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Mr.Cat & The Jackal

About Me

Check out our video "FRESH MEAT" on MK!!! or on YOUTUBE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIfP6EePbxg&feature=chann el_page
8 April - Corner bar, Acoustic, Durbanville
10April - Interview MFM 92.6 11am
TOUR UP NORTH!!
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15 April - Mystic Boer, Bloemfontein
16 April - Pablo's, Potchefstroom
17 April - Back 2 Basics, Johannesburg
18 April - Sinkshack, Bronkhorstspruit
20 April - Cafe Barcelona, Pretoria
22 April - VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
24 April - Plaasteater, Brackenfell (With Gerald Clark)
28 April - Eendrag Mans koshuis, Stellenbosch (With Gerald Clark)
30 Apri - Bohemia, Stellenbosch
1 May - Villa Pascal, Acoustic, Durbanville
9 May - Dorpstraat Teater, Stellenbosch
Our Album 'Themes & Variations' are now available at the following stores and outlets:
Online at rhythmrecords:
http://www.rhythmrecords.co.za/music/1357/Mr.-Cat-&-The- Jackal/Themes-&-Variations
Stellenbosch:
Hossewaa - Neelsie
Classix on CD
RockRoom
Alice
Durbanville:
Kunskafee / Subterania
Plaasteater (Hazendal Wine Farm)
Cape Town:
Mabu Vinyl
And @ all our gigs!
Straight-
This Mr.Life Guy, he ain't serious he's just joking around with us. He's got his deck of cards, his bag of tricks, his rabbit in a hat. And thats how he always fools us like that.
He walks around with a suitcase and a cane, wearing a trench-coat over his clown suit next to his trusted Doberman. He's got it all figured out but his not gonna tell u. He's got a few things up his sleeves that he might just show you.
But that vicious beast next to him is not to be trusted. He's name is other people and his got razors in his jaws. So don't come too close cause he's got quite a long chain, and Mr.Life will just laugh at you cringing in pain.
So be cautious, and don't try to beat him at his game. you might be sitting with pocket aces but you know he's got five spades. and you can bet your ass its as straight as an arrow and you cant quit while your ahead cause you will never get there.
Theres a few more characters in Mr.life's entourage. He keeps a marquise tent and a caravan full of freaks in his garage. And he travels from town to town in a rusted Ford pickup And he's sure to dazzle sure to entertain where he stops.
Like this one fellow in his crew whose a real slippery cat. he can escape out of anything disappear with a drop of a hat . so bring along your locks, your chains, your hammers and your shackles Mr.Truth is known to take up any challenge.
And theres the trapeze artist Miss.Carma Yea she's a real tease. shes always out to get you except if you keep her pleased. She once walked the tight rope over the grand canyon just for fun yea you know she knows all there is to know about balance.
And there's also three big cats that escaped from a zoo. they once ate the entire audience as well as half of the crew. they will swallow anything whole that u throw in front of them. but Mr.Luck the lion tamer know just how to handle them.
Everybody always says live your life with no regrette's but its not so easy if u think all your actions have effects. all your decisions have got consequence so be sure not to bluff is it a, or b, or c, or d or none of the above.
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Member Since: 6/3/2007
Band Website: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5028798483
Band Members: Gertjie Besselsen: Vocals, Guitar, Accordion, Bouzouki, Kalimba, etc.

Jacques Du Plessis: Vocals, Guitar, Lap Slide, Xylophones, Melodica, etc.

JC Visser: Bass.

Pierre Theron: Drums, Percussion.

Bernard Willemse: Percussion.

Influences: Tom Waits, The doors, Ben Harper, Robert Johnson, Primus, and so on...
Sounds Like: Levi's Original Music Magazine

Mr Cat & The Jackal. Laughing at their nine lives.

Jess Henson - 28 Jul 2008, 00:00

Editor rating: Nine

Eeeeeyargh! For a change, a band with BALLS! And PERSONALITY! I was starting to get tired of the tight-fisted handful of local musos who actually know how to put on a show. This is fresh meat. This is good stiff whiskey – neat; in a messy, frilly frock. This is Mr Cat & The Jackal. This is Cult-Crunchy-Rock.

They’re going to be called everything from Mr Hat And The Hackles to futuristic hillbilly renegades, and smile sardonically right through it. Why? Coz they’re the new cool. Carefully unkempt, musically gifted, and unperturbed by idiots. They’re mixing up musically manicured, hip urban hymns and hurrs with touching, timeless folk flow. They’re writing songs they like for women they love about things like working 9 to 5, and getting away with it. Okay, everybody does that. But not everybody does that WELL . And while you’re still rolling their name around, they have already started tapping, slapping and strumming their acoustic set at the Waiting Room.

Unplugged, Mr Cat And The Jackal are something like a buncha piss-taking pirates meets Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young). If you don’t know why the last name is in parentheses, it’s because you’re too young. I forgive you - on behalf of ageing folk fans everywhere. Gutsy guttural grunt and feathery hollers alternate with incredibly delicate and feminine harmonies couched inside every sort of instrumentation you can carry up The Waiting Room’s narrow, swaying staircase. (It isn’t really a staircase, I know, it’s one of those hangy things they can pull up quickly if they want to. And I bet there’s a trapdoor into the underworld underneath, eh?) Anyway - instruments! Lap Steel, Accordion, Wooden frog (you know, that toy with three tones, sounds like an amphibian going ‘rebbit, rebbit’? That one) – they use them all - Bongo drums, guitar, and pauses.

Yes! They know about silence in composition. About measure in full song. They know about dropping you in the middle of a raucous acoustic rant. They know about pulling up abruptly so that you let that breath you’ve been holding for the last thirty seconds out. They know about spiralling melodies, building tension, and breaking it. They’re fun, they’re wry, they’re wiser than they let on, and they’re going to be cult heroes before very long.

But it won’t change their hairdos or their whiskers. I guarantee you. Watch out for the next review of them fully plugged. And watch your step while you’re Waiting!

http://www.levi.co.za/musicmag/Category/Detail/Detail.aspx?I D=691

MR. CAT & THE JACKAL - THEMES & VARIATIONS

You can buy the 'Themes & Variations' Album at rhythmrecords online:

http://www.rhythmrecords.co.za/music/1357/Mr.-Cat-&-The- Jackal/Themes-&-Variations
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

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Posted by on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:36:00 GMT

DEMO ALBUM AVAILABLE

Our demo album is now available at our shows. It features four of our songs, 'Phat Chance', 'Arcenal of Bliss', 'Favourite Hysteria'  and 'Themes & Variations'. CD's price : R 35.00
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:47:00 GMT