A busy year for UK singer-songwriter Ryan Keen touring the majority of 2013 - the past twelve months have seen him play over 200 gigs, supporting everyone from Plan B at the iTunes festival, to Ben Howard, Ed Sheeran, and X Factor star Leona Lewis at the Royal Albert Hall. And he will be soon supporting our own Irish troubadour Gavin James.
Signed to Lookout Mountain who also boast an impressive list of acts such as the adopted Irish son Jamie Lawson, Keen recorded the album in his own garden shed. (Impressed... yes me too).
On the Room For Lightmarks record, Keen debuted single ‘Old Scars’ which he teamed up with record producer Dan Parry, who previously worked with the likes of Adele and Lady Gaga. Well received on Uk Radio, it is set to hit Irish shores with 'You Know About me' a stunning track which will easily land him his own growing Irish fan base.
Having mastered the art of storytelling, Keen is not just your standard singer songwriter but one fuelled on emotions and passion, (he was inspired to delve into song-writing after the tragic death of his friend at university), he draws from the every day and pieces the mundane mixed with the realties of life into a musically fluid songbook that will appeal to many.
This first record sounds like his third or fourth - it is that mature- something tells me there will be yet lot more to come from the vastly impressive songsmith Ryan Keen.
Be sure to catch him in Ireland this December with our own Gavin James:
Gavin James
The Forum, Waterford, Ireland
SAT Dec 07 2013
Gavin James
Dolans Warehouse, Limerick, Ireland
SUN Dec 08 2013
Gavin James
Róisín Dubh, Galway, Ireland
TUE Dec 10 2013
Ryan Keen Black Box, Belfast, UK
THU Dec 12
2013 Gavin James
Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Ireland
FRI Dec 13 2013
Gavin James
Pepper Canister Church, Dublin, Ireland
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