MT.DESOLATION BIOGRAPHY

From Mt.Desolaion's website,

As you know, Mt.Desolation has a new site which is incredible. I've just seen the bio section and found some great pics an of course the biography.
Click here to read it directly from their site or click below to see the images.

THE TOP 22 VIDEOCHAT

From KM.com,



Here's another really good interview which the band did on the recent North American jaunt - this time featuring Tom and Tim chatting about NIght Train and plans for the next album. (Best backdrop to a video interview ever?)

Two screencaps by me...

INTRODUCING MT.DESOLATION

From KM.com,

As many of you will already know, this October sees the global release of the rather lovely self-titled debut album by Mt. Desolation, the new alt-country side project from Tim and Jesse Quin. The album is out on October 18th, and you can hear one of its songs above (with Tim on lead vocals). There's also another in the Music section at the brand new mtdesolation.com website (ch-check it out for more info, pictures etc).

Mt. Desolation have also announced a 15-date tour of the UK and Ireland, taking in the following extremely intimate venues:

10 Sept - Dublin, Whelans
12 Sept - Nottingham, Bodega
14 Sept - Newcastle, Academy 2
15 Sept - Glasgow, King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
16 Sept - Inverness, Hootanannys
17 Sept - Stornoway, Woodlands Centre
18 Sept - Ullapool, Loopallu (festival show)
19 Sept - Fort William, Watercolour Studio
21 Sept - Isle of Mull, An Tobar
22 Sept - Dundee, Fat Sams
23 Sept - Aberdeen, The Tunnels
24 Sept - Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
25 Sept - Manchester, Deaf Institute
27 Sept - London, Scala
28 Sept - Brighton, Ballroom

Click here to get tickets - they cost just £10 (apart from London, £12; Dublin, €15; and Brighton, £9).

Then after the tour, of course, it'll be time to get on with making the next Keane album...

Listen to 'Departure'



Listen to 'State Of Our Affairs'

FREE DIGITAL LYRIC BOOK

From KM.com,

we've been asked a few times for the lyrics for Night Train, so we've put together this funky digital booklet with a few of my photographs from the Perfect Symmetry tour.
hope you all enjoy looking and reading through it.

lots of love,

richard

VOTE FOR KM.COM

From KM.com,

You might remember that, in 2007, keanemusic.com was crowned Best Official Website at the BT Digital Music Awards. The following year, we narrowly missed out on winning it again, finishing second. And we couldn't have done it without your votes.

Now, after a break in 2009, the award is back - and we'd very much appreciate your help in trying to win it again.

If you like what we do with the official site (and our social sites and the KWN etc) then we'd be very grateful if you'd vote for us to win, and help us regain our title! You can vote once a day, if you'd like to.

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Thank you.

WATCH LAST.FM SESSION

From KM.com,

During the American tour, the band found time to head into Last.fm's studio to chat about Night Train and record some exclusive acoustic performances. You can now watch the videos and hear the interview clips as part of Last.fm's Artist of the Week feature by clicking here.

RICHARD'S NORTH AMERICA PHOTOBLOG

From KM.com,

i made Tim choose a band to stand next to... everyone has been very patient with me snapping away for the last four weeks...

Tim took advantage of the grand piano that was in our dressing room.

MT.DESOLATION

From Mt.Desolation's website,

Some photos from Ante Up Studios in Cleveland, Ohio. Taken by the legend that is Richard Hughes. Spent the day in the studio and recorded two new songs called 'Wherever You Were Going' and 'Emily'.

MT.DESOLATION

From Mt. Desolation's website,

Tim and I had a day off in Cleveland, Ohio today so we decided to go into Ante Up Studios and record a couple of new songs that you'll hopefully hear at some point. The songs are called 'Wherever You Were Going' and 'Emily'. Jim, Adam and Colin at Ante Up were really nice. We'll post some more photos tomorrow when the internet starts working properly again.

