On Saturday 4th April at The Bowery, Roxburgh Pl, Edinburgh for £5 only.....

Fife Kills: is very proud to present:

BENJAMIN WETHERILL

Benjamin Wetherill is from Leeds, and we're delighted to announce not only his first Edinburgh show, but his first with a band behind him. Signed to two of the most discerning transatlantic indie labels: Red Deer in Manchester (George Thomas, Sara Lowes) and Ba Da Bing in New York (Beirut, Adrian Crowley, James Orr Complex), Ben creates wonderfully eccentric music, drawing from traditional English folk, Soft Machine esq-psychedelia and Noel Coward-era music hall.

2008 saw the release of Ben's debut LP "Laura":

"...Recorded in a disused 19th-century palace on the outskirts of Budapest, Benjamin Wetherill's first album captures the intimacy of a delicate folk idiom along with the innovation of original technique and approach. Wetherill, a Leeds native who has been making his own music for almost a decade, plays intricate fingerpicked guitar passages, and sings with a lilting style unlike anybody recording today. A startling listen for anyone looking for truly talented musicians wholly focused on their own vision.

Jeremy Barnes, A Hawk and a Hacksaw's inventive songwriter, heard Wetherill while touring and offered to produce his debut album. Barnes enlisted his Hun Hangar Ensemble of Hungarian musicians to assist in the recording, delicately expanding Wetherill's songs to include a feather orchestra of light touches and subtle accents, blending sentiments of pre-war European jazz with early English pathos.

The result is Laura, an album as emotional as it is detailed and fragile. Folk music has enjoyed a resurgence of late, but with Wetherill one always seems to get something refreshingly different - true, original music in a manner never quite done before, with the capacity to combine a mystifying sense of the early 19th century with a 20th century outlook. The effect is startling. "

With two Fife Kills: records superstars in support:

THE WEE ROGUE

Jamie Wallace O'Connor (to his friends) is arguably one of Scotland's most underrated contemporary folk songwriters. A former chess champion and maths prodigy, Jamie hails from the Kingdom of Fife and creates a spidery, wonderfully structured post-folk which owes as much to Mogwai as it does to John Fahey, hung together with the sweetest Fife lilt this side of King Creosote. Two years after their show together in Edinburgh (The Wee Rogue's stage debut), David Thomas Broughton recently called Jamie's music "beautiful" on his blog (http://www.davidthomasbroughton.co.uk/news/). Not to be missed.

www.myspace.com/theweerogue

plus

ROB ST.JOHN

Named in the Skinny's "One's to watch in 2009", RSJ and his expanded backing band (saw, harmonium, double bass, autoharp, cello, drums) are celebrating the critical acclaim and near-sell out of 2008's "Like Alchemy EP" with a final Edinburgh show before taking the summer off to work on new songs. Expect to hear some of the new tunes here.

http://www.list.co.uk/article/16225-exposure-rob-st-john/With two Fife Kills: records superstars in support:

THE WEE ROGUE

Jamie Wallace O'Connor (to his friends) is arguably one of Scotland's most underrated contemporary folk songwriters. A former chess champion and maths prodigy, Jamie hails from the Kingdom of Fife and creates a spidery, wonderfully structured post-folk which owes as much to Mogwai as it does to John Fahey, hung together with the sweetest Fife lilt this side of King Creosote. Two years after their show together in Edinburgh (The Wee Rogue's stage debut), David Thomas Broughton recently called Jamie's music "beautiful" on his blog (http://www.davidthomasbroughton.co.uk/news/). Not to be missed.

www.myspace.com/theweerogue

plus

ROB ST.JOHN

Named in the Skinny's "One's to watch in 2009", RSJ and his expanded backing band (saw, harmonium, double bass, autoharp, cello, drums) are celebrating the critical acclaim and near-sell out of 2008's "Like Alchemy EP" with a final Edinburgh show before taking the summer off to work on new songs. Expect to hear some of the new tunes here.

http://www.list.co.uk/article/16225-exposure-rob-st-john/

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This show will be 1945 for 2000 start. All artists will have records on sale on the night