Tim is shirtless and has a cool handwriting!!

Hi all!

Today's piccies are very interesting =)
First one was posted in Keanemusic but it seems it was removed some minutes later. Happily some nice boardies saved it. The pic shows maybe some notes of a possible song of the third album.
Personally, I love Tim's handwriting. It's really cool...I write kinda like that.

and here it's the possible hidden message:

I love Isa. I'm her boyfriend.

Ok, bad joke! here's the true message. Thanks Patricia from K-Argentina.

AAA

M8 Lo sound?

Piano in M8

Piano in later chorus?

Picking guitar bits?

Pad/Hi ???? in C2

BVs on M8

(where M8 = Middle Eight, C2 could be Second Chorus, BVs = Backing Vocals)

The second update was this pic. It shows a mic, obviously a Tom Chaplin's mic (it's his property lol)
Of course, when I saw the pic I noticed first Tim in the back and I thought he was S H I R T L E S S !
OMG!! It's true the quotation 'Eyes see what they want to' lol
Ahhh *sighs*

Hands of God!!

These lovely hands are where the heaven's music comes from!!!!

awww...he has quite big hands but the ring is a thing I particularly don't like noticing on him.

Which tune is he playing? a song for me? hahaha maybe Perfect Symmetry. Who knows!

And the piano is open...it reminds me the tv ad 1 in the Strangers dvd.

*sighs*

It's just another day, a Tim blog in my way!!

I'm happy the campaign is going well. Tim gives more information abput it in his new blog. Here it is:

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Hello everyone. Just a note to say thank you so much to anyone who helped out with the Chicken Out! campaign's bid to put their case to Tesco - they've raised the money in time, which is a fantastic achievement. Hopefully Britain's biggest supermarket will be inspired to abandon barbaric farming practices, and others will follow.

I was listening to Parallel Lines yesterday as I drove to the studio. It sounds incredibly fresh even now. To my ears it has a slightly chaotic and imperfect feel to it, which I think is probably what gives it so much energy. For the super-geeky among you, there's a great article in Sound On Sound this month about the making of the record. Lots of insights into the band dynamic, how the songs developed, etc - not just details about which mic they used on the snare drum!

There's a lovely slow song we've been working on that we're trying to do in a kind of Mercury Rev-type way. Although it's begging to burst into some kind of Only Living Boy In New York - style BV extravaganza at the end. It's very sad. We recorded some (more) musical saw for it on Monday at my house (note from Isa: he means his and my house...lol) . I first heard ths instrument in the movie Delicatessen, and this song has at last provided a perfect opportunity to use one. We've had two brilliant musical saw players down to play, and it does sound utterly hypnotic and ethereal.

Anyway, we're getting there, inch by inch.

tim

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Chicken Out! blog by Tim

Another new blog by the gorgeus Timmy!!!

Dear friends,

You may remenber that back in January we lent our support to the excellent Chicken Out! campaign (http://www.chickenout.tv/)- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's campaign urging higher welfare conditions for chickens farmed in the UK, and fairer conditions for the farmers who rear them.

Chicken Out! has already had a big impact, but the vast proportion of chicken bought in the UK is still intensively farmed. Rearing chickens using intensive farming methods is, in our opinion, a barbaric way to treat animals.

A commitment from supermarkets to sell only chickens that have lived in conditions that meet the RSPCA Freedom Foods standards would make a massive difference to the way we buy and consume chicken in the UK. No supermarket has more power than Tesco, who control over 30% of the groceries market in this country. Hugh recently submitted a resolution to Tesco urging the supermarket to improve their minimum welfare standards for the chicken they sell.

This resolution should come up for consideration at the forthcoming Tesco Annual General Meeting, but even though the resolution was submitted before the deadline, Tesco have sent out their AGM papers without including the resolution on the agenda. In order for the resolution to be included, Tesco say, Hugh will have to pay 86,888 euros that it will apparently cost to post revised papers to all their shareholders. He has to pay that money by midday on Wednesday.