Love,

Jesse

DISCONNECTED - NEW KEANE SONG

Yes, finally Tom said the name of the new Keane song called "Disconnected" debuted in Philadelphia, PA. August 2010. I think it's awesome!!! Check the lyrics in the previous post. Enjoy it and thanks Alphamoongrrrl for upload it!!

NEW UNKNOWN KEANE SONG

The band surprise us again with a possible new song during the soundcheck at Brooklyn Waterfront.

Listen the complete song below



Listen just a bit but clearer



Now the possible lyrics by RWlover...

Something's crept in under our door
Silence soaking through the floor
Pinching like a stone in my shoe
Some chemical is breaking down the glue
That's been binding me to you

I feel like I just don't know you anymore
I've been wrong and I've been there too many times
We walk in circles
The blind leading the blind
We've been disconnected somehow

There's an invisible wall between us now
I've been wrong and I've been there too many times
We walk in circles
The blind leading the blind

Well I thought that love watched over this house
But you're boarding up the windows now
We're leaning on each other so hard
Tied so tight we wound up miles apart
Making simple things so hard

I feel like I just don't know you anymore
I've been wrong and I've been there so many times
We walk in circles
The blind leading the blind
We've been disconnected somehow

There's an invisible wall between us now
I've been burned and I've been there too many times
We walk in circles
The blind leading the blind

I see the landscape change before my eyes
The features I've been navigating by
Nothing looks the way it did before
I don't know where to look or what to look for

I feel like I just don't know you anymore
I've been burned and I've been down too many times
We walk in circles
The blind leading the blind
We've been disconnected somehow

There's an invisible wall between us now
I've been wrong and I've been there too many times
We walk in circles
The blind leading the blind
We've been disconnected somehow

There's an invisible wall between us now

RICHARD'S NORTH AMERICA PHOTOBLOG

New pic by Rich. If you want to see the complete photoblog click here :)

LIVE EP ON SALE NOW

From KM.com,

We're pleased to report that Keane's special iTunes Festival acoustic performance from last month is now available to download from iTunes stores around the world (apart from USA and Canada, where it's due to hit the store on Tuesday 10 August).

Click here to download the 11-track EP from your local iTunes store. (That's a link to the EP in UK store, but it should direct you to it in your store if it's available there. You should also be able to listen to 30 second clips of the songs at that link, wherever you are.)

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. This Is The Last Time
2. Clear Skies
3. Try Again
4. Is It Any Wonder?
5. You Don't See Me
6. Atlantic
7. Everybody's Changing
8. You Haven't Told Me Anything
9. My Shadow
10. Somewhere Only We Know
11. Love Is The End

RICHARD'S TIMELAPSE

From KM.com,

Yes, Richard has made us another cracking timelapse film - this one was done at last week's Chicago Theatre show and is soundtracked by Looking Back from Night Train.



We can watch Tim there :3

TIM'S BOOK CLUB #7

From KM.com,

Any Human Heart by William Boyd

I have talked about this in interviews before, but it's so good that I couldn't not mention it again here. In fact, I think it's probably my favourite book of all time. It's a fictional compilation of a guy's diary from throughout his whole life. The style develops through the book as you would expect it to with a person writing their diaries. So, he starts off writing it at school and it's all very schoolboyish. Then it focuses more on his dreams as he becomes a man and starts to go off and do things with his life. And then he gets much more cynical and becomes an alcoholic. But it's just such a human story about a normal guy being buffeted around by strokes of fate. There are high points and lighthearted points, but also some incredibly dark and sad passages.

It's one of those books that really makes you think about your own life - that anything could happen at any moment that could send your life on a complete tangent. This guy starts off as a schoolboy in South America and then he ends up in London, then he's a prisoner of war in Germany, then he goes off to New York for a bit, before heading to Africa. And I think he eventually ends up in the South of France. I can't quite remember. I'm making a point of not reading it again for a while, so that I can really get back into it when I do. I don't read books twice very often - in fact, almost never - but this one is just so, so good. If I had to recommend one book to anyone, it would be Any Human Heart.

Tim

For more info on William Boyd, click here to visit his official website.

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