W.A.T.

In 1982 richt Ad van Meurs het redelijk succesvolle W.A.T. op. Met deze waveband, waarin ook zijn partner Ankie Keultjes speelt, maakt hij drie albums. Het trio valt op door een apart verbond van synthesizer en (slide)gitaar. Ad and Ankie would later continue as The Watchman.

Scheduled
Friday, 2 September 1983, "Kleine Zaal", 22:00 - 22:45

Line up
Ad van Meurs – guitar, voice; Ankie Keultjes – synthesizer, voice; Frank van den Nieuwenhof – bass

Set list

01 Vive la vie

02 Artlovers

03 Sizzored and homesick

04 Get famous

05 Defreeze

06 Very happy

07 Ivanhoe

08 City Indians

09 Shall I go, I go restless

10 Get famous (encore)

("Likely setlist"... Thanks to Frank van den Nieuwenhof)

Recording
I have a radio recording of 02 and 05, get them here: http://www.wiels.nl/blog/index.php?entry=entry070127-112746.

Frank van den Nieuwenhof has just uploaded remastered versions of a number of tracks (01, 02, 04, 06 and 07) recorded at Pandora's onto the "World According To" Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/worldaccordingtonl

Other info
W.A.T. (from World According To) were a Dutch trio based on sequencers, slide guitar and a thin female voice. They played on Pandora's Music Box, a new wave festival in de Doelen in Rotterdam, 2-3-4 September 1983. A lot of new wave acts played there and a lot is broadcasted on Dutch public radio (and I taped it): Siouxsie & Banshees, W.A.T., Durutti Column, Die Haut (& Nick Cave), Howard Devoto, S.P.K., The Box, Peter Hammill, Skeleton Crew, Jah Wobble, Spear of Destiny, Clock DVA, Armoury Show, Kowalski, Danse Society, Fad Gadget, TC Matic. (http://www.wiels.nl/blog/index.php?entry=entry070127-112746)