The label went on to release albums by acts including
I Am Kloot and Gideon Conn.
Bramwell cut his teeth on the alternative cabaret circuit where he shared bills with comedians Steve Coogan and Frank Skinner and 'punk poet' John Cooper Clarke, before eventually forming
I Am Kloot in the late-Nineties.
With assistance from fellow Mancunians The Whip and
I Am Kloot, Big G's curiously wracked character looms in ballads and heartlifting stomps.
I AM Kloot vocalist John .Bramwell will be doing his solo thing on a tour that stops off at Birmingham Institute on Friday, October 25 and Leicester's Musician on Saturday, December 10.
The Sound of Silence Vol 1 will welcome a clutch of Mercury Music Prize nominated and BBC Folk Award winning artists including John Bramwell (
I Am Kloot) Eliza Carthy and Kathryn Williams.
And, on December 5, John Bramwell, songwriter, guitarist and singer with
I Am Kloot, will performs songs from the Kloot albums, with anecdotes along the way.
Preparations for this weekend's Mouth of the Tyne festival - which features Housemartins and Beautiful South frontman Paul Heaton along with the likes of
I Am Kloot, the Specials, and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - are almost complete.
You never know, he might even Y emerge with a new album under his belt; the songs he writes for his band,
I Am Kloot, often feature the kinds of characters or observations he might come up with after an evening in the boozer.
HOLD | Back e Night,
I Am Kloot's live album is out on April 13.
Other new additions to the event in Beauly, near Inverness, on August 8 and 9 include
I Am Kloot, who will headline the Black Isle Brewery Grassroots stage on the Friday night, The Vatersay Boys, Catfish & The Bottlemen, Nine Below Zero and Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire.
Musicians including Joss Stone, Graham Coxon, Mick Hucknall, Stereophonics, Gabrielle Aplin and
I Am Kloot spent the entire day in the studio "putting their own spin" on the Beatles' original tracks.
AFTER a decade and a half,
I Am Kloot might finally be having their 1 well-deserved afternoon in the sun.