SOUTH AFRICA'S TV WEBSITE
SIGN IN SEARCH MENU
SOUTH AFRICA'S TV WEBSITE


The TVSA Interview: Mathew Moolman

Written by TVSA Team from the blog Interviews on 22 Mar 2009
Favourite this post


mathew_22

Idols' Mathew Moolman is back in Cape Town after his elimination two weeks ago and he's gigging up various places*, including Stardust.

As you probs know, both him and Graeme work at Stardust in Rondebosch, which is a restaurant mixed with a theatre-type setup in the heart of student-vibes. All of the waitrons are musos and actors who serve tables and perform in between.

Mathew's performing on Monday nights after the Idols results show - which the restaurant watches together, under the influence of Happy Hour cocktails.

I've often driven past and thought the place looks like a magical oasis that just happened to land on the side of the main road - particularly as dusk passes by.

mathew_18

I've never been inside before so I hotfooted through to hook up with Mathew who showed us around:

mathew_23

Tashi: Why do you think you were voted off the show?
Mathew: There’s probably a couple of reasons. In the previous week I was in the top half and I think that things can be a bit dodgy with the country having 100% of the vote.

One week someone can decide they’re not gonna watch or vote and that has an impact.  I think people thought “Ag, he’ll definitely be in and make it to the Top 10 so I won’t vote for him this week.”

mathew_6
Not too pointy thankfully. Verry Pocahontas.

Tashi: There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the voting and the fact that most of the black contestants were voted out first - what’s your take on this?
Mathew: I think that the country and those voting should see the winning Idol outside of the competition and not just in this huge stage where you have people paying to scream at you.

They should see it as: “Are you going to buy this guy’s album after the competition? Are you going to buy tickets to their concert afterwards?”

I think that pretty much, right now in the competition, it’s about who you know and how you use the Idols experience.

mathew_10
Mathew sparkling a wineglass, as he does before a shift.

Tashi: Do you mean it’s about how many people you know that are actually voting?
Mathew: Very much - it’s about how many people you know that are willing to vote and invest in you. I think that some people might have fallen out because they didn’t have a big enough network to keep them in. I believe that the competition shouldn't rely on this to find a winner - I would like to have a professional opinion to oversee the process.

I’m just scared of the outcome in the end - people might think that the final winner won because they had the money to get there.

Obviously the public needs to vote but you also need a professional opinion. Yes they do have judges but they don’t have a say.

Tashi: And they’re useless aren’t they?
Mathew: No no, I don’t think so at all. They're really nice people offstage and onstage, I think they’ve made up their minds already about who they’d like to win.

If it’s an extremely bad performance they’ll let the person know but because they don’t have a say I think they like to remain as positive as possible towards the contestants.

Tashi: Often I feel as if I’m watching a different show from them - they’ll go “Oh that was wonderful,” and yet the song was totally out of tune as far as I could hear and I’m like “huh??” - it’s like being in the twilight zone.

The whole business of official-partner radio stations supporting certain contestants and not others - talk to us about that.

mathew_26
Mathew on the Star stage

Mathew: Yes lots people had a problem with contestants complaining because Cameron was backed by two Jo’burg radio stations. People subconsciously agree with a lot of what they hear and see, so if you keep hearing about the same person on a radio station you’ll subsconsciously have them top of mind.

Tashi:
Absolutely - how did it happen? Which station?
Mathew:
They saw Cameron and decided to back him - it was Highveld. What Kfm did was, they ran a poll and said “These are the three contestants from Cape Town, which is best?” - which I think is more fair than saying “These are the five Jo’burg contestants, we’re backing one.”

Tashi:
It’s not fair at all, - what happened behind the scenes about it?
Mathew:
We all knew each other really personally and we saw it as “Whatever happens, happens and we don’t have control of it. “ Cameron didn’t say they must support him, he couldn’t help it so we all just supported each other.

We spoke about it all a lot, we spoke to Cameron about it and we all needed to understand the fact that he couldn’t help it. He’s a very nice guy, it put him in a position where everyone could turn on him.

Tashi:
Who do you want to win? Who do you think should win?

mathew_12
In between our chatting two chick-fans Carla and Amee spotted Mathew and snapped him up to get pics.

Mathew: Those are two completely different questions. I want Thembi to win - her passion to win and her passion for music. She doesn’t even weigh 60 and yet she has this most powerful voice.

