(Thurs 4 October / 8pm / £5 advance, £7 on the door)

Chapelier Fou has been described as having musical schizophrenia, apt if you consider his names translates from French as the Mad Hatter, but I've been telling people he's somewhere in between Four Tet and Yann Tiersen (they share a label, Ici d'ailleurs), with a bit of The Books thrown in, dissolving the boundaries between electronica, cinematic classical music and jaunty European folk. If nothing else, the sounds Louis Warynski makes with violins, guitars and vintage synths are beautiful, full of sweeping emotion, string-led wistfulness, scratchy old samples and twinkling xylophone melodies. If you've never heard of Chapelier Fou before, get thee to the internet and check him out - he's coming all the way to us from France so you might not get to see him in Bristol again for a while!

Support comes from Cat Green Bike - minimal micro-epic ukelele sub-balladry brimming with the wry witticisms of a closet English eccentric - and Lonely Tourist, a Glaswegian import with a guitar, and sometimes a beard.

http://www.chapelierfou.com
http://soundcloud.com/cat-green-bike
http://lonelytourist.bandcamp.com