‘I had no plan. Just total scorched earth’: how Kiran Leonard survived teen success to make songs of full-body joy
Hailed as a prodigy at 16, the Saddleworth singer-songwriter was patronised in the press and lost his musical path. Now courted by imaginative new bands, he explains his route backKiran Leonard presses the tips of his fingers together and looks at me solemnly across the table. “I don’t know if I’m doing a very good job,” he says, “But I’m…
Hailed as a prodigy at 16, the Saddleworth singer-songwriter was patronised in the press and lost his musical path. Now courted by imaginative new bands, he explains his route backKiran Leonard presses the tips of his fingers together and looks at me solemnly across the table. “I don’t know if I’m doing a very good job,” he says, “But I’m…
