Keane are gearing up to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album, Hopes and Fears, in style. The British band has announced a new remastered version dropping on May 10th, 2024, or exactly two decades after its initial release. What’s more, they will support the record with an international arena tour next year.
Featuring a keyboard-driven sound and the breakout hit, “Somewhere Only We Know,” Hopes and Fears has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. In 2004, Keane were the biggest-selling British artist in the UK, and the following year, they landed BRIT Awards for Best British Album and British Breakthrough Act.
Next year’s tour will kick off on April 1st with shows in Mexico City and Guadalajara before Keane head over to the UK and Europe through mid-May. They’ll pick back up in September with a North American leg featuring stops in Los Angeles, Nashville, Chicago, Toronto, New York City, and more. A Live Nation pre-sale will begin on Thursday, September 14th (use access code STUDIO) ahead of the general on-sale kicking off one day later via Ticketmaster.
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Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. For tickets to shows outside of North America, head over to viagogo.
“I remember standing by that amazing old mixing desk at Heliocentric Studios where we made Hopes and Fears, listening to an early mix of ‘Somewhere Only We Know,’” lead singer Tom Chaplin said in a statement. “I had this feeling that we’d come up with something that had an extra bit of magic. Making music is so often a process full of doubt… but on this occasion there was something undeniable about what we’d created. Clearly a lot of people felt the same when the album came out!”
Keyboardist and songwriter Tim Rice-Oxley added, “When I think about these songs, I still picture us playing them in little rooms in pubs around the UK. I remember how exciting it was watching the crowds start to grow. Those songs opened the door to another dimension for us; everything that has happened in our lives since then was born out of that moment. It’s an incredible privilege for us that people are still listening after all this time.”
Keane’s last album was 2019’s Cause and Effect.
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