Kieran Thorpe is a French singer-songwriter and novelist, from Toulouse. He has spent the last 10 years travelling and performing across Europe – from rural anarchist bookshops to the stages of Cambridge Folk Festival and Glastonbury as songwriter and keys player with UK rock and roll band, The Buffalo Skinners. He is also trained baker and when not touring lives in the French countryside with his partner and son, restoring an old farmhouse where he plans to build an artist residency and studio. In 2021, inspired by the likes of James Taylor, Leonard Cohen and noir, existential novelists Pascal Garnier and George Simenon, Thorpe released his debut album A Room With A View, with an accompany series of short stories. 2025 sees him set out on tour, debuting tracks from a new album, across the UK, France and Germany.
With special guest....HENRY BIRD
Henry Bird grew up in the North Yorkshire moors, a few miles from Helmsley. A born traveller, classicist, historian, chef, songwriter, he has travelled the world–from the towers of Oxford, to the cathedrals and colosseum of Italy, to the ruined temples of Greece, to the tropics of the South Pacific. Lyrically Henry deals with the nature of the road, of love, of leaving, of memory, all wrapped up in classical references, Dylan-esque song structures, with a voice reminiscent of singers like Van Morrison and a guitar style sometimes echoing that of the 60s and 70s English folk revival–John Renbourn, John Martyn, Nick Drake. When not playing, studying or cooking, Henry builds bicycles and bangs about on old motorbikes.