18th June - The Windmill, Brixton: Broken Leaf + Ral Partha Vogelbacher + The Pickups

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Do Something Pretty Fanzine
presents...

BROKEN LEAF + RAL PARTHA VOGELBACHER + THE PICKUPS

Wednesday 18th June
8pm - late

The Windmill
22 Blenheim Gardens
Brixton, SW2
020 8671 0700

Admission: �3

BROKEN LEAF
Broken Leaf began life doing solo gigs under the name Teflon Monkey, in much
the same style as Bert Jansch or Nick Drake. A lot of people seemed to quite
like this, and he got the chance to support bands such as Super Furry
Animals, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Hefner, Mountain Men Anonymous, Murry the
Hump and The Webb Brothers, along with a range of diabolical Welsh bands.
Indeed, the Super Furry Animals liked him enough to ask him to record an EP,
entitled 'Farming In Space', with the legendary Gorwel Owen for their Placid
Casual label.

In late 2002, a letter came. Such letters have changed the world, this one
made the monkey angry. DuPont (owners of the Teflon trademark) wrote saying
that it was illegal to use the word Teflon in any other context than the
chemical. On that day, Teflon Monkey became Tephlon Monkey. Then, another
letter came - Tephlon still wasn't quite legal.

So Broken Leaf was born.

He now has another four fearsome musicians playing behind him - his
disgruntled employees. They currently trade a fantastic line in hushed Jim O
'Rourke/Low/Will Oldham-esque quietness, but know how to make noise too in
that Bright Eyes/Dinosaur Jr kind of way.

"Unpretentious, endearing songs comparable to John Martyn, Gorky's Zygotic
Mynci and Nick Drake." BBC Wales

RAL PARTHA VOGELBACHER
Ral Partha Vogelbacher is the recording moniker of Chad Bidwell,
mild-mannered denizen of San Francisco and creator of engaging songs of
gentle oddball whimsy. This London performance is part of Bidwell's first UK
tour to promote the release of his remarkable debut full length 'Kite vs
Obelisk', which has already picked up rave reviews in MOJO, Bang, Careless
Talk Cost Lives and Comes With A Smile and is released on the 7th July
through Monotreme Records.

"Ral Partha may have met such folks as Pavement and David Grubbs on his
travels and borrowed some of their skewed pop secrets." Careless Talk Cost
Lives

"The secret twins of Will Oldham and M Ward hole-up in a secret San
Francisco location, a small-town microcosm where nylon strung guitars set
the tone, and Lullaby For The Working Class are the house-band." Comes With
A Smile

THE PICKUPS
As expected with a band that feature members of Redlands Palomino Co.,
Electric Shocks and Jamie Reid & The Cold Shoulder, The Pickups play loose
and soulful country rock n roll. They steal bits of the usual suspects, like
the Burrito Bros, The Tyde, The Replacements and The Byrds. But they rough
it all up and add a London twist to keep things interesting. With a demo
produced by NME faves Ambershades already making waves, great things are
expected.

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