Silver Birch

Silver Birch is a project intended as the successor to Acoustic Ladyland, the jazz fusion ensemble active since 2001. This concert brings its long-delayed music to Brudenell Social Club in Leeds.

Acoustic Ladyland, formed in 2001, began with the album Camouflage in 2004, released on Babel Label. The group was described as a punk-jazz band, and in the early 2010s it planned to return under the name Silver Birch. That incarnation recorded an album, High on the Western Hill, with Pete Wareham, Chris Sharkey, Seb Rochford and Ruth Goller. Before the record was issued, the project stopped, and Wareham went on to found Melt Yourself Down.

The album has now been released by Kit Records. For this concert, a new line-up of Silver Birch will perform its material live for the first time, with drummer Max Hallett, who also plays as Betamax with The Comet Is Coming, joining the group.

Brudenell Social Club is a concert and performance venue in Burley, Leeds. The evening is aimed at listeners who followed Acoustic Ladyland's punk-jazz work and at anyone interested in the band's unreleased-until-now material.