Who I think will win: I think it’ll be a guy. I think it’s more likely that girls will vote for a guy than guys voting for a girl. A girl will be like “Ah, he’s so good I must vote for him,” whereas a guy will be “Yes she’s good but I'm not gonna vote for her.”

The proof was in the first rounds of voting where the bottom three were girls. I think girls are definitely the big voters.

Tashi: So who will they vote for?
Mathew: Right now, Jason and Cameron and also Lendel.

Tashi: Why? *more twlight zone*
Mathew: Because Lendel has amazing support in Kwazulu Natal, a lot of backing and he’s using that.

mathew_24
Mathew with fellow Stardusters Grethe, Jackie, Bianca, Wesley and Nikki

mathew_2
The starry signboard outside

Tashi: Did you and Graeme audition together?
Mathew: I auditioned with some of my college friends here and he auditioned while he was on holiday with his girlfriend in Durban.

After the holidays we got back to Stardust and both said “We need to work a lot, we need money for this thing.” We asked each other “Why? What are you doing?” and we where like “What? Me too!”

mathew_25

Tashi: Do you have a girlfriend?
Mathew: Yes I do.

Tashi: Is she an Idols hopeful?
Mathew: No she’s not into singing - she won’t even sing in front of me. She matriculated last year and she’s working in Claremont right now.

Ends

*Mathew's just played a schools festival. A regular on his playlist: da Sugar Man, Rodriguez. He's also started working with Plush producer Matthew Davidson to release a 3-6 track demo album.

For more pics check out Mathew's gallery on Snaparazzi!




8 Comments

mjj
23 Mar 2009 08:32

I have problem with his shoes.....let m read tv rest of the article.....

Paralyzer
23 Mar 2009 08:50

Lol mjj, kinda like mara's environmentally friend,hahahaha

Paralyzer
23 Mar 2009 09:15

Why do people insist on the judges having a say?? Do they remember karin?? Who had a lot of judges influence? *shaking my head*

mjj
23 Mar 2009 12:19

Karin is still the best Idol winner wrt vocal talents as far as I'm concerned.....

mjj
23 Mar 2009 12:22

Karin is still the best Idol winner wrt vocal talents as far as I'm concerned.....

Paralyzer
23 Mar 2009 13:08

She probably is but idols is about the package! I hope they get proper songwriters for da final song....

Paralyzer
23 Mar 2009 13:08

She probably is but idols is about the package! I hope they get proper songwriters for da final song....

Dee
24 Mar 2009 14:24

"Very much - it’s about how many people you know that are willing to vote and invest in you"

Hayi Matthew, I dont know you but I voted for you because you are good!....its really sad that you were voted out....

Thanks Tash.....lovely!!!


Only TVSA members can reply to this thread. Click here to login or register.






LATEST ARTICLES

Anupama Teasers - April 2024

Anupama urges Ankush to have a chat with Romil after catching him watching an adult movie.


New on TV today: Friday 29 March 2024

There's music and lights in SuperCulture on Channel O and the film Wallflower airs on Fuse TV.


Game of Lies Teasers - April 2024

Series finale! The rescue attempt gets underway before a final reckoning.


Gqeberha: The Empire 2 Teasers - April 2024

The Mxenge Hotel turns into a whodunnit. A gunshot. Murder. In which room and by who?


The Wife 3 Teasers - April 2024

Naledi’s sex tape sees the spotlight again and catches her in the headlights.


Skerpioen Teasers - April 2024

A torched boat, poison in wine and youthful memories die when Ferda tries to kill Ahmet.


Imlie Teasers - April 2024

Imlie takes Ashu to the hospital when he falls ill, but kidnappers attempt to abduct him.


My Desire Teasers - April 2024

Kaashvi clears her name and reports Pradyumna's bribery attempt to the police.


New on TV today: Thursday 28 March 2024

Season 2 of Dam premieres on M-Net and Grey's Anatomy 20 drops on Disney+.


Hlomla Dandala confirmed to debut as Caesar on Smoke & Mirrors Season 2

The past collides with soon in the latest on Hlomla's whereabouts.

LATEST SITE ACTIVITY


More activity at TVSA Central



LATEST SOAPIE TEASERS



LATEST SOAPIE TEASERS





×
×

You browser doesn't have Flash, Silverlight, Gears, BrowserPlus or HTML5 support.