LIVE: KIRAN LEONARD/CULT PARTY – 08/09/2018

– Partisan, Manchester – When I arrive, Partisan offers us a quarter circle of sofas for viewing. Behind that, more chairs of plush and non-plush kinds. Though there’s a sizeable free space on the floor, with people clustering around the edges. I’m admittedly entering with some bias and expectation. I saw Cult Party (the collective […]
On 13th May 2017, the Pope visited Portugal to mark the centenary of the Marian apparitions and Fátima, and to participate in the canonisation of two of the shepherd children she appeared before – Francisco and Jacinta de Jesus Marto. Kiran Leonard went, took many photographs, and made a music video  for ‘Living With Your […]

KIRAN LEONARD SHARES ‘LIVING WITH YOUR AILMENTS’ FILM

KIRAN LEONARD ASKS THE QUESTION ‘COULD SHE STILL DRAW BACK?’ – LISTEN HERE

Kiran Leonard recently announced details of a new album Derevaun Seraun, set to be released Friday 15th September 2017 on Moshi Moshi, and now he shares its opening track ‘Could She Still Draw Back?’. ‘Could She Still Draw Back?’ takes its inspiration from ‘Eyeline’; a short story from James Joyce’s Dubliners, about a young girl […]
Kiran Leonard has recently announced details of his new album Derevaun Seraun, set to be released Friday 15th September 2017 on Moshi Moshi. It is the follow-up to 2016’s acclaimed ‘Grapefruit LP’, his first for the label. Lead single ‘Living With Your Ailments’ (listen below) is inspired by Albert Camus’ 1942 philosophy work ‘The Myth […]

KIRAN LEONARD ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM OUT SEPTEMBER – LISTEN TO LEAD SINGLE ‘LIVING WITH YOUR AILMENTS’ NOW

MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL LIVE AT THE PAVILION THEATRE LINE-UP HERE

Manchester International Festival (MIF) is the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events, staged every two years in Manchester, UK. MIF this year takes place from 29th June to 16th July 2017 at venues all over the city. For MIF’s Live at the Pavilion Theatre at Festival Square, Salford’s foremost festival Sounds […]
Kiran Leonard shares brand new song ‘Cracked Globe’. The recording features Kiran playing a number of guitars simultaneously in a truly unique fashion, as he explains in his statement below, and will be available on an upcoming tape, Monarchs Of The Crescent Pail (out next month on Very Bon Records). Kiran Leonard said of the […]

KIRAN LEONARD SHARES BRAND NEW SONG ‘CRACKED GLOBE’

LIVE: KIRAN LEONARD – 25/08/2016

– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Kiran Leonard is Greater Manchester born and bred, but he is far removed from the brit-pop indie stereotype that many Mancunian musicians have followed. Perhaps it’s because he was too young to have grown up engulfed by the likes of The Stone Roses and Oasis, his style is nothing […]
Today Kiran has announced his new single taken from his forthcoming LP Grapefruit which is released on March 25th via Moshi Moshi. Kiran has issued a long list of influences for the new track: alvarius b; daniel johnston; my mother’s telephone in the 1980s; the guitar playing in sufjan stevens’ “djohariah”; a silver mt zion […]
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KIRAN LEONARD RELEASES NEW SINGLE ‘SECRET POLICE’

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KIRAN LEONARD UNVEILS FILM FOR ‘PINK FRUIT’

Kiran Leonard has announced his biggest ever tour to date in support of his forthcoming new album Grapefruit (out 25th March on Moshi Moshi). Backed by a full band, the jaunt includes headline shows at Soup Kitchen, Manchester (30th March) KIRAN LEONARD LIVE 24 March – Leeds, Brudenell Social TICKETS 25 March – York, Fulford […]
– THE EAGLE INN, SALFORD – Due to late arrival at the Eagle Inn tonight, Kiran Leonard and band have to set up and soundcheck in front of a sold out and expectant room, and it’s both telling and enlightening to see how this unfolds. The standard soundcheck process tonight is both familiar and yet […]

LIVE: KIRAN LEONARD – 13/01/2016