melkweg

The five gigs that we were looking forward to playing in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Nijmegen and Amsterdam this month are now postponed until next year. We are working with our booking agent re-scheduling the gigs and will be back in early 2008.

The reason for this is John has damaged his vocal chords over the course of the U.K. shows we have just done. He was suffering with a cold and sang through a gig in Manchester lasting just under two hours. The next night at 93 Feet East in London; the first of a three gigs in a row in the same venue, we discovered at sound check that John’s voice was totally shot. We played half an hour and then had to apologise to the audience and re-schedule that gig for another date. The next day a Harley Street doctor diagnosed John as having scraped has vocal chords and gave him a steroid spray to be used only once. This spray freezes the wound so it does not begin to heal. We proceeded to play the next two nights in London.

The doctor ordered John to rest his voice. After the spray wears off the wounds on his vocal chords will scab over and heal. It is important that his voice is not strained when the healing process is taking place as it could cause permanent damage. The doctor recommended at least three weeks rest.

People who had tickets for the show on 27th November gig, can now attend the re-scheduled show at 93 Feet East on Tuesday 18th December. Original tickets are still valid, just bring your credit card on the night and your name will be on the list. If you do have any questions please contact the venue.

We have not experienced this turn of events before and have never missed a gig due to anything. So we would like to apologise to everyone who was coming to the gigs and hope to see you in the new year.

As soon as we found out about John’s throat our agent was straight onto the promoters to re-schedule the gigs. Due to the availability of the venues it looks like we will be seeing you in mid to late February 2008.

Please keep on eye on our websites for the new dates to be confirmed and contact the ticket agency as regards your ticket that of course will be valid for the re-scheduled gigs.

Ps. We are very sorry about this and were looking forward to the gigs. We have a new LP and will be playing at least 10 new tunes at the gigs in February. So until then have a good xmas holiday and we will see you soon.

Love from I am kloot
Pete, John & Andy

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De bandnaam ‘I Am Kloot’ zal menige Nederlander zachtjes doen gniffelen. De Britse band uit Manchester met de voor Nederlanders nogal ongelukkig gekozen bandnaam maakt echter fijne, breekbare, poëtische pop/rocksongs die het gegniffel al snel zal doen verstommen. Middels het debuut ‘Natural History’, de titelloze opvolger en de derde plaat ‘Gods and Monsters’ heeft de band in haar zesjarig bestaan al een verbluffend oeuvre opgebouwd.

Stuk voor stuk pareltjes met goed verzorgde gitaarmuziek en mooi verzorgde zang die stikt van de poëtische metaforen. In Engeland werd de band als één van de vaandeldragers van ‘the new acoustic movement’ beschouwd onder het motto ‘Quiet is the new loud’. Live kan de band zowel ingetogen en romantisch zijn als overtuigend rocken. Begin volgend jaar komt de opvolger ‘I Am Kloot Play Moolah Rouge’ uit, en als klap op de vuurpijl wordt het album alleen vanavond alvast exclusief in Nederland verkocht!

I Am Kloot live at Melkweg- November 2006