The moment that ignited the singer, the songwriter, musician and bard in Kieran Leonard was being forced by his mum to watch a David Bowie retrospective on the telly as a 13 year old kid. He wrote 100 songs in 6 months and the die was caste....

With a weird & restless childhood spent living between Ireland, the US and then London and lyrical references drawn widely from Beckett & Burroughs to Shakespeare & Marlowe, his output has much more substantial bite and subsequent gut fill than many of his contemporaries.

Over the last year this kind of smart thinking has put him on the same stage as Bob Dylan, Adam Green & Binki Shapiro, Wolfmother, Jenny O, Billy Bragg, Mick Jones, Carl Barat, Peter Doherty, Graham Coxon, Baba Maal, Keane, Fionn Regan, Josephine & Lee Mavers. More highlights included performances at Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds Festivals in the UK, and being invited to support The Libertines at their reunion concerts in London.

After completing his European tour with Adam Green & Binki Shapiro earlier this year, Kieran has flown out to LA this Summer to record his second album at Ryan Adams’ Paxam Studios. With a sold out tour on the West Coast supporting Wolfmother, and KCRW picking up and playing Kieran’s latest single Hipster Jesus, the changing world of 2013 is about to see a lot more of the remarkable & mercurial talent of Kieran Leonard.