Live Performance at Fanaki's Coffeehouse

03/04/2020

KEEPING yourself occupied as a musician in isolation who normally who likes to party, play and rock out is not going to be an easy task but it will be worth it. Standing in front of YouTube playing…

19/11/2019

This will be our last performance for 2019 as Mike Kneafsey (SA's singer and songwriter) is off on a cruise performing out at sea from San Fran to Mexico. So this is a special gig for us and we really hope you can come along to listen but also give Mike a good send off. Hope to see you there. Anna (Sweeney drums).

12/09/2019

Just to confirm times and gigs.

Sweeney Astray are playing as a full band - drums, double bass, guitars - at the Hurst Green Wine Beer & Music Festival on Fri 13th (tomorrow) at approx 9pm. Tickets £10.

Mike Kneafsey & Shug Millidge will be playing at the Hurst Green Wine Beer & Music Festival on Saturday Sept 14th at 8.30pm - tickets £12.

I'll also be playing a short set around 5.30pm on the Saturday afternoon and helping to run the stage along with Daniel Hester, Alan & Janet and Ivana Douglas.

On top of that, I'm also playing at the student registration day at UCLAN Burnley on Tuesday 17th September.

For those of you interested - the cruise auditions at Blueprint Studios on Monday went well - they seemed pleased with me. If they offer me any contracts and when, I'll let you know.

Just to confirm times and gigs.

Sweeney Astray are playing as a full band - drums, double bass, guitars - at the Hurst Green Wine Beer & Music Festival on Fri 13th (tomorrow) at approx 9pm. Tickets £10.

Mike Kneafsey & Shug Millidge will be playing at the Hurst Green Wine Beer & Music Festival on Saturday Sept 14th at 8.30pm - tickets £12.

I'll also be playing a short set around 5.30pm on the Saturday afternoon and helping to run the stage along with Daniel Hester, Alan & Janet and Ivana Douglas.

On top of that, I'm also playing at the student registration day at UCLAN Burnley on Tuesday 17th September.

For those of you interested - the cruise auditions at Blueprint Studios on Monday went well - they seemed pleased with me. If they offer me any contracts and when, I'll let you know.

02/08/2019

Sweeney Astray are playing this weekend at FoxyFest in Clitheroe.

We're on the acoustic stage this Sunday August 4th at 2pm (Mike, Katie, Anna) and then again at 4.30pm at the Jungle Cafe when we'll be joined by Ray on double bass. Our musician friends, fiddle players, James and Mark, over from Toronto, will also be joining us on our sets.

31/07/2019

New night in Manchester starting tomorrow Thursday August the 1st from 9pm. Open mic - jazz, blues, originals, Manchester's favourite songs. All musicians welcome. Cathedral Street below the Alston Bar & Beef. 1837 Speakeasy bar. PA provided.

Starting a new music night in Manchester tomorrow, Thursday August the 1st, from 9pm at Bar 1837 downstairs at the Alston Bar & Beef on Cathedral Street just off Exchange Square. The managers want to make this into a thriving venue with booked acts so it deserves our support. It's going to be every Thursday.

20/07/2019

If anyone is planning to go up to watch the music at Waddow Hall tomorrow (Sunday 21st), I'm playing with bassist Shug Millidge on the main stage at 3.20pm. I'd be glad to see you there.

I'll be playing a new set of songs including tracks by Lou Reed, Cherry Ghost and Ryan Adams as well as my own originals. Songs that I love to play.

We're playing at the Middle Earth Beer & Music Festival 2019 - check in at The Ale House for details or on the website.

28/06/2019

A Boat Beneath the Stars

Recorded live at Eaves Hall, West Bradford in May 2019. Film by Sam Fittock of Gypsy Carrot Productions. Sound by Elliott Dryden. Written and performed live by Mike Kneafsey.

I wrote this song about the magic of travelling in the UK and Europe. That feeling of being off the islands and getting with something of the beauty of the world out there, in nature. The many times that I’ve set off on adventures on ferries to foreign shores, across oceans, looking for love, stories to live out and new experiences and places.

It’s got a small piece of all sorts in the song. Picking fruit on a farm in West Sussex with a group of friends, busking round Cornwall with a girlfriend for a couple of months, drinking with musicians in Athens, camping in France year after year. Travelling out on a boat from Brindisi in Italy to Corfu with friends from Brighton, on the top deck with pizza and wine beneath the summer heat of starlit night sky while everybody around you parties and chatters. Wondering what awaits you on the other side.
Fantastic times.

A Boat Beneath The Stars
Picking from the orchard and the apples were free
Working through the summer, you were good company
Music in my head and the light between the trees

We got the money to trip off to France
In railways through Europe and I lead the dance
Budapest reminds me of the evening in the warm breeze

CHROUS:
We were chasing the holy myths
Through the cafes and bars
Took a boat out from Brindisi…
…a boat beneath the stars

We hit the coastlines of the seas we could reach
Waking in the morning with you rolling by me
What it is to be alive with all that fine fizzing energy

13/06/2019

For those of you with SoundCloud I put up a solo acoustic taster track of Summertime. I'll be bringing out my new song and single, plus a live video on YouTube this month - A Boat Beneath The Stars - before then I'll be singing my songs with Sweeney Astray at Cloudspotting Festival 2019 and solo at the Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2019, this Saturday.

Solo taster of a famous Gershwin showtune. This month June 2019 I will be bringing out a new song - A Boat Beneath The Stars - with a live video on YouTube and on the Mike Kneafsey Guitar page on Face