Kiran Leonard’s unique and ambitious body of work spans more than a decade of releases on labels such as Moshi Moshi and Hand of Glory, limited-run noisy DIY fare, and everything in between. The adolescent guitar/chamber prog of early records such as ‘Bowler Hat Soup’ (2013) and ‘Grapefruit’ (2016) earned praise from Pitchfork, the Guardian and the Quietus, and produced several BBC 6Music-playlisted singles. More recent work has seen Kiran attempt to synthesise interests in situated/home recording, collage, his live practice, and a combination of songcraft with graphic scores, as documented on the monumental (i.e. two-hour-long) and abstract ‘Trespass on Foot’ (2021) and ‘River Holds Peace, Some Live’ (2023), a collection of new and old material arranged for an ensemble of multiple electric guitars, cittern and double bass.

Returning after half a decade of songs without choruses at the ripe old age of 28, Kiran released his new album ‘Real Home’ on Memorials of Distinction this past April, which was named by the Guardian among the best albums of 2024 so far. Preceded by two singles, ‘Treat Me a Stranger’ (a 44-second country-tinged ode to domesticity and the Singing Brakeman himself, Jimmie Rodgers) and ‘My Love, Let’s Take the Stage Tonight’ (a more standard-length three-minute quote “guitar pop banger”), ‘Real Home’ is the most concise and well-honed summary so far of his multivalent oeuvre (in other words, it’s his best!) Following a sold-out show at Windmill Brixton in early March and a headline tour in May — whose Glasgow date earned a five-star review in the Skinny — he will head out once again to a handful of basements and function rooms with a new band featuring members of caroline, Shovel Dance Collective, and Historically Fucked.

“Unforgettably gorgeous. Real Home is one of his most easily lovable LPs, full of beautiful string arrangements and stirring dynamics, but there’s nothing ordinary about the directions his songs take.” - The Guardian (The best
albums of 2024 so far)

“There's always a sense that a deluge of emotion and noise is right around the corner ... in all its beguiling brilliance, volatility, fitfulness and flux.” - The Quietus

“An album of dizzying detail, delivered in a manner more open and accessible than pretty much anything in Leonard’s excellent back catalogue. It is spiky and literate and humane ... Real Home is an object lesson in combining experimental substance with accessible style.” - KLOF Mag on ‘Real Home’

“His new record Real Home is the best thing I've heard all year ... good God, him and his band are incredible tonight ... The sound has the dexterity and angular playing of math-rock but is so much more loose and ragged, with a swooning Dirty Three romanticism at its core.” - ***** The Skinny (live review)

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DIRECTIONS

Bristol Cruising Club
Sabrina 6 (barge)
Redcliffe Backs
Bristol
BS1 6NE

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-- There is a bar on the boat + old pub prices

** The ticket includes 24hr membership to the
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