TIM'S BEST OF 2011

From KM.com,



We round off our Best of 2011 Q&As with Tim's selections. See below for links to the others'.

1. Favourite album of 2011?

The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Loads of great songs, which is a rarity. No dead wood whatsoever. Very inspiring.

2. Favourite single?

Probably Video Games, like everyone else in the world! Just an amazing song, anchored in the deeply mundane but transporting and heavenly at the same time.

3. Best gig you saw?

Erasure at Brighton Dome. Possibly the most underrated band of all time, and it's a crying shame they're not a considered a national treasure in the UK. One massive singalong hit after another. Honourable mention to Arcade Fire in Hyde Park. What a great band.

4. Best moment in the studio?

We spent an entire day rehearsing hundreds of different versions of one particular song, but I can remember when we went back into the control room to listen to the final version it felt so energised and exciting it just blew everyone's socks off. I reckon it will be the first song on the album…but probably too early to say for sure!

5. Best film you saw?

Blue Valentine was pretty amazing.

6. Best journey you made?

I've hardly been anywhere this year! One journey that sticks in my head was walking back from my local pub one very clear summer night through a huge rolling field and seeing a huge white moon hanging low over the hills and lighting up everything almost as if it was day time.

7. Best TV show you watched?

Mad Men.

8. Best thing you heard on the radio?

The first time I heard 'Baby Missiles' by The War On Drugs I felt incredibly excited. Those moments can revitalise your love of music…and of life, in fact.

9. Best book you read?

The Grapes Of Wrath [by John Steinbeck]. A truly overwhelming book, and a magical tribute to human dignity.

10. Best thing you bought yourself?

A pair of 5-a-side football goals.

11. Best thing someone else bought for you?

My wife bought me a bag of Montezuma's Milk Chocolate buttons for Christmas. I seriously love those things. I want to marry them.

12. Best website you visited or app/podcast you downloaded?

damnyouautocorrect.com. I'm a man of simple pleasures.

13. Best thing that happened in 2011 for Keane?

The salt beef sandwiches from the deli near RAK Studios.

14. Best thing that happened in 2011 for you?

Taking a few sacks of home-grown apples and pears to a local farm and coming home with gallons of fresh juice.

15. Finally, what are you looking forward to in 2012?

Playing cricket.

PLATE REVERB

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UTIS FIFTH BIRTHDAY: THE ALBUM PODCAST

From KM.COM,

We continue our special Under The Iron Sea fifth birthday week with these fascinating interviews with Tim about the songs on the album. They were released as weekly podcasts ahead of the album's release. You can listen to them on the SoundCloud player above, or they're still available to download for free from iTunes by clicking here.

RICHARD'S CHINA PHOTOBLOG

From KM.com,

And I'll be there for you, Tim...

...as the world falls down!

Started college again last Wednesday. Well, I didn't go cos I was bored. Thursday really was a big surprise cos I visited the school I'll teach the following Thursdays. I'll teach 2nd grade...full of naughty kids!!
In the afternoon, my friend Candy visited me and we sang Keane songs a lot.
Friday came and I have already had loads of homework. That day Candy left hometown.
But Saturday really was the worst day of my entire life. In the morning, there was a tremor in the capital but that doesn't compare to the news I read.
Now it's 100% true that Tim has a daughter called Martha.
Of course I'm extremely happy for him but on the other hand, I admit this is difficult for me cos I feel like I'm losing something or that there's an empty space in my heart. I don't know what to think now...I just want to cry and take away this infinite pain... T-T
ohh I wanna die!!!!! My brain can't control my heart! Tim, I love you so much!!!

I gotta go right now...I'm feeling down in the dumps

Isax

Some vids

"This is the serious face of Tim, concentrating very hard on putting some keyboard parts on stuff, slowly eating some golden wonder at the same time."- Tom Chaplin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHUfWbaa-aY

"tim dancing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mw7FoxBwSQ

gifs by maidsa

Latest news

Well, I haven't updated this blog recently but I'll try to resume it.
Keane's website appearance has been changing lately. There are blogs of the band (the new one is from Rich), a video (Tim buying a new keyboard: a T8!!!)and pics of course, taken by Jesse Quin. Here's the link if you wanna see all the pics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessequin/
Personally, I love this one:

Look! Tim is chatting with me xD LOL

And to take our breath away, these pics are the icing on the cake in our lives.

First of all, my Timmy. Just looking at their eyes makes me faint down. They're glinting nicely. Everyone in my house said 'Oh, what beautiful eyes!'

Second, Tommy

Third, Rick

Changing the topic, on Thursday 21st (February)I went to the event of 'Harry Potter y las reliquias de la muerte' ('Harry Potter and the deathly hallows' in Spanish). I really set my heart on that book so I asked my mum to buy it for me and she accepted. I love her because she always supports me in my obsessions.
The thing is we arrived to the bookshop called 'Crisol' around 4pm. I was lucky cos I was one of the first people in the queue. I received a ticket to enter in a drawing. The prize was all the collection of the Harry Potter book series. I didn't win but it didn't upset me cos I already have them all. It's good to see people don't have them win and that makes me happy somehow.
Then, we saw a few videos related with Harry Potter and J.K Rowling and of course some scenes of the movies.
The book sale started around 7pm. I was on top of the world when I had my book in my hands for the first time that I didn't realise a journalist was in front of me. She asked me how I was feeling and what I expected of the book. I remenber I looked directly to the camera and started talking like a crazy parrot. My aunt said I spoke too fast *ashamed*
Well, after that I stayed to see the fancy dress contest and of course to watch the Live Earth dvd which was played on the music section of the bookshop. I shouted when I heard Bedshaped (Keane obsession hehe)
On balance, it was one of my happy days in this year.
I finished reading it in 5 days and that was due to my duties :(
But I really enjoyed it and cried my eyes out because of all the terrible deaths of some characters I love. It's an amazing book T_T Now I'm waiting for my encyclopaedia.