MORE MIKE KENEALLY

In his latest newsletter, MK says:

Four shows remain on this ProgJect tour I’m currently on, which has been so much damn fun I can’t even tell you. It means a lot to be able to play this amazing music with these guys for crazy prog fans across the US. Next year we’ll be spanning more of the globe – more news on that will come to you as it’s finalized.

The remaining ProgJect shows for this month are all in California, and they are here:

• The Grand Ritz in Escondido – Friday Oct 6. 
• The Mint in Los Angeles – Saturday Oct 7. 
• The Lafayette Town Hall Theatre – Sunday Oct 8. 
• And the final gig of the tour at The Grape in Ventura – Monday Oct 9. 

I’m doing three nights at the Baked Potato with Joe Travers’ One Shot Deal band in late October, playing the ever-glistening music of Frank Zappa, and featuring the dulcet magnificence of Pete Griffin! Jamie Kime! Billy Hulting! Scheila Gonzalez! Ben Thomas! These people aren’t screwing around.
I’m playing on the complete sets, every song. Three nights, two sets a night:

• Wednesday Oct. 25, 8pm and 10pm
• Thursday Oct. 26, 8pm and 10pm
• Friday Oct. 27, 8pm and 10pm

My final gigs of this year will be with Devin Townsend in Australia in November.

 
These dates mark the end of this year’s Lightwork tour cycle with Dev. It’s been completely fantastic – the Feb/March Europe and UK dates, the summer North America dates with Dream Theater and Animals As Leaders, the one-off ArcTanGent Festival in August – it’s all been so dang fun and wonderful.

There won’t be any Devin touring for quite some time after these November dates, and who’s to say if I’ll even be in the band next time he decides to do it (by which I only mean that I respect and support Devin’s choice to head in whatever direction he wants to at any time...I am grateful to report, though, that I’ll be going to his studio early next year to contribute musically, in whatever way I can, to his upcoming 2025 orchestral/theatrical extravaganza – about which, much, much more later).
All of this is to say that I’ll really be relishing these upcoming dates in Australia with Devin, Darby and James, and if you’re in the neighborhood it would be amazing if you could come by:

• Fremantle, Nov. 8
• Melbourne, Nov. 10
• Sydney, Nov. 11 
• Brisbane, Nov. 12

And there's the new collab between me and Marcelo Radulovich, Monday: