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April Kira has been making live solo appearances at Klute. She has been invited to play at the Bournemouth Music Festival in June. Kira will be joined by other musicians for this event.
January
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November You can catch Kira at the local acoustic venues - Central, Mr.Smiths and Klute.
October Kira played at the Central and made her debut at Klute. She loved the venue and the other acts including the house band.
September Kira continues to work on some new material and thinking through a new way of producing her songs.
August Kira has been working on some new songs and trying them out at several acoustic venues around town.
July The highlight this month has to be the Christchurch Festival where Kira played an energetic set of her own songs as well as some well known covers to the crowd's delight
June Kira has been getting the band ready to play a set of festivals around the South West
May Kira is doing a set of acoustic gigs around town playing some songs of her new CD Div i ded. She will be rehearsing for the Christchurch Festival in July.
April The new CD Divided is ready and will be released in the next couple of weeks. There will also be gigs this summer at the festivals along the South Coast.
2004
July The festivals have come and gone, all of them were fun with attendances hit by the poor weather. The highlight would most likely be the Christchurch festival which saw the band in high spirits throughout the set. This atmosphere continued throughout the afternoon and Kira and Roy went on stage again later to join Crosscut Saw in a storming version of "Rocking in the free world".
Jun We are getting into the festival season again with The Christchurch, Bournemouth and Brockstock all within a couple weeks of each other. Kira has also been playing various solo acoustic gigs around and about which have been very well received.
Jan Kira and the band will again be playing at the Christchurch Festival this year. The date has been confirmed as Sunday July 4th. The Festival is always an enjoyable event with a good mix of musical styles.
2003
Oct Plenty of gigs during the last couple of months, with some of the highlights being at Mr Smiths & Shenanigans. Shenanigans is a club night being run every Sunday night in the Green Room at the Portman pub in Boscombe. It features all aspects of roots music and is a well run night with a great atmosphere. Kira is next there on Nov 9th as the headlining act. July A good month with gigs played at both the Bournemouth & Christchurch festivals. Also a number of solo appearances made. The radio station Rock 24-7 played Naked from the "Dream On" CD and also gave a good plug for the rest of the CD and future events. Rock 24-7 is well worth listening to and can be found on the fm at 106.6. Kira has also been confirmed on the bill for the Brockstock festival on Saturday August 9th at 12:30 pm. June Dates now confirmed for the Bournemouth International festival (Saturday 28th June 3pm) and the Christchurch festival (Sunday July 6th 12pm). April Arrangements are still being put together but it looks very likely that Kira will be playing at various festivals during the summer. These will include Christchurch, The Bournemouth International Festival and also Brockstock. As soon as the dates are confirmed we will show them here. March A couple of gigs in for this month which are Mr Smith's on the 19th and Bartonka on the 31st both of these are in Bournemouth. Kira has also been back to the Rydal during the month and another gig is planned for early April.
February
The working title for Kira's new CD is currently "Talk with your eyes". The recordings are completed and the artwork is nearly finished. There is a good strong bill lined up for the gig at Le Batteau in Parkstone on the 23rd so do try to be there. January 2003 started well with new songs being written and recorded for the next CD due out in early February. Some songs written a while ago have now been recorded. A Latin feel has been added to songs like 'Please call'. The new material has a variety of sounds and styles. 2002 December The month started with a solo acoustic gig at Bar van which was a nice evening with some good acts on the bill. November Kira will be appearing at the Rydal in New Milton on Sunday 24th November. This will be an acoustic set and will start about 9:30pm. October & November are being spent recording tracks for a new Cd. It will be a mixture of new songs along with some of the old favorites from the live set. It is coming along well and should be ready for the new year. September Kira has been concentrating on playing a series of solo gigs at venues such as the Rydal, Bar Van and the Boscombe community fair. This along with recording new songs has meant a pretty busy couple of months. The full band will be back at the Thomas Trip on the 25th and will be performing several new numbers. July A good time was had by all at the Christchurch festival which managed to avoid the rain so everyone could sit in the sunshine enjoying the music. The festival was really well organized and is fast becoming a big date in the gig goers diary.
By the time I made it to the site on Saturday, the Hedgemonkeys were in full swing. This crowd-pleasing band really knows how to get people going, always great value. They were followed by the Kira Band who played a stunning set full of energy and excitement - matched only by that of the crowd! Ian Peterson
June No gigs lined up for June yet. Kira will continue to record and rehearse with the band in preparation for the Chirstchurch Festival and the Cellar Bar. She will also be in LA and will be going to various venues to perform at 'Open Mics' sessions with other local musicians. Kira's song "Another Ticket Another Destination" from the Little Demons CD was voted track of the week in the Burb's sound room for June so thanks to all who voted.
May May will be a busy month for Kira. She is rehearsing with a full band to play at an open air event on Sunday May 5th. On the following day bank holiday Monday, Kira will join other acoustic acts at Bar Vin and continue to try out some of the new material in a live situation. May 16th Kira will be at Bartonka bands night with her band. She will be joined by Psiren for a great evening of local live music. April Although busy recording new material, Kira stepped out to the Ryday on April 21st to try some of the new songs live. A new song called 'Now you see' proved to be instantly accepted and worth recording. The gig at the Rydal was enjoyable and laid back and easy like Sunday evening.... March Kira will now start rehearsals with the band to get ready for some music events taking place in the summer starting at the beginning of May and Christchurch Festival on the 6th of July. During March and April, Kira will also start recording some new songs she has been writing this year. "After writing a song and playing it on the acoustic guitar for a while, it is nice to record the song in a basic format, sit back and listen in order to make up your mind about the song", says Kira. The gig at the Rydal in New Milton was a new venue to play and the evening was made up of various acts performing sets of around 30 minutes each. Kira closed the evening and was accompanied by Roy and Paul on acoustics. During the set they played one of the old Zuma songs "Los Ninos" which was a surprise for Roy as the last time he had played the song live was about 5 years ago. The whole evening was very well supported and I think that as a venue the Rydal is here to stay.
February The gig at the Thomas Trip was a lot of fun with Kira and her band being joined on stage by the legendary percussionist Dr Zodiac. The evening was very well attended and the audience were also entertained by the return of Lance Riley once of Bewley Brothers fame. All in all a really good evenings entertainment. What more could you expect on a wet Wednesday evening in Christchurch. The solid air acoustic session at Bartonka was another of Conrad's "ladies nights" and once again showed what incredible female musical talent there is in the area. The evening started with Sarah Joyce who accompanied herself on acoustic guitar and got the evening off to a great start. Next up was a young poet who was performing her own poems live for the first time, who would have known? Then Kira took the stage backed by Roy, Paul & Dr Zodiac. They performed 4 numbers from the Little Demons CD. Starting with Caveman they then went straight into the Song of Us followed by Hush Hush and then closed with a storming version of The Girl of His Dreams. A short set but it covered the different styles and moods of Kira's song's perfectly. The evening closed with a band from Portsmouth who were fronted by a fine vocalist backed up by a fiddle player who between them produced some fine melodic interchanges. All in all another varied but memorable night at Bartonka. At O'Neils Kira played for the first time with a full band. With Mike Nicholls previously with Breeze on drums who complimented the songs really well. With Jools on bass and backing vocals, Roy Watson on lead guitar and Paul Bass on acoustic rhythm guitar the line up was complete. The band created a lot of energy on stage covering tracks from the Little Demons CD, along with Dreams by Fleetwood Mac and the 4 Non Blondes song What's up. |
