Fulborn Teversham / Pit er Par UK tour

Polar Bear leader Seb Rochford's new punk-prog-jazz-electronica hybrid, Fulborn Teversham, take to the road in late March/early April, with Chicago trio Pit er Pat and Leeds-based Quack Quack

Wed Mar 28, Exeter, The Cavern [also with Ill Ease]
Thu Mar 29, Leicester, The Basement [also with Dragon or Emperor]
Fri Mar 30 – Carlisle, Brick Yard
Sat Mar 31, Aberdeen, The Tunnels
Sun Apr 1, Glasgow, 13th Note Café
Mon 2 – Newcastle, Cumberland Arms
Tue 3 – Manchester, Klondyke Club
Wed 4 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
Thu 5 – Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery
Fri Apr 6, London, The Luminaire, Kilburn [also with Ill Ease]

FULBORN TEVERSHAM is the mindblowing new group of Seb Rochford, the extraordinarily in-demand and prolific drummer/composer, leader of Mercury Music prize nominees Polar Bear, and winner of BBC Jazz award for Rising Star 2004. The line-up also includes Pete Wareham (Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear) on saxophone, Nick Ramm (Cinematic Orchestra, Clown Revisted) on keyboards, and vocalist Alice Grant (Leafcutter John). The group pursues a more eclectic, less overtly jazz direction than Polar Bear, incorporating elements of electronica, Henry Cow-style prog and post punk. Fulborn Teversham recently played a sell-out show at Leicester’s City Gallery, so expect this gig to be busy. Their debut album, 'Count Herbert II' is available now from Pickled Egg.
http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk/fulbornteversham.htm
http://www.myspace.com/fulbornteversham

PIT ER PAT is the Chicago-based trio of keyboardist Fay Davis-Jeffers, drummer Butchy Fuego, and bassist Rob Doran. Powerful rhythms provide the solid floor for ethereal melodies and layers of textural samples on their most recent album, Pyramids, produced by Tortoise’s John MacEntire, and released on the Thrill Jockey label. Plan B magazine described their music as “punk prog”, and compared them to early Soft Machine, Slapp Happy and Faust. One might also throw a measure of The Raincoats and – vocally, at least - Blonde Redhead into the mix. The end result is a constant propelling of rhythm and melody, steeped in innumerable influences and emotions. Pit er Pat have toured extensively in the US, with the likes of Tortoise and Need New Body. Butchy Fuego released a solo album on Pickled Egg in 2003.
http://www.piterpat.com
http://www.myspace.com/piterpat

The music of Leeds-based QUACK QUACK isn’t easy to categorize. Take a shared spirit of improvisation and a healthy disregard for well trodden musical paths, and you’re moving in the right direction. Like the great rhythm sections of James Brown, Africa 70, Can and Led Zeppelin, Quack Quack operate right next to your heartbeat and your footsteps. They understand the importance of rhythm and use it to get the good chemicals flowing. This is music for dancing and smiling. This three piece instrumental group was formed in Spring 2005 by drummer Neil Turpin (Bilge Pump, Polaris, and sometime HiM), keyboardist Richard Morris and bassist Stuart Bannister.
http://www.myspace.com/thisisquackquack