Keane Announce Details Of First UK Tour In Three Years

Tickets will go on sale on Friday 24th February 2012 at 9AM and are available from the link below

On finishing the recording of the new album in February Keane announced two special shows at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, a location close to their hearts as it was both their teenage haunt and near to where the album was recorded. They announced the dates in the local paper only and within 5 minutes they were sold out. This will be the first time fans will hear new material.

Highly anticipated and years in the making the band recorded the album in the UK at Sea Fog, Ivor Novello Award winner Tim Rice-Oxley's studio and are calling it their most personal record yet. Release details to be announced soon.

Four years have elapsed since Keane's last album 'Perfect Symmetry'; two since 'Night Train', the mini-LP which followed its three full-length predecessors to the top of the British album charts, securing them a place in pop history. If Keane's feverishly loyal fanbase wondered what the group's next album would sound like, they weren't the only ones. In the eight years following the release of 2004's 9× platinum Brit award winning 'Hopes & Fears', every Keane album has marked a clear progression from the previous one: the anxious emotional terrain mapped out by 'Under The Iron Sea'; the iridescent poptimism of 'Perfect Symmetry' featuring the electro charged hit song 'Spiralling', voted Q Magazine's 2008 Song Of The Year. Now a four piece, new member Jesse Quin, who collaborated with Rice-Oxley on Mt. Desolation, plays bass and has been playing live with the band since the release of 'Perfect Symmetry'.

UK tour dates:

May 2012

Wednesday 23 - Newcastle O2 Academy - 0844 477 2000

Thursday 24 - Glasgow O2 Academy - 0844 4999 990

Friday 25 - Birmingham O2 Academy - 0844 477 2000

Tuesday 29 - Leeds O2 Academy - 0844 477 2000

Wednesday 30 - Manchester O2 Apollo - 0844 477 7677

June 2012

Monday 04 - Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall - 0844 847 1776

Tuesday 05 - Bristol O2 Academy - 0844 477 2000

Wednesday 06 - Leicester De Montfort Hall - 0116 233 3111

Friday 08 - London O2 Academy Brixton - 0844 477 2000

Tickets are priced at £25, £28.50 for London. Keane will also be playing at this year's South By South West Festival. Details to be announced.


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http://tickets.keanemusic.com