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Details of Matthew De Abaitua’s performances

Bath Litfest

Talking with Tom Hodgkinson at the Bath Litfest
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Campfire at Ditto.tv

A tale about my name and working with Will Self
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The Art of Camping

My new book is published on July 7th by Hamish Hamilton.
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I represented the Idler at Opium magazine’s Literary Death Match and walked away with the coveted winner’s medal. I particularly enjoyed meeting Mercy’s Nathan Jones, and we talked about Liverpool and literature. The story I read was called Beyond Help, a much-edited tale of Sebastian Blast first published in the Idler. Reading this tale...
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The Hedgerow Society

Performance on the January 21st at the Basement in Brighton 8pm
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Komedia with Will Self

Komedia, Brighton, 24th Jan at 7.30pm
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Port Eliot festival

This Summer, I will be performing at a few events at the Port Eliot Festival, 23rd to 25th July. As the proud owner of ticket 001 purchased at the first Port Eliot festival, I have long harboured an ambition to perform there. I was booked to talk a few years ago but floods prevented...
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The Red Men script handover with Shynola

I met Shynola in the bar of the Phoenix on Charing Cross Road to pick up a copy of their script for The Red Men, delivered within a wrapper embossed with their redesign of the Monad logo. Everything within that wrapper was new to me, as I had no part in the process of...
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Judging a very short story competition

The glorious Hilobrow.com are running a very short story competition, for which I am acting as a judge. Readers are invited to submit a short-short (250 words maximum) story about a troubled/troubling superman or -woman. Closing date is 5pm EST on Monday February 15th.
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Will Self on Matthew De Abaitua

Ahead of our gig at the Brighton Komedia, Will Self gives an interview to the Brighton Argus about depression and his co-performer Matthew De Abaitua
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Shynola’s Red Men online scrapbook

Human tracking 08/02/2012
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Looking for patterns. 03/02/2012
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HEAD 03/02/2012
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