The Kele movement is gathering steam...click here to watch three brilliant live videos of 'Tenderoni', 'Everything You Wanted' and 'On The Lam', recorded for a Steve Lamacq session a couple days ago.
He is also featured on the front cover of this week's NME...watch here a video interview he recorded for the magazine!
Edit: The three videos are now on YouTube...watch 'Everything You Wanted' below, and click here to watch the other two tracks!
Kele and his band performing 'Everything You Wanted' at the BBC
Kele has just announced a lengthy solo tour, including dates in Europe, USA and Canada. Click here for the full list.
And here's the brand spanking new video for his first solo single, 'Tenderoni'...
What are your first impressions of Kele's solo project? Excited about 'The Boxer', or looking forward more to hearing what Young Legionnaire come up with?
Kele's debut solo single, 'Tenderoni', got it's first play on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show last night. It's now available to stream over on his MySpace. The single will be released on June 14th, so expect to be hearing this track soundtracking the coming festival season...
The Fly have posted up a track-by-track preview of Kele's upcoming solo album, 'The Boxer'. Read it here! No sign yet of any preview clips, but appetites are well and truly whetted...
It's been in the pipeline for a while, but Kele this week announced concrete details of his first solo album: 'The Boxer'. Produced mainly in New York with Spank Rock producer, XXXChange, the album will be released on June 21st in the UK and June 22nd in the US. Read the tracklisting below...
Someone's been working out...
01 Walk Tall
02 On the Lam
03 Tenderoni
04 The Other Side
05 Everything You Wanted
06 New Rules
07 Unholy Thoughts
08 Rise
09 All the Things I Could Never Say
10 Yesterday's Gone
'Tenderoni', assumedly not a cover of the Chromeo song, will be the first single released from the album, on June 14th.
No sneak previews of 'The Boxer' have so far been made available, but recent interviews, plus the accompanying press photo of Kele cradling an Akai MPC, suggest that he's been venturing further into electro-pop territory. Here's what Kele said to the NME: "I've been into clubbing for years. I've said from the beginning I'm into dance, it gets me excited and I think this record is going to go some way to prove that to people, hopefully."
With the first solo dates to come next month (see this post), expect to hear the first tasters from the album very soon. In the meantime, Kele has wired himself up to various cyber spots (website, blog, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook) to keep us all informed of his comings and goings.
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