TIM ON PODCAST XMAS SPECIAL!!!

From KM.com,

Yesterday afternoon, Tim headed along to Beyond The Iron Sea Towers to record a special Christmas edition of Chris and Andrew's much-loved unofficial Keane podcast. Head over to beyondtheironsea.com to download it for free.

Tim is alive!!! and with a new look which reminds me a bit of UTIS era. I hope they keep on touring a bit more, so people let's support The Night Train :D

TIM'S BOOK CLUB

From KM.com,

We're very pleased to reveal a new regular feature here on keanemusic.com. Over the coming weeks and months, Tim will be telling us a little bit about some of his favourite books. If you folks then read them, feel free to let us know what you thought of them in the comments below. It'll be like a Keane online reading group. And so to Tim's first choice...

The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster

I read this book in the summer of 2009, when I was staying in Brooklyn for a few weeks. It was given to me by our manager as a birthday present.

Paul Auster is a brilliant writer, who's also written a couple of great films, but this was the first book of his that I'd read. I like stories that have a lot of different threads, which kind of intertwine as it goes on. And I also like ones that are quite psychological, in that they'll be written in the first person and you'll get a real insight into someone's mind. With books like that, you really feel like you learn something about the way people think.
And probably even about the way you think yourself. The Brooklyn Follies is definitely like that, but it's also a really cracking story - it's almost a thriller, I suppose, written in a way that's very beautiful and powerful. I've always enjoyed books that are based on seemingly very ordinary people, like the retired insurance salesman at the centre of the Brooklyn Follies. The story explores dramas that could really happen to anyone, just through good luck or bad luck - and then looks at how those chance occurrences effect the way the characters act and think.

The book is set right in Park Slope which is where we were staying when we were over in Brooklyn. It was quite exciting knowing that I was walking along the same streets as I was reading about. The atmosphere of that particular community is a very important part of the book, and quite a lot of Auster's books, as far as I can gather. So it was nice being able to picture the actual buildings that he was writing about and to almost feel like part of it. I think being in Brooklyn while I read it probably did help me to appreciate the book more. And I suppose, in a way, it helped me to appreciate Brooklyn more too. The story helped give a sense of it being a real place, full of real people, rather than just a tourist destination.

I absolutely loved it. I read the whole thing in about two days, which is very quick for me, as I'm a very slow reader normally. And I've since acquired a huge pile of all his other books. I'm very much looking forward to working my through them.

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Buy The Brooklyn Follies from Amazon UK / USA / Canada / Germany / France

KEANE ANNOUNCE NEW 8-TRACK EP AND ENGLISH FOREST TOUR

From KM.com,

Following the worldwide success of their third consecutive Number One album, Perfect Symmetry, Keane are pleased to announce details of a new eight-song EP and a tour of English forests.

The Night Train EP will be released globally on 10th May 2010. It features eight powerful new tracks which were written and recorded during the Perfect Symmetry world tour that saw the band playing to packed arenas in 28 countries, from Australia to Norway, Colombia to South Korea and Lebanon to Switzerland. The EP takes its title from the band's favoured mode of transport during the tour.

The EP includes Keane's genre-busting collaborations with Somali/Canadian rapper K'Naan, ‘Stop For A Minute’ and ‘Looking Back’. "I think those tracks show us in a completely different light," says Keane frontman Tom Chaplin.

Other definite highlights include ‘Ishin Denshin (You've Got To Help Yourself)’, which features Japanese MC Tigarah, as well as the gorgeous 'Your Love', which hangs around a rare lead vocal from the band's Ivor Novello-winning songwriter Tim Rice-Oxley.

Due for release on CD and download, the Night Train EP will be available to pre-order through keanemusic.com, from Wednesday 2nd December. NB: Please note, the artwork in the picture above is the cover of the promo EP, and is not the final artwork.

The band have also announced plans for a summer tour of forests in 2010, including a homecoming show at the Bedgebury Pinetum, just outside the band’s hometown of Battle, East Sussex. Dates are as follows:

10th June – Thetford Forest, Suffolk
11th June – Bedgebury Pinetum, Kent
18th June - Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire
19th June – Sherwood Pines Forest, Nottinghamshire
25th June – Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire
26th June – Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire

Tickets for the shows will be available from 9am on Wednesday 2nd December through keanemusic.com, before going on general sale from Friday 4th December via 01842 814612, www.forestry.gov.uk/music and www.keanemusic.com. Tickets will be £32 (subject to booking fee). A full support bill will be announced.

(Big Keane news announcements are like buses - you wait ages for one and then two come along at once...)

DOWNLOAD BARCELONA KEANE GIG

Thank you very much to manu45 and wrightk15 from the OB for uploading the following files:

Video: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TEF7OQ5W

mp3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HVDPSXD8

SOVEREIGN LIGHT CAFE PROSHOT live in Barcelona

A new vid from Barcelona but this time with very good quality! :D Enjoy!

MORE TIM INTERVIEWS

