Academy Events and the Gig Cartel in association with The Agency Group have announced EUROPE’s Balls N’ Banners UK Tour 2011. Hot off their knockout performance at this year’s iTunes Festival in London, and leading up to their appearance at this year’s Sonisphere Festival, Sweden’s biggest hard rock band will undertake a nationwide UK tour in February 2011 (their first since 2010’s Last Look At Eden tour).

A special pre-sale for Europe fans will happen on Wednesday 28th July, followed by tickets that will go on sale to the general public from 9am on Friday, July 30th. All tickets are priced £17.50, with the exception of London (£18).

The tour follows last year’s critically acclaimed new studio album Last Look At Eden which features the singles 'New Love In Town' and the majestic title track.

Best known for their 1986 smash anthem The Final Countdown, the Swedish rockers received unanimous praise for a heavier bluesy, hip-shaking metal sound, and recently performed at festivals around the globe during the summer of 2010, including the UK’s own iTunes and Sonisphere Festivals.

Europe vocalist Joey Tempest believes that it is the strength of the band’s last album that is responsible for their current success – “You can’t make this stuff up! Our latest CD Last Look At Eden has really turned things around for us.”

Continues Tempest, “You have to remember… We're just five punks who grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm listening to British rock. Now here we are playing the iTunes festival and Sonisphere... It's absolutely mind-blowing. We're gonna bring something very special when we return to the U.K in February 2011, we're having the time of our lives right now and the audience will experience a Europe-camp that's ON FIRE!”

Balls N’ Banners UK Tour 2011

February

17 - Glasgow - O2 ABC
18 - Birmingham - O2 Academy
19 - London - O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
21 - Oxford - O2 Academy
22 - Bournemouth - O2 Academy
23 - Bristol - O2 Academy
25 - Manchester - Academy 2
26 - Leeds - O2 Academy
27 - Newcastle - O2 Academy