JOHN Bramwell, singer-songwriter and frontman of Manchester’s I Am Kloot, is taking a break from band commitments to perform a winter and spring set of intimate solo gigs.

Setting out from the Hebden Bridge Trades Club on January 25, Bramwell is headed for York on April 4, when he will make his National Centre for Early Music debut.

Bramwell has led the melodiously melancholic I Am Kloot to cult status since 1999, picking up a Mercury Prize nomination for their fifth album, Sky At Night, and achieving a number ten chart entry with last year’s Let It All In. Both were produced by Guy Garvey and Craig Potter of Elbow.

The 26-date tour is the only chance for Bramwell fans to buy his solo album, John Bramwell Live At The Trades, a one-hour recording of his legendary gig at the Trades Club last summer.

Bramwell has made regular excursions to North Yorkshire, not only fronting I Am Kloot in York at The Duchess in January 2010 and 2011 and the Grand Opera House last April, but also playing solo at Fibbers in March 2009 and the Frazer Theatre, Knaresborough, in July, 2012.

I Am Kloot headlined the Deer Shed Festival at Baldersby Park, Topcliffe in July 2011 too.

• For tickets, phone 01904 658338 or book online at ncem.co.uk