Sovereign Light Café
| "Sovereign Light Café" | ||||
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| Single by Keane | ||||
| from the album Strangeland | ||||
| B-side | "Difficult Child" | |||
| Released | 23 July 2012 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, pop rock | |||
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| Label | Island | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Tim Rice-Oxley, Tom Chaplin, Richard Hughes, Jesse Quin | |||
| Producer(s) | Dan Grech-Marguerat | |||
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| "Sovereign Light Café" on YouTube | ||||
"Sovereign Light Café" is a song by English alternative rock band Keane released as the third single from their fourth studio album, Strangeland.
The band played the song for first time during the Perfect Symmetry World Tour on 17 September 2009 in Thunder Bay Ontario. It has been a staple of Keane setlist since 2012 and the primary closing song since 2019.
The song was written with inspiration drawn from the town of Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex, where the café is located in real life, and also the town of Battle, where many of the roads mentioned are close to where the members of Keane grew up.