Keane Announce Club Dates Amidst Forest Shows
After selling out their entire six-date June 2010 forest tour, Keane have announced plans to intersperse the tour with shows at club venues in London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Dublin.
Says Tim: “The forest shows we’re playing in June will be big, glorious singalongs, but we wanted to play some more sweaty and intimate gigs along the way.” He added, “We figured out the other day that we haven’t played in Birmingham since February 2007. Birmingham was one of the first cities to really embrace Keane - in fact, we think it was the scene of our first sold out show - so it’s about time we got back there.”
The dates are as follows:
15th June - The Roundhouse, London
16th June - Academy, Birmingham
21st June - Barrowlands, Glasgow
23rd June - Olympia, Dublin
Tickets for the new shows will go on sale at 9.30am on Wednesday April 14th, via a pre-sale at www.keanemusic.com/tickets.
The tour will begin exactly one month after the May 10th release of Keane’s new 8-track EP, ‘Night Train’, which was recorded in various studios during the Perfect Symmetry world tour that saw the band playing to packed arenas in 28 countries. An approving Popjustice.com has already declared that the EP features “some extraordinary tunes”. Highlights include Keane’s genre-busting collaborations with Somali/Canadian rapper K’Naan, ‘Stop For A Minute’ and ‘Looking Back’.
Lead track ‘Stop For A Minute’ is now available to download from iTunes.