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David Thomas Broughton, Sam Amidon, Doveman - Liverpool Thu 22nd January 2009 Rodewald Suite Philharmonic Hall Hope Street Liverpool L1 9BP The Local and CMN Tours are excited to present an 11 date live tour of the UK featuring collaborations, instrument sharing and other musical comradery between David Thomas Broughton, Doveman (aka Thomas Bartlett) and Sam Amidon, whose haunting performances will drift, interweave and interrupt each other, in a continuous flow of instrumentation, experimentation, lyrical delicacy and magical layers of guitar, banjo, piano and fiddle-playing, looping pedals and samples.

Taking in the length of the country and hosted by The Local’s Howard Monk, the tour, which takes place from 21 – 31 January 2009, will find itself in an unusual array of venues and lesser trodden locations, including pubs and club houses, a Rochdale bowling club, a Manchester church and the old coal vaults of Coventry.

Recorded in a church in Leeds, David Thomas Broughton’s entrancing debut ‘The Complete Guide to Insufficiency’ spreads 5 tracks across 40 minutes, developing his eerie folk songs into epic mantras on death, war, love, and sex and captures the controlled chaos of David’s live show, filled with ghostly reverb, solemnity and touches of unexpected, deadpan humour.

Using simple tools - an acoustic guitar, some looping pedals, an old radio – David Thomas Broughton has created a singular statement of purpose and artistic intent. Long after “freak-folk” is no longer a trend, listeners are pulling ‘The Complete Guide to Insufficiency’ off the shelf.

Sam Amidon was raised in Brattleboro, Vermont by folk-musician parents and  plays fiddle, banjo, and guitar.  In 2007, he released ‘But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted’ under the moniker Samamidon, a collaboration with Thomas Bartlett / Doveman. In March 2007, he premiered the Nico Muhly composition ‘Two Sisters’ at Carnegie Hall. His most recent album of songs is 'All Is Well,' produced & recorded in Iceland by Valgeir Sigurdsson (Bjork, Bonnie Prince Billy) and featuring orchestral arrangements by Nico Muhly. The album has received much acclaim including from Rolling Stone, who said, "in an era of overheated Nick Drake comparisons, Amidon is eerily close to the real thing."

26-year old Thomas Bartlett aka Doveman is one of New York's most in-demand keyboard players, collaborating & touring with artists such as Martha Wainwright, Antony, David Byrne, Bebel Gilberto & Yoko Ono. Doveman is Bartlett and his select group of collaborators, who bring to mind artists such as Frederic Chopin, Cat Power, Keith Jarrett, Talk Talk, and Chris Whitley. Doveman does not rehearse, but they sure can play.