Keith Urban tour

Check out where you can go and see country star Keith Urban perform

Grammy award winning musician Keith Urban has sold in excess of 8 million albums world wide.

The most recent of which, 'Love, Pain & the whole Crazy Thing', which has taken the US charts by storm. 

His success has also blossomed into his personal life when he recently married Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman.

Plans are underway for Keith's much anticipated 'Love, Pain & the whole Crazy Thing'  World Tour. 

While exact dates and details are being finalised, the tour is confirmed to kick-off with a short run of special club shows in the UK and Germany this April. 

UK Tour Dates:

• Tuesday 24th April  London Shepherds Bush Empire 0870 771 2000
• Thursday 26th April  Birmingham Academy 1 0870 771 2000
• Saturday 28th April  Manchester Academy 2  0870 771 2000

From there, 'Love, Pain & the whole crazy World Tour' will move to arenas in Australia in May, before launching in the United States and Canadian arenas in June. 

Keith's biography

• In 1990, signed with EMI Australia and recorded his first solo album, which charted four No. 1 country hits in Australia. 
• In 1992 he crossed the Pacific to live full time in the US - he wanted to pursue the largest country music market in the world.
• Initially played back up guitar for country duo Brooks & Dunn before forming The Ranch, a three-piece group that released one album in 1997 - the band split in 1998 as Keith wanted to go solo.
• After years of travel, small gigs and one-off studio work he saved enough money to book his own monthly showcases - these eventually led to him signing his own deal with EMI's Capitol Records.
• During this period, he performed as a session musician on albums such as Garth Brooks' Double Live, the Dixie Chicks' Fly, and Paul Brandt's This Time Around.
• He released his self-titled American debut in 2000, which produced three top 5 hits on the US Country Chart and secured for him the Top New Male Vocalist Award at the 2001 Academy of Country Music Awards and the 2001 Country Music Association's Horizon Award.
• Keith released Golden Road in 2002, and the success of the single "Somebody Like You" sent his career onto a new level - the single spent eight consecutive weeks at the top of the US Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts
• 2004's album 'Be Here', topped Billboard's Top Country Album charts as well as hit number 3 on the Billboard 200.
• 'Be Here', went platinum in every country in which it was released, and nearly four times platinum in the United States.
• 'Be Here' earned Urban his first Grammy Award in 05 for Best Male Country Performance as well as male vocalist of the year and the very prestigious Entertainer of the Year Award from the Country Music Association.
• First three solo albums sold over five million copies despite only being released in three countries: the USA, Canada and Australia, where he has remained a huge star.
• In 2005 played in front of European audiences for the first time and supported Bryan Adams on his UK and Ireland tour, which included dates in Earls Court, London, SECC, Glasgow and The Point, Dublin.
• Latest album Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing was released on November 06 - it reached number 3 on the Billboard 200 and has been certified Platinum in the U.S, Canada and Australia .
• The album's first single "Once In A Lifetime" became the highest debuting single since the inception of the US Billboard chart.
• Won male vocalist of the year at the Country Music Awards for the third consecutive year in November 06.
• Keith married Hollywood star Nicole Kidman on Sunday June 25, 2006 at the St. Patrick's church in Manly - a suburb of Sydney - The couple shared the day with 230 guests which included Naomi Watts, Russell Crowe and Nicole's two children Isabella and Conor.