KEANE frontman Tom Chaplin will play Harrogate Convention Centre on April 27 on a six-date tour in celebration of The Songs Of Queen.

The concerts come in the wake of the "unprecedented response" to Chaplin's concert for BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night series, recorded at the London Palladium.

Backed by the same 24-piece Leo Green Orchestra that accompanied him at the Palladium, Chaplin, 39, will perform an array of Queen's evergreen operatic pop hits, from Somebody To Love, Don’t Stop Me Now, Play The Game and The Show Must Go On, to Killer Queen, I Want To Break Free, Radio Ga Ga and These Are The Days Of Our Lives, as he revels in the songs of Mercury, May, Taylor and Deacon.

Chaplin told the Palladium full house the complex studio production had led Queen originally to perform Bohemian Rhapsody with a backing track. His version was entirely live, and likewise he sang both the Mercury and David Bowie vocal parts for Under Pressure, as can be heard at bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002hql.

Chaplin had learned 20 songs in three weeks for the two-hour Friday Night show, recorded on a Wednesday last November by the way, when he revealed Freddie Mercury had been his idol.

"It’s a rollercoaster of emotions, singing the songs of Queen," he said that night. Now he must ride the rollercoaster again this spring at Bournemouth, Cardiff, the London Palladium, Oxford, Harrogate and Manchester. Harrogate tickets are on sale at harrogatetheatre.co.uk or on 01423 502116.