BOUND for the Grand Opera House in York in the spring, I Am Kloot will build on the Top Ten success of their Let It All In album with the March 18 release of new single Some Better Day.

John Bramwell’s Manchster trio, who played the Leeds Irish Centre last night, will perform in York on April 16; tickets have gone on sale at £18.50 on 0844 871 3024 or atgtickets.com/york

Some Better Day, a vignette of the minutiae of a life “measured out in coffee spoons”, is accompanied by a “dark comedy of a video”, featuring band members Bramwell, Pete Jobson and Andy Hargreaves and cult English actor and Kloot devotee John Simm at a funeral.

It was directed by Bentley & Stafford, the same team that created both the Hold Back The Night and These Days Are Mine videos from the band’s sixth album. Simm, by the way, follows fellow northern star of stage and screen Christopher Eccleston in featuring in a Kloot shoot: Eccleston appeared in Proof from the Sky At Night album.

For now, you can watch Simm in Some Better Day at vevo.ly/Xcpeq4

Come April 16, Kloot will play all ten tracks off Let It All In plus material from a back catalogue that stretches back to 1999.

“I think we can do that, because we’ve got dedicated fans,” says Bramwell. “I don’t think you have casual I Am Kloot listeners, and we’ve never shied away from the power and emotion you can communicate with music, and that attitude engenders a certain sort of person to come to your gigs. There’s an almost spiritual link with our audiences.”