SINGER, songwriter, producer, occasional rapper and all round king of the club banger Example wants to get up close and personal at much smaller venues for his latest UK tour.

Elliot John Gleave aka Example (his initials EG gave him his stage name) will be playing the O2 Academy Bournemouth on Monday night.

Renowned for his monstrous live sets, Example is set to transform venues across the country into colossal party scenes.

“I haven’t covered the UK properly for such a long time.

“The last two arena tours were superb, but we missed some corners of the UK and a lot of people can’t travel hours to see a gig, especially on a weekday,” he says of the tour.

He promises fans that he is not going to bombard them with obscure songs and loads of new stuff they do not know, and they can be sure that he will be singing all his hits.

These will include his two top ten singles from the second studio album Won’t Go Quietly, the title track and Kickstarts, his two number one singles, Changed the Way You Kiss Me and Stay Awake, and his chart hits from the current album Live Life Living, which was released this summer.

“I think the key thing for people to remember is: I am not the sort of artist who’s just going to play the whole of a new album. I think you have got to play for the fans.

“You meet a lot of bands and they do weird shows where they are doing a B-side no one’s ever heard. I think; play all the hits, five or six songs off the new album, and give people what they want. People paying to see a gig don’t want to hear some weird cover of something or a track released seven years ago that no one bought.”

Example will be backed by his full band and says the gigs will be ‘spectacular 90 minute’ shows and ‘all singing and all dancing’, featuring lasers, flames and lots of lighting effects.

But on second thoughts, he adds: “Actually, I don’t know about the dancing! I’m quite bouncy, but I don’t know if that is dancing.”

His new single, 10 Million People, is released this month. He says of the track: “10 Million People was written after watching a documentary on early 90s rave culture.

“I found this video online where they were interviewing people at an illegal rave.

“The guy with the microphone said to one of the revellers: ‘Surely this whole rave thing is just a fad?’ “And the raver replied: ‘Well 10 million people can’t be wrong.”

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