It's not just Sufjan Stevens giving me excuses to travel to Europe, Keane are too. Well, they would be, if I were a Keane fan. Still, it is a good excuse to visit Offenbach.
The band's Tom Chaplin says: "On the last European tour we wanted to test out our new material and decided we'd give our hardcore fans a treat by distributing tickets through our website and making sure they were the ones that got in. It made for a series of very intimate, very hot and sweaty rock and roll shows and we loved every minute of it. Now we want to go back, up the ante, and give them a bigger better show than they've ever seen from Keane, and a night they'll never forget."
And here are the dates:
6 Nov: Paris, Zeinth
7 Nov: Rotterdam, Ahoy
10 Nov: Copenhagen, KB Hallen
12 Nov: Stockholm, The Annex
13 Nov: Oslo, Spektrum
15 Nov: Berlin, Tempodrom
16 Nov: Offenbach, Stadthalle
17 Nov: Grenoble, Summum