Liverpool singer and songwriter Kieran Molyneux from Walton, now based in Toxteth, is known professionally as Kieo and had a number of jobs before being able to do his dream job of playing around the world with his guitar after starting doing open mic spots. He says, "I've had hundreds of jobs from gardening to PPI, to call centres to ripping houses out. Anything that could facilitate me trying to start a music career." He started playing guitar when he left school and started taking it seriously towards his late teens and thought this is something he really wanted to do. His self-recorded debut single 'Tearaway', a nostalgic lament of lost youth that yearns for the seemingly simpler times before adulthood, was released in the summer of 2021 and "went beyond expectations". This original song, which reached number 33 in the British iTunes charts, felt like the accumulation of everything he had been working towards since he started. Since then he has been playing major shows and recording new songs - the first of which, 'Happy To Lose My Mind', was released in March 2022.
Speaking to the Liverpool Echo in 2022, the musician explained how his support for Liverpool FC led to connections that have seen him playing shows all over the world. Kieo said: "I've been playing and writing music for years, but in terms of releasing music and putting songs out there, I’ve been an original artist for about a year." He has had shows in Oslo and Reykjavik with BOSS Night, where he supported fellow Liverpool artist and friend, Jamie Webster, who he has shared rehearsal rooms with. BOSS kicked off in 2007, as a Liverpool FC fanzine called BOSS Mag. and in 2011, its founders put on a gig for their friends in keeping with the magazine, named BOSS Night. Since then, it's grown and grown with events in Liverpool and around the world. He says, "I've been involved in LFC fan night Boss Night for a few years, with events that took place after Liverpool games and we've played shows in Qatar, Germany, all over. We've been lucky it's taken us all over the world. The events capture that match day culture."
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| At The Cavern supporting Jamie Webster in 2021 |
Having been part of BOSS Nights’ success from the beginning, he has since played with loads of legendary Liverpool artists from 'The Lightning Seeds' and John Power, to 'Space'. Kieran says, "I’ve been playing for years around Liverpool now and I started doing the BOSS Night stuff nearly 10 years ago. I always wanted to be a singer and started singing and writing in my teens and had a good crack at it. I’m still trying but I’m getting there. I think the moment I realised I could actually do it for a living was probably when I walked out to 60,000 people in a fan park in Madrid for the Champions League Final in 2019 and I thought, this is here to stay now, I’m not going to ever stop doing it. It’s my life, it’s what I belong doing." His latest single, 'Nothing On TV' was selected for a new music discovery tool
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