Undeterred, Hugh is attempting to raise 86,888 euros that will enable the message of Chicken Out! to be heard by the shareholders at the Tesco AGM. He has put in a huge amount of his own money, and is also trying to raise funds by auctioning various prizes on the Chicken Out! website. We've contributed a pair of our Keane gold discs, along with a small donation, which we hope will help a little. As far as the gold discs go I think it will be one that's inscribed to me and one that's inscribed to Richard, but we're still sorting it out at this very moment. For the culinary-minded among you there are some other brilliant prizes which may tempt you.

Anyway, I hope I've explained the situation reasonably clearly- it's a bit compicated! If you feel as strongly about this as we do, please sign up for the Chicken Out! campaign, or of course have a look at the auction prizes, or pass all this on to any you know who might be interested.

Thank you for reading this- we genuinely appreciate it.

Tim

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He's such a sweetheart. Apart from being intelligent, genius, handsome and sexy, he's very kind. I love his thoughts. Hope those two gold discs will be in good hands!

and please folks, sign up to this meaningful campaign!

Bye

A week without Keane

New blog from Timmeh!!!

Dearly beloved,

Things are coming on space. It might even be accurate to say the album's nearly done. We need to step back and get a little perspective, so we're taking a week out from the studio. However there is still much to keep us occupied- I've been tinkering with Black Burning Heart at home, and there's a matter of the musical saw to attend to. We're very excited. I think this one could be a bit special. I need to calm down.

Is it too much to hope that Mr. Obama could repair some some of the damage America has done to itself and the world?

I really love the Ting Tings album. What a giant breath of fresh air. It's been that and Remain In Light the last couple of weeks. I actually got quite depressed listening to Remain In Light the other day- how can there be so many brilliant ideas on one short record? How can anyone be expected it to match it? Ridiculous.

Can I just ask- what the hell is the fuss about Jay-Z headlining Glastonbury? Are we still living in 1995? A couple of hours of witty, intelligent, irresistible pop from the greatest rapper alive (ever???) or yet another barrage of Oasis? I've never understood how this country can spasmodically produce the most innovative music on the planet and yet also be so terrifyingly conservative. Maybe the two go hand-in-hand? Discuss.

I have a massive backlog of DVDs to watch. But I did finally manage to watch The Fearless Freaks last weekend. What a gorgeus, inspiring document. Every music fan should see it and revel in its sunlight. More to the point, every person in a band should see it, preferably before they play a note. One of my few regrets in life is that Wayne Coyne asked us to dress up in animal costumes and dance onstage with them at a festival and we couldn't stick around for long enough to do it. I can't wait to hit the road again.

Supersize love to you all,

Tim

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Of course I know for who is the 'Supersize love' part...ehem! for me! *cough* and the 'dearly beloved' too xD

Happy Belated Birthday Timmy!!!!

woooo!!!! I'm super happy cos I opened his birthday thread in the OFFICIAL forum!!! You can view it here
waaa!!! will he read it? I hope so *fingers crossed*
I wrote this:

Dear Mr. Rice-Oxley:

I want to wish you the best for you in this incredible day. I would also like to thank you for doing excelent music and writing beautiful lyrics. I admire you a lot because you are very talented and humble. For me you are the best pianist in the whole world. I particularly love the way you play the piano. The passion you feel, you truly transmit it to your listeners. That happens to me everytime I hear a Keane song. It’s incredible how a song can leave a mark and connect people from different places of the world. That’s a big achievement. I’ve never been to a Keane gig and I do not know how to play the piano but from the bottom of my heart I can say I am just an ordinary but grateful person who is in love with Keane because its music changed my perspective of thinking and brought me to life again. Tim, you deserve everything from this world for being the man you are. Don’t change your personality if it isn’t for good. I wish someday you can come to Peru in Keane South America’s tour. I apologize for my horrible English. I hope you have an amazing day.

Good Luck with the third album.
Best wishes,

Isabel
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Those were my humble lines to him. I was so nervous writing my feelings for him that I can't control my thoughts and my brain. Anyway, I tried to pretend being an interesting and serious girl who respect him a lot. If I had written 'I love you, Tim. Will you marry me?' I would have been the silliest girl in the world. That could have been boring for him...he must have heard that phrase lots of times.
Well, I want to share a video I made for him. Don't laugh! I did it for love!

http://es.tinypic.com/player.php?v=mmehvr&s=3

let's continue celebrating!!!

*dancing*