" version of Seseame Street with puppets. It's actually really good. We were talking about how most modern or maybe post modern musicals seem have to involve some kind of self effacing or ironic quality to get over the cheese factor of people just randomly bursting out into song. It seems like maybe Les Mis could be one of the last broadway musicals void of any of this irony. I'm not really sure what I like better. But I did get the feeling like I was watching a soon to be extinct animal or something like that. Both of the shows actually deal with very timeless themes one about redemption and the other more about purpose. I'm really not a fan of Broadway but it was nice to see a piece that was not afraid to be full on and romantic.

Wed july 11th
@ ABC Cafe
308 Stewart Avenue
Ithaca, NY
w/ Dufus, and Lars Din
show starts at 9pm.
(donations at the door)

Thurs July 12th
@ Boulder Coffee Co.
100 Alexander Street
Rochester, NY
w/ Dufus and NO (featuring brian from rochester band
Gaybot)
nite starts at 8pm.

Friday July 13th
@ Ironweed House
98 Grand Street
Albany, NY
nite starts at 8pm
(total house party mania! this might be the show
Nan plays the drums with her butt)

Sat. July 14th
@ Fishtown Art Space
50 Maplewood Avenue
Gloucester, MA
(Bands start at 5pm - we go on at 6ish)
this show is at a teen arts center !
it..s also about an hour from boston!

Sat. July 21st
@ The Rug Room
266 rt 32 N
New Paltz, NY
Dave End, Schwervon! and Eric Ayotte
Show starts @ 8 (after the rosendale street festival)

Why does local news suck so much? I mean there's so much cool stuff going on and all they ever talk about is car wrecks and The Sopranos. It's so sad. And now it's like the silly banter between the newscasters takes up a quarter of the program. Is it really so hard to make the news interesting and truly imformative? Radio is doing it pretty well. I love listening to WNYC.