Ready for the return of Kloot

THAT his gigs this weekend are his first in Ireland in seven years is a shock to John Harold Arnold Bramwell, the song-writing linchpin of the enigmatic I Am Kloot.

“Time seems to speed up, as well,” the 50-year-old says. “I’ve noticed that as you get older. I was thinking it was about two or three years, but is it really that long?”

That same period was a high point for the band. Their 2010 album, Sky at Night, was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize and their sixth studio album, 2013’s Let It All In, gave I Am Kloot their highest UK chart placing.