There was always a sense that ‘Put A Smile On For Me’ was capturing Keo in motion. A band still finding themselves, making sense of things as they went, while everything around them seemed to be moving at an entirely different speed. Now, little more than two weeks since the release of their debut album, the world around Keo has expanded once again.
The London four-piece have announced their 2027 ‘Put A Smile On For Me’ headline tour, taking them across the UK, Europe and North America from February through to May. Beginning at O2 Academy Leeds on 19th February, the run moves through Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom, O2 Academy Birmingham, Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre and an already sold-out O2 Academy Brixton, before stretching across Europe and, finally, the Atlantic, culminating at LA’s legendary Troubadour on 20th May.
The announcement comes in the wake of a remarkable first week for ‘Put A Smile On For Me’. The album entered the UK Official Albums Chart at #2, while taking #1 on both the Official Physical Albums Chart and Official Vinyl Albums Chart. In doing so, Keo became the first UK band in over two years to surpass 20,000 week-one sales with a debut album.
Numbers like those tell you how far Keo have travelled, but not quite how they got there. Long before the album arrived, something was already happening in the rooms they played. Songs were finding their way through crowds before they had properly made their way into the world; venues sold out and were upgraded; voices came back at the band louder each time. Their upcoming October UK headline tour shifted more than 9,000 tickets in 24 hours, while O2 Academy Brixton sold out before Keo had even released their debut album.
‘Put A Smile On For Me’ captured Keo in a moment of becoming. Already, that moment is beginning to open out into something larger. New rooms, new cities and entire continents now stretch out in front of them; the songs that began their lives in small London venues are travelling further than ever before. And somehow, it still feels like they are only just getting started.
UK + IRELAND
19 Feb – O2 Academy Leeds, Leeds
20 Feb – Rock City, Nottingham
22 Feb – Guildhall, Portsmouth
24 Feb – O2 Academy Bristol, Bristol
25 Feb – O2 Academy Birmingham, Birmingham
26 Feb – UEA, Norwich
3 Mar – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
5 Mar – The Octagon Centre, Sheffield
6 Mar – NX, Newcastle
12 Mar – O2 Academy Brixton, London (SOLD OUT)
15 Mar – Limelight, Belfast
16 Mar – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin
All dates and tickets can be found here
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