KEANE INTERVIEW BY UNLIMITED

They're back and they've been talking to Unlimited about their new EP, knickers, Roy Keane and Torvill and Dean...

STOP FOR A MINUTE VIDEO

An amazing friend's just shared with me this link so I share it with you too ;) Pity Tim's not there :(

Enjoy,

Isaxx

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LOOKING BACK

YAY!
Now you can listen a preview of Looking Back here. The song starts at 1:11 aprox.
If you want the full song in mp3 just email me.

UPDATE:

NIGHT TRAIN WALLPAPER AND SIGGY

From KM.com,

We've put together a Night Train wallpaper and email signature which you can download and do whatever you like with!

Email signature:


Desktop wallpaper:

To download them in their full-size glory, right-click and then save them to your desktop.

Night Train will be released on CD and download on May 10 - and you can pre-order a special numbered edition of the EP through the Keane Store (for just £6.99 / €8.12 / US$11.44) right now by clicking here. NB: We will stop taking orders for the special km.com version at 5pm on April 1st.

In response to Dra_House below, the special km.com edition is a numbered digipack (rather than the non-numbered, standard CD jewel case which will be in the shops).

UPDATE: wanna see more about the artwork? Click here for going to Tourist!

TIM'S BOOK CLUB

From KM.com,

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

I read this quite a while ago, when I was writing songs for the second album. It's a very heavy family epic that follows a guy called the Swede. He runs a successful business in New York City and has a lovely family, and it basically charts the disintegration of his family and his values. I'm sure there have been lots and lots of books written about that kind of thing, but this particular one stands out because it's so psychologically complex and you never know what is going to happen next.

The character does everything that you think would be the right thing to do. You don't have that sense you often get with a film or maybe a less dense book, where you can see the mistakes being made and you think "Oh God, that's going to go wrong." He has as much intelligence as you could ask him to have. He attempts to do everything sensitively and tries to be a good parent and husband. But the twists and turns of the way that it all works out are really complex. It's essentially just a totally unglamourous story that could be happening to any of us really. But from a human and psychological point of view, it's incredibly interesting. It's also really quite depressing.

The book definitely shares some of that darkness that runs through Under The Iron Sea. Songs like Atlantic are probably closely related. And, actually, at one point Crystal Ball was called American Pastoral, after the book. The lyrics of that song were actually based around the phrase "American Pastoral" and some of the story, for quite a while. I can't remember why I changed it in the end.

I think my influences as a songwriter come from far and wide, but especially from books. I'm quite a slow reader, and I think I really engage with a book emotionally. Often a book will really be a big part of my life for however long it takes me to read it. Sometimes I'll be dipping into it for weeks and months, reading a few pages at a time, because I have a terribly short attention span. And when I'm not reading it, I'll find myself thinking about it, and talking to other people about it. I think all that does definitely come out in my songwriting.

Tim

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KEANE ACOUSTIC SESSIONS FOR THE SUN

Enjoy these acoustic sessions that Keane did for The Sun :)

Spiralling


Everybody's Changing


Stop For A Minute with K'naan

STOP FOR A MINUTE

From KM.com,

Now that Stop For A Minute has made its radio debut, we're able to give you a 90 second preview of the track right here on keanemusic.com. We hope you like.

Night Train (featuring Stop For A Minute) will be released on CD and download on May 10 - and you can pre-order a special numbered edition of the EP through the Keane Store (for just £6.99 / €8.12 / US$11.44) right now by clicking here.

(And, yes, we really did manage to stop a stopwatch on exactly one minute for the picture.)

Isa says: and now the version which was played in BBC Radio 1...

LYRICS

Some days, feels my soul has left my body
Feel I'm floating high above me
Like I'm looking down upon me

Start sinking, everytime I get to thinking
It's easier to keep on moving
Never stop to let the truth in

Sometimes I feel like it's all been done
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one
Sometimes I wanna change everything I've ever done
Too tired to fight and yet too scared to run

And if I stop for a minute
I think about things I really don't wanna know
And I'm the first to admit it
Without you I'm a liner stranded in an ice floe

I feel like I'm a thief who has no faith
Maybe more than by the grade
Of the drugs you took that day

Sinking in the pain he's been inflicting
Yet he's feeling like the victim
Just a horoscope's to blame

Sometimes I feel like a little lost child
Sometimes I feel like the chosen one
Sometimes I wanna shout out 'til everything goes quiet
Sometimes I wonder why I was ever born

And if I stop for a minute
I think about things really I don't wanna know
And I'm the first to admit it
Without you I'm a liner stranded in an ice floe

(rap)
One... yeah...
And baby you are just beautiful from crown to your cuticles
You held down my two sons, you never frown when duty calls
You know me, I gave you more than you can handle
But you still keep a handle on it, even when I take something beautiful and vandal on it
No more females? Well how come my emails got notes on a scandal
It's like Eve with the apple,
A priest in the chapel
Overcome by the devil's tackle
I'm still shackling the bad til I know
I'm such a hassle every time I let my thoughts go
I get baffled so I hardly pause
I just crossed seas with these gnarly broads
Cos it hurts me just to see what I finally lost
So I guess I'm just a fiend
Consumed by the scene
The stage and the screens
Where it's just me and Keane

And if I stop for a minute
I think about things I really don't wanna know
So I guess I'm just a fiend
Consumed by the scene
And I'm the first to admit it
Without you I'm a liner stranded in an ice floe
The stage and the screens
Where it's just me and Keane

CLEAR SKIES

New song from the Night Train EP,

LYRICS

High on the bell tower
I took my view
Over the downtowns
On the avenues

Where the streets are wide
And the people thrive
And its further to fall down
Cause you fly so high

Ive never seen such a beauty
Ive never seen such clear skies
Ive never seen such high hopes
Ive never seen such tired eyes

And I wish that I could be
Everything you are
Everything you are

Down in the delta
The city wakes
Turns on the TV
As the levees break

Where the streets are burned
From the hot summer sun
And theres nowhere to run to
When your time has come

Ive never seen such a beauty
Ive never seen such clear skies
Ive never seen such high hopes
Ive never seen such tired eyes

Open wounds of piece by piece
All those flesh all over me
Take my pills and went to sleep
Oh, and I sang myself to sleep

And I wish that I could be
Everything you are
Everything you are
And I wish that I could see
The world the way you do
As selfishly as you

Oooh

And I wish that I could be
Everything you are
Everything you are
And I wish that I could stick
My faith the way you do
As certainly as you

The sky is going to fall on you
The sky is going to fall on you
The sky is going to fall on you
On you, on you.
The sky is going to fall on you
The sky.

btw, if you want the mp3 just email me and I'll send it right back to you :)
PS. Thank you Alisha ;)

NEW PHOTOS, NEW BIOG

From KM.com,

Following yesterday's artwork announcement, we've just uploaded three brand new pictures to km.com, as well as the brand new band biog. The pictures were all taken by Takay.

Head to the BAND section to check out the pictures in all their glory (click for full-size versions) and to read the new biog.

You'll notice if you scroll beneath the English biog that we are, for the first time, offering a version Spanish language translation, in recognition of Keane's enormous Spanish-speaking fanbase. Let us know what you think - it's something we might be doing a bit more of going forward...

ARTWORK OF NIGHT TRAIN

From KM.com,

Yes, we're very pleased to reveal the final artwork for the Night Train EP. Isn't it lovely?

Night Train will be released on CD and download on May 10 - and you can pre-order a special numbered edition of the EP through the Keane Store right now by clicking here.