MICHAEL KIWANUKA Live at The Academy on May 19

LIVE AT THE ACADEMY ON MAY 19
**TICKETS ON SALE THIS FRIDAY**

Following three amazing Irish shows this weekend BC Sound of 2012 winner Michael Kiwanuka has announced a summer return to Dublin on Saturday 19 May at The Academy.

Tickets €16.00 including booking fee are on sale this Friday, 17 February from Ticketmaster outlets and online at www.ticketmaster.ie

With Michael Kiwanuka, it’s all about the voice. A voice that he describes as “hitting straight through to the core” with direct, emotional songs about love, yearning, comfort and belonging. It’s a voice that built him a following via MySpace and small London gigs, and led Paul Butler from The Bees to invite him to the band’s Isle of Wight studio to lay down these introductory tracks from what promises to be a major new British singer/songwriter. Which makes it all the more strange, really, that what Michael originally set out to be was a session guitarist who maybe wrote the odd song for other people.

For Kiwanuka, key musical touchstones include Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Shuggie Otis, Roberta Flack’s First Take, Bill Withers’ Live At Carnegie Hall and D’Angelo’s modern soul landmark Voodoo.              

Few records make such an instant impression as Michael’s debut album, Home Again. Immersing the listener in a sound that is both modern and at the same time as familiar as the classics, it manages to strike the balance between being contemporary and somehow utterly timeless.

From the opening bars of the stirring Tell Me A Tale, it is instantly clear that Home Again is a very special album.

While its more upbeat characteristics are embodied in the Prince Buster-like loping of the lovelorn but irresistibly catchy Bones and the rolling soul groove of I’ll Get Along, elsewhere it proves itself to be a record of real stripped-down beauty and it is with the title track of Home Again, however, that Michael Kiwanuka feels the record’s sounds and themes are ultimately encapsulated.

It is an album that is set to make the liquid-voiced singer an international name and touch its listeners in the same way as his favourite records inspired Michael Kiwanuka himself. 

Tickets for Michael Kiwanuka live at The Academy on May 19 are on sale now.

For more see: www.michaelkiwanuka.com / www.mcd.ie / www.ticketmaster.ie

February 13, 2012 6:49am ET by MCD   Comments (0)

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