Jack Lewis & The Fisherman Three / Al Duvall

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Let's go baboon presents a night featuring three unique and independent American acts together with London's finest, and probably only, Chap-Hop-ist...

JACK LEWIS & THE FISHERMAN THREE - www.myspace.com/thefishermenthree & www.myspace.com/jacklewisband

Fresh from supporting The Cribs & The Thermals on a UK tour, we're very pleased to welcome a special appearance from Jack Lewis & The Fishermen Three. Jack Lewis, you should all know about...The Fisherman Three play mystical country music and blues of every colour. Simon Beins, member of New York City's weird folk trio The WoWz, writes the songs and plays a few instruments, and Raphi Gottesman provides spiritual guidance, friendship, and percussion. Rosina on Every Balcony, their debut album, was written in between WoWz tours with pals Herman Dune, The Wave Pictures, Turner Cody and Lisa Li-Lund.

"A masterful collection of neurotic, ramshackle folk spiked with the bursts of punk" Time Out

AL DUVALL (Brooklyn) - www.myspace.com/alduvall

A welcome return one-off London show for Brooklyn’s ukulele king from the Tom Waits school of darkly comic folk… Unique and intriguing live, Al Duvall combines humour, vaudevillian splendour with mischievously good pop hooks. Al has released several acclaimed albums and …

"I simply can't do it justice in words. It's kind of old fashioned singing and playing with banjo's kazoos and ukulele that could've been made anytime in the last 100 years. The songs are insanely catchy" Norman Records

Sycamore Smith (Michigan) – www.myspace.com/smithsycamore

The first London appearance ever by Sycamore Smith… So-where were you those first few harrowing years of the 21st century? Sycamore Smith was kicking a bass drum and kazooing his nuts off as one-half of the Michigan folk-punk duo The Muldoons. That band broke up, so now Mr. Smith strums his guitar, blows his kazoo and warbles his tunes all by his lonesome. Lyrics have always been Smith's forte, and his scribblings focus on the gruesomely funny exploits of dip-sh*t characters whose twisted histories unfold over the course of countless interconnected songs.

"Sycamore Smith is truly our state's bard and court jester in one. A boot-stomping, kazoo-blowing meld of Jonathan Richman and Elvis Costello on absinthe, he also formed the original Muldoons, the leading light of the U.P. punk scene of the '80s and '90s" - DETROIT METRO TIMES

Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer (London) - myspace.com/mrbthegentlemanrhymer

On a one-man mission to introduce Hip-Hop to the Queen's English, Mr. B is delighted to present Chap-Hop. Aiming to dazzle with dignity, Mr. B takes to the stage with his Banjolele and stiff upper lip to perform ditties of pipe-smoking, high society, Cricket and sexual misadventure, as well as some more well-known pieces from the world of Hip-Hop, re-worked in true Chap-Hop fashion.

Undisputedly the baddest Edwardian in the music scene today, Mr. B’s unique blend of old-school breaks and period hooks is guaranteed to get any joint jumping. Having enjoyed numerous past successes, including a Banjolele performance at Fatboy Slim’s birthday party, being sole guardian of the gramophone at John Peel’s 60th, penning one of the biggest football songs of all time and spending time as a member of cult beat-combo 'The Schooner Boys', he has just released his debut album Flattery not Included.

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Let’s go baboon promoting charmingly off-kilter pop, folk & blues at some of London’s best musical venues since 2004...forthcoming shows:

28 Jan @ The Paradise: Player Piano, Holton’s Opulent Oog, Liam Dullaghan
25th Feb @ The Paradise: Paul Hawkins, Emily Barker, SJ Esau
28th Feb @ The Windmill: Charlie Parr, Danny George Wilson, Ann Scott, Maggie8, Superman Revenge Squad & more...
Future: Last Wednesday of the month @ The Paradise & much more...