KEANE INTERVIEW AT NME

From NME,

We chat to Keane in their south London rehearsal studio about their forthcoming new album 'Strangeland', and how they've made a return to the sound of debut album 'Hopes And Fears'. Plus, they play a brand new track, 'Silenced By The Night'. Running time: 03:16

KEANE AT DE LA WARR PAVILION

Enjoy :)

List:

1. You are young
2. Disconnected
3. The starting line
4. On the road
5. Black rain
6. Day will come
7.Watch how you go
8. Silenced by the night
9. Sea Fog
10. Sovereign Light Café
11. Spiralling
12. Bedshaped
13. My shadow
14. Crystal ball

BBC BREAKFAST INTERVIEW

From BBCnews,

With Album sales of over ten million, Keane have become one of the Uk's biggest selling bands. Their fan base today might be global, but ten years ago, it was pretty much confined to a small part of East Sussex where the band grew up. And that's where Keane will kick off their latest world tour tonight, to mark the release of their new album. Tim Muffett's been to meet them.

STRANGELAND COVER

From Alex Lake's website,


Very pleased to announce I’ve been working with Keane through 2011 on the photography for their forthcoming album ‘Strangeland’. This is the cover and the record is released on 7th May 2012.

A proper blog on this to follow in good time.

KEANE TO PERFORM AT KROQ

From KROQradio.com,

British Alt-Rock band Keane is the next act to hit the Red Bull Sound Space at KROQ, which has boasted bands the likes of Coldplay, The Fray, Falling In Reverse and Angels & Airwaves. The event, taking place March 13th at 3:30PM PDT, will feature a live webcast of the band’s performance and a Q&A hosted by KROQ’s very own Stryker.

We’re also giving fans a shot at scoring tickets to this private performance! You and a guest will get to enjoy Keane with about 150 other people. Not too shabby huh?

The band will be promoting their new forthcoming album Strangeland, which is set to release May 8th. It’s been 4 years since the band’s last album, Perfect Symmetry, so fans have eagerly been awaiting new music from them.

ENTER TO WIN TICKETS

The event will be live webcast on kroq.com/soundspace on March 13th, beginning at 3:30pm PST.

SILENCED BY THE NIGHT

Listen to a sample of the song right here!!


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Duration: 3:16 minutes

US TV APPEARANCE ON MARCH 12TH

From KM.com,



On Monday, March 12th, Keane will be performing an indoor mini-gig for Jimmy Kimmel Live in Los Angeles - those of you in the U.S. will be able to watch it on ABC that night at 12/11c.

SCREENCAPS!

In the meantime, I'd like to share some screencaps from the trailer by Annette...

PINKPOP SLOT ANNOUNCED

From KM.com,

We can confirm that Keane will be appearing on the 3FM Stage at this year's Pinkpop festival in the Netherlands. The band are playing on Sunday 27th May. For more information on Pinkpop - including details of tickets, which go on sale on Saturday - head over to www.pinkpop.nl (available in Dutch, English and German).

I'll leave a vid for you to refresh your memory. Back in 2009, Keane performed this great song called 'You Haven't Told Me Anything' with a couple of synthesizers mistakes but who cares? lol

KEANE TO PLAY SXSW

From KM.COM,



UPDATE: The band have also now been confirmed to play at Stubb's on Saturday March 17th.
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We're very pleased to report that Keane are heading to Austin, Texas to play some shows to badge holders at March's SXSW festival.
The first show to be announced is at FILTER’s SXSW Showdown @ Cedar St. 2012 on Thursday, 15th March.

For more information on SXSW, see the website at sxsw.com.

Isa says: Take into account that the show will be broadcasted here. Check the schedule and time!

'This year’s broadcast will take place in the Great Room located on the second floor of the W Austin. We’ll be live 6am to 10am Wednesday thru Friday, and 8am to noon on Saturday'.

Saturday- 3/17
8 Kat Edmonson
8:30 Yellow Ostrich
9 Ben Howard
9:30 Ed Sheeran
10 Givers
10:30 Special Guests TBA
11 Keane
11:30 Special Guests TBA

Isa is back to a new land: STRANGELAND!!

I must apologise to the people who follow this humble blog. My life has not been easy lately but I will try to retain this source as relentless as it used to be because of my throbbing love to Mr. Rice-Oxley. I'll do my best to keep this updated ;)

Let's start...

From KM.com,



We are very pleased to announce that Keane's fourth studio album, Strangeland, will be released on May 7th 2012. The tracklisting is as follows:
1. You Are Young
2. Silenced By The Night
3. Disconnected
4. Watch How You Go
5. Sovereign Light Café
6. On The Road
7. The Starting Line
8. Black Rain
9. Neon River
10. Day Will Come
11. In Your Own Time
12. Sea Fog

As well as the standard CD and digital versions of the album, the album will be available as an Extended CD Version (with four bonus tracks); Vinyl LP; Deluxe CD/DVD Book (including the bonus tracks, five acoustic videos and a book packed with photographs and a short story by British author William Boyd).

