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“I just finished festival season and I could feel the hole it made in my pocket”: Michael Kiwanuka says it's too expensive to tour

Michael Kiwanuka.

The cover-star of this month's Music Week is a star very much in the ascendancy but even with his level of breakthrough fame Kiwanuka worries about the costs of keeping the wheels on his career. 

For while the summer saw him as festival regular, appearing at Glastonbury, Montreux Jazz Festival, Open’er in Poland and Metronome in Prague, it seems that behind the scenes even Kiwanuka works hard to make the numbers stack up.

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