Cork musician Simple Kid on middle-age and making a comeback
Simple Kid, aka Kieran McFeely: first hometown gig in 17 years at Cyprus Avenue this May
When Kieran Mac Feely came out of semi-retirement and played a rare show in Dublin under his stage name of Simple Kid last year, he was stunned by the warmth of the response.
Some of those turning out were long-time fans who’d been around for the two extraordinary albums he released in the early 2000s. But many were too young to have seen Simple Kid in his heyday and were delighted he had decided to pick up his guitar once again and play genre-splicing hits such as 'Truck On' and 'Lil King Kong' — tunes that combined heartfelt lyrics with shaggy choruses and charmingly hangdog melodies. It was a moment they had assumed would never happen.
