Sovereign Light Café

"Sovereign Light Café"
"Sovereign Light Café"
Single by Keane
from the album Strangeland
B-side	"Difficult Child"
Released	23 July 2012
Genre	Alternative rock, pop rock
Length	3:38 (album version); 3:28 (radio edit/The Best of Keane version);
Label	Island
Songwriters	Tim Rice-Oxley, Tom Chaplin, Richard Hughes, Jesse Quin
Producer	Dan Grech-Marguerat
Keane singles chronology
Music video
	"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.^[1]

Music video

The music video was premiered on 30 May 2012. It was filmed in Bexhill-on-Sea and directed by Lindy Heymann. The video shows band members strolling the town as they are surrounded by various dancers, acrobats, bicyclists and Heathfield Silver Band.^[2] The band members and all the performers meet outside the Sovereign Light Café Coffee Shop at the end of the video and it ends with a group photo.

Track listing

Digital download

"Sovereign Light Café" – 3:38
"Difficult Child" – 3:44

Digital download — remix

"Sovereign Light Café" (Afrojack Remix) – 6:16

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for "Sovereign Light Café"
Chart (2012–13)	Peak position
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders)^[3]	2
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Wallonia)^[4]	4
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)^[5] Afrojack remix	22
Netherlands (Single Top 100)^[6] Afrojack remix	29
Netherlands (Single Top 100)^[7]	71
UK Singles (OCC)^[8]	74
UK Download (OCC)	80
US Billboard Triple A^[9]	20

Year-end charts

2013 year-end chart performance for "Sovereign Light Café"
Chart (2013)	Position
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)^[10] Afrojack remix	110

References

^ "BBC News - Keane to start world tour in Bexhill-on-Sea". Bbc.co.uk. 9 March 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
^ "Heathfield Silver Band's history to be preserved in archive". InYourArea.co.uk. 11 September 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
^ "Keane – Sovereign Light Café" (in Dutch). Ultratip.
^ "Keane – Sovereign Light Café" (in French). Ultratip.
^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Keane feat Afrojack" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
^ "Afrojack vs Keane – Sovereign Light Café" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
^ "Keane – Sovereign Light Café" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
^ "Billboard Triple A". 2 March 2013.
^ "Jaarlijsten 2013" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 11 May 2022.

[1] "BBC News - Keane to start world tour in Bexhill-on-Sea". Bbc.co.uk. 9 March 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2014.

[2] "Heathfield Silver Band's history to be preserved in archive". InYourArea.co.uk. 11 September 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2021.

[sc_Flanders_Tip_Keane-3] "Keane – Sovereign Light Café" (in Dutch). Ultratip.

[sc_Wallonia_Tip_Keane-4] "Keane – Sovereign Light Café" (in French). Ultratip.

[sc_Dutch40_Keane_feat_Afrojack-5] "Nederlandse Top 40 – Keane feat Afrojack" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.

[sc_Dutch100_Afrojack_vs_Keane-6] "Afrojack vs Keane – Sovereign Light Café" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.

[sc_Dutch100_Keane-7] "Keane – Sovereign Light Café" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.

[sc_UK_-8] "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 11 May 2022.

[9] "Billboard Triple A". 2 March 2013.

[10] "Jaarlijsten 2013" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 11 May 2022.

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v t e Keane songs
Hopes and Fears	"Somewhere Only We Know" "Everybody's Changing" "Bedshaped" "This Is the Last Time" "Bend and Break"
Under the Iron Sea	"Atlantic" "Is It Any Wonder?" "Crystal Ball" "Nothing in My Way" "A Bad Dream" "Try Again" "The Frog Prince"
Perfect Symmetry	"Spiralling" "The Lovers Are Losing" "Perfect Symmetry"
Night Train	"Stop for a Minute"
Strangeland	"Silenced by the Night" "Disconnected" "Sovereign Light Café"
The Best of Keane	"Higher than the Sun" "Won't Be Broken"
Other singles	"Call Me What You Like" "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" "The Night Sky" "Tear Up This Town"

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