| Sovereign Light Café | |
| Cover: | SovereignLight.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Keane |
| Album: | Strangeland |
| B-Side: | Difficult Child |
| Released: | 23 July 2012 |
| Genre: | Alternative rock, pop rock |
| Length: |
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| Label: | Island |
| Producer: | Dan Grech-Marguerat |
| Prev Title: | Disconnected |
| Prev Year: | 2012 |
| Next Title: | Higher Than the Sun |
| Next Year: | 2013 |
"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]
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.
| UK Download (OCC) | 80 | |
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| US Billboard Triple A[3] | 20 |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[4] Afrojack remix | 110 |
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