DUBAI PICS AND VIDS

Enjoy! :D


We Might As Well Be Strangers


Somewhere Only We Know


Everybody's Changing


Bend And Break (Timmy in action!!)


Perfect Symmetry

KEANE IN DUBAI

Taken from Time Out Dubai (to read the whole article click here)

"Well, starting off gingerly, the other two members of the band do actually have names – Tim Rice-Oxley (a rather lovely name, at that), their composer, bassist, and pianist, and Richard Hughes, their drummer. It is this man, Richard Hughes, who has been assigned with revealing whether Keane really do cut the mustard, as we speak to him ahead of their first ever Middle East show in Dubai this Wednesday.

While Hopes And Fears secured their pigeonhole as Britain’s masters of the piano rock ballad, Under The Iron Sea went darker with distorted piano sounds (and picked them up a strong Mexican following, intriguingly), now Perfect Symmetry introduces rock guitars and a relatively sunnier sound. But will they ever leave behind their signature piano sound? ‘We’ve never been a band that just has an idea for the sake of it, like “let’s stop using the piano!”, “Why?” “Oh, because it’s an idea”,’ he explains. ‘But if the piano doesn’t suit the songs then we won’t use it. So yeah, I can foresee a time when we have a record that doesn’t have piano on it. It’s entirely possible" (oh noooo!! I love the piano guy!)

Keane as mustard

If each member of the band was a certain type of the golden condiment, which would they be? Richard explains.

Richard: ‘I’m definitely wholegrain mustard. I’m a vegetarian, so I love it.’
Tom: ‘He’s English mustard. Tom likes a Sunday roast lathered in the stuff.’
Tim: ‘Tim would be Dijon mustard then, purely by default'

MICHAEL JACKSON, MINI ALBUM AND MORE...

From The National by Charlie Hamilton taken from here (Thanks Jill for the news!!)

DUBAI // The British chart-topping band Keane today spoke of their sorrow at learning of the death of Michael Jackson, the day after a lavish memorial service was held for the pop icon in Los Angeles.

The award-winning trio, who play their debut gig in the UAE tonight, told of how Jackson had been a powerful musical influence and how they were still mourning his loss.

“We are still pretty upset about [the death],” said the band’s songwriter Tim Rice-Oxley at a press conference ahead of the sell-out gig at the Madinat Arena.

“Growing up in the 1980s, he was a real influence. He was probably one of the reasons we got into pop music in the first place.”

The lead singer Tom Chaplin added: “He’s one of the few people who is going to be influencing music for about as long as pop music exists".

“Some one with that kind of talent and influence; it’s such a sad thing that a human life should end like that.

“When I was a kid, I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I used to practise the dances in front of the mirror.”

Rice-Oxley said the band, who are currently on a world tour promoting their third studio album, Perfect Symmetry, said they were told of the musician’s death while in Sweden about to perform a concert.

Chaplin said they were currently recording tracks during free time between concert dates and hoped to release a “mini-album” later in the year.

This is the group’s first visit to the Middle East and earlier this week Keane played a gig in Beirut.

They earned their reputation on the back of soft rock piano-led ballads such as ‘Everybody’s Changing’, ‘Somewhere Only We Know’ and ‘Is It Any Wonder’.

The band, which also features Richard Hughes on drums, won international acclaim for their first album Hopes and Fears in 2004, and their second, darker album Under the Iron Sea.