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Conrad Keely announces one-off London headline date

February 10, 2016

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Conrad Keely announces one-off London headline date 

Conrad Keely, singer and co-founder of the art rock group …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, recently released his debut solo album ‘Original Machines’, with Q Magazine calling it “a  brilliant odyssey through the eclectic backwaters of Keely’s imagination.”  Now he has announced he will play a one-off headline date in London on the 2nd March 2016 at Islington O2 Academy 2. 

Tickets are on sale now here: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/conrad-keely-trail-of-dead-tickets/217841

Check out some more of great the reactions to ‘Original Machines’ below:

‘A brilliant odyssey through the eclectic backwaters of Keely’s imagination’ – Q Magazine

“A genuinely fascinating listen” – Upset

“Keely’s solo work sees folk, rock, blues, ballads and more standing side-by-side in a swirling mix.” – Mojo

“Original Machines is a triumph.” – Prog 

You can check out a lyric video for the track ‘Warm Insurrection’ here:

https://youtu.be/_2HsmbC2FIE

A stream of the track ‘In Words Of A Not So Famous Man’, is also available to hear now:

https://youtu.be/3LX0EoCswY0 

The album is now available to buy on limited 2CD artbook (featuring 52 pages of Conrad’s artwork), gatefold 2LP + CD, standard CD & digital download. Pick up a copy from the links below:

http://smarturl.it/conradkeelyITUNES

http://smarturl.it/conradkeelyAMAZONMP3

http://smarturl.it/omAMAZON

http://superball.tmstor.es

His latest material includes a selection of songs written whilst traveling, mostly through Cambodia, his current country of residence. Some of the tracks were also written while on tour with …Trail of Dead, using the back of their tour bus as a make-shift recording studio.

Keely co-founded …Trail of Dead with Jason Reece, a childhood friend from Hawaii.  Begun in Austin Texas in 1995, the band has been touring non-stop ever since, and this year has marked their 20th year anniversary with their ninth album entitled IX.  Not one to slow his pace, Keely was encouraged by fellow band-mate Autry Fulbright to record a collection of solo material that would allow him to vent creative ideas and styles different from the hard-rock, high energy textures his band has become known for.  During his time spent as an expatriate in Cambodia, Keely began spending more time playing solo shows (although not always acoustic) as well as collaborating with other musicians, both expat and Cambodian, on material as diverse as Irish folk, American bluegrass, to Khmer classics from the golden age of Cambodian psychedelic rock, a scene cut tragically short by the Khmer Rouge regime in 1974.  The diversity of styles has informed much of his latest writing, but also expanded his approach to the songs he’s written over the last twenty years for his rock band.

CONRAD KEELY online: 

http://www.conradkeely.com

https://www.facebook.com/SirConradKeely 

SUPERBALL MUSIC online:

www.superballmusic.com

www.facebook.com/superballmusic

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