Miles Kane

"All roads, over 20 years, have led here," Kane says of Sunlight In The Shadows. Born in The Wirral, across the River Mersey from Liverpool, he was 18 when he joined his first band, The Little Flames in 2004, touring with Arctic Monkeys and The Coral (whose founding members include Kane's cousins James and Ian Skelly). Kane stepped forward in his next band, becoming the singer, lead guitarist and main writer of The Rascals. Another tour with Arctic Monkeys led to Kane and Turner working on song ideas backstage, then at a studio in France where they made The Last Shadow Puppets' 2008 debut, The Age of the Understatement, in two weeks.

Kane says that "when me and Alex were doing the first Puppets album, we'd go to each other's mum's house, sit in the bedroom and there'd be acoustics and notepads. The way it was set up in that kitchen, at Easy Eye, it took me back to that place, how it all started."

Auerbach made sure the guitars were up to the challenge, the explosive break in the middle of "Blue Skies" – a bolt of vicious stringbending and feedback harmonics – is played by Bukovac, a longtime running buddy of Auerbach and The Black Keys, originally from Cleveland. "I had that one opening on that song," Auerbach explains. "I was like, 'Tom, I need you. Come represent for Ohio.' That solo is all Northeast Ohio."

"This record was incredible to make," Auerbach declares, "from start to finish. I felt like I gained a life-long friend in Miles. And that doesn't always happen. When it does, it's amazing. This is an artist who could potentially make records forever."

But Sunlight In The Shadows is an album cut live in the studio to be performed live on stage. "I want to go out there and show everyone how good this record I,” Miles exclaims.” Because it really is.”

At home on the stage, Miles will bring his blistering live show across the UK and Europe through January, February and March 2026 for a run of headline dates. Kicking off at the O2 Academy in Glasgow on Saturday January 24th, the tour will stop off at London’s Roundhouse on Friday January 30th and Manchester’s Albert Hall on Saturday January 31st. Tickets and information available HERE.