Isa and Tim Rice-Oxley: November 2009

Sunday 29 November 2009

KEANE ANNOUNCE NEW 8-TRACK EP AND ENGLISH FOREST TOUR

From KM.com,

Following the worldwide success of their third consecutive Number One album, Perfect Symmetry, Keane are pleased to announce details of a new eight-song EP and a tour of English forests.

The Night Train EP will be released globally on 10th May 2010. It features eight powerful new tracks which were written and recorded during the Perfect Symmetry world tour that saw the band playing to packed arenas in 28 countries, from Australia to Norway, Colombia to South Korea and Lebanon to Switzerland. The EP takes its title from the band's favoured mode of transport during the tour.

The EP includes Keane's genre-busting collaborations with Somali/Canadian rapper K'Naan, ‘Stop For A Minute’ and ‘Looking Back’. "I think those tracks show us in a completely different light," says Keane frontman Tom Chaplin.

Other definite highlights include ‘Ishin Denshin (You've Got To Help Yourself)’, which features Japanese MC Tigarah, as well as the gorgeous 'Your Love', which hangs around a rare lead vocal from the band's Ivor Novello-winning songwriter Tim Rice-Oxley.

Due for release on CD and download, the Night Train EP will be available to pre-order through keanemusic.com, from Wednesday 2nd December. NB: Please note, the artwork in the picture above is the cover of the promo EP, and is not the final artwork.

The band have also announced plans for a summer tour of forests in 2010, including a homecoming show at the Bedgebury Pinetum, just outside the band’s hometown of Battle, East Sussex. Dates are as follows:

10th June – Thetford Forest, Suffolk
11th June – Bedgebury Pinetum, Kent
18th June - Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire
19th June – Sherwood Pines Forest, Nottinghamshire
25th June – Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire
26th June – Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire

Tickets for the shows will be available from 9am on Wednesday 2nd December through keanemusic.com, before going on general sale from Friday 4th December via 01842 814612, www.forestry.gov.uk/music and www.keanemusic.com. Tickets will be £32 (subject to booking fee). A full support bill will be announced.

(Big Keane news announcements are like buses - you wait ages for one and then two come along at once...)

Wednesday 11 November 2009

DOWNLOAD BARCELONA KEANE GIG

Thank you very much to manu45 and wrightk15 from the OB for uploading the following files:

Video: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TEF7OQ5W

mp3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HVDPSXD8

SOVEREIGN LIGHT CAFE PROSHOT live in Barcelona

A new vid from Barcelona but this time with very good quality! :D Enjoy!

Tuesday 10 November 2009

MORE TIM INTERVIEWS

Yeah guys, I know it is a shame but I wasn't able to listen to Timmeh (and Richard too, don't kill me LOL) on Absolute Radio due to college stuff arrghh. Anyways, the magic of the Internet let us listen to it over and over again so thanks to KeaneShadow (click on the name to follow it on Twitter, it's one of the best sources for Keane news) who uploaded the interview for all of you to download and enjoy. Click here.

Amanzingly, there is another interview to listen, short but always good. This time is from Real Radio 105.4fm. Tim and Rich talk about Somewhere Only We Know. You can listen to it here.

Happy day! :)

(I just feel the need to say that LOL)

RICHARD'S H&F PHOTOBLOG

From KM.com,

London / Monday / 0930

Seeing as the label are re-releasing Hopes and Fears, I thought I would dig out a few old photos from 2003/4/5. I thought you might like to see them. I'll try to put a couple up each day this week, starting with 3 shots from the video shoot for somewhere only we know... (i happened to move that snare drum the other day, and it's still covered in the mud from the shoot).

Paris, obviously!

London / Tuesday / 1015

don't know where this was, but it's definitely Hopes and Fears era... note hi-tech solution of putting laptop on some random bits of foam! looks like the trusty fold-up white table had been retired at this point.

one of us always seems to be on the phone!

Tuesday / 1915

not gonna have time tomorrow, so here are wednesday's pics...

with our lovely TM of the day - Stew, in a tent, somewhere! wierd that we ended up going to Lincoln, Nebraska, home of the Cornhuskers long after Tim had predicted it through the medium of a T-shirt.

Saturday 7 November 2009

MINI ALBUM AND RELATED THOUGHTS FROM MR. RICE-OXLEY

From Echo weekly by Shain Shapiro. To read the full interview click here.

Some interesting quotes from the interview:

This mini–album is not just a stopgap solution in between albums, stressed Rice–Oxley. Instead, it’s a completely new work in its own right, and one in which the band is excited to see unleashed as another addition to their catalogue. “Most of it is recorded and mixed already, as we’ve worked really hard on it while we’ve been traveling, going into studios all over the world and working on the tour bus all night,” adds Rice–Oxley.

“There’ll be a bunch of new songs, all the old favourites, maybe a cover and maybe a few songs played acoustically,” continues Rice–Oxley.

and this is the part that makes me love him more:

"To me, we really have just begun” concludes Rice–Oxley. “You always have to write as the person you really are, and not believe the hype about being a rock star or whatever, as that doesn’t mean anything. When I listen to music I want to hear about things I can relate to, and I want to know that the writer is giving me access to their most personal and honest thoughts and ideas. It's not always easy to do that when you live in the bubble that comes with being in a band, but that's what I hope we will always do.”