- Click here to pre-order Strangeland from the Keane Shop

- Click here to pre-order Strangeland from Amazon.co.uk

2011

From KM.com,

MORE UPDATES!

From KM.com,

TIM: 'WE'VE BEEN VERY BUSY IN THE STUDIO...'

From KM.com,

Hello everyone. Apologies for the recent radio silence from Keane HQ. We've been very busy in the studio trying to bash a huge pile of new songs into shape. We started with a list of about 40 songs I think, and our job for the last few months has been to narrow that down to a shortlist of about 15.

It has taken us a while to find an atmosphere and an approach which feels right for the songs and which ties the whole thing together into one cohesive story, but things are finally starting to feel right. Songs that have eluded us through many different attempts are clicking into place at last. And it seems like we're all agreeing on a 'sound' for the album after a lot of experimenting with different approaches. There's still masses of work to do, but it's all really exciting and I feel like you guys are going to love it. I hope so anyway!

We were in the very posh Air studios in Hampstead last week. Rocksteady rhythm magicians Richard and Jesse did most of the work, but Tom did some singing too, and I muddled through a couple of piano parts in between trying to work out the chords for Bohemian Rhapsody (that way lies madness). Below are a few photos donated by Messrs Hughes and Quin.

We'll keep you posted…!

Lots of love,

Tim

A day full of surprises!!!

By casuality, today I was looking around the forum and found incredible surprises!


Here we go with the news....

IT'S CONFIRMED!!! The new single by Keane called Spiralling is out in August, Monday 4th!!! It'll be a free download at www.keanemusic.com so be quick!

More info at http://keaneshaped.co.uk/disco/spiralling.htm

And now this is a note the guys left for us:

Dear friends,

As you'll have gathered from our many and varied blogs, broadcasts and photos, we've been lost in a world of new music over the last few months - writing songs, pushing our limits, making fools of ourselves, and generally having a wicked time. We started out in Paris, where Jon Brion inspired us to create first and think later. We took the night train to Berlin, where everything came together in an avalanche of experimentation that took us all by surprise; where we made a pact with Stuart Price to ignore the rules of good taste; where we were hypnotised by Marlene Dietrich and spent many a long night throwing ideas around in the crumbling Cabaret-esque glamour of our favourite bar. We've hidden ourselves away in the depths of the English countryside, recorded a new track in London at the last possible moment, and now we're in Los Angeles tying up the loose ends. We've had an amazing time making this album and we're very, very proud of it. It's called Perfect Symmetry and will be released on October 13th.

Tom, Tim and Richard

ps - Keep an eye on keanemusic.com. We've got a treat coming.

In fact, the album is called PERFECT SYMMETRY!!! and it will be out on October 13th!!! so mark it in your diary or calendar!!!

ohh and there's a new official keane forum:
http://forum.keanemusic.com/

that's all for now.....I'll be looking for more news : )

a lovely week...

First of all, we're going to start with this made my daisy68:



Now, gear up yourself and enter Keane's website!!! (http://www.keanemusic.com/)
Yes, it's a note from Tim and here it is too

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15.2.08

After three weeks of working on songs in Susses, we're now in Paris recording. All sounding energised, weird, new and exciting. Can't sleep- brain racing with thoughts about synthesiser parts and drum fills. This does not bode well. Legendary American producer and musical genius Jon Brion arrived yesterday to contribute his whirlwind of crazy ideas, pushing us even further out of our comfort zone than we've already pushed ourselves. Learning a lot of him, which I always love.

Fun night out with the Puppini Sisters (in town playing a song) on Monday.
Many mojitos consumed, and much nonsensical fat-chewing. Lovely people. They sprang a gorgeus a capella rendition of Everybody's Changing on us, raising raucous applause from everyone in the crowded bar. Barmen in white lab coats still merrily serving us champagne at 3am. What a fine city.

Today we're going to raid the store for timpanis. For Tom to sing into.

Tim

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Geee!!! They're recording!!! I'm glad for the three of them. I'd like to hear the Puppini Sisters' cover of EC. I bet it sounded good.
ohh mojitos! I want one, please lol

Before leaving, yesterday Valentine's day was a good day. It was also my parents' wedding anniversary. They celebrated their 21st so our original idea was to go to a restaurant but when we went out it knocked me for six that every restaurant was very crowded. At a loose end about the situation, we bought a roast chicken and took it to home. We enjoyed it a lot and listened to Keane =D

I <3 Timmy!