‘I had no plan. Just total scorched earth’: how Kiran Leonard survived teen success to make songs of full-body joy

<p>Hailed as a prodigy at 16, the Saddleworth singer-songwriter was patronised in the press and lost his musical path. Now courted by imaginative new bands, he explains his route back</p><p>Kiran Leonard presses the tips of his fingers together and looks at me solemnly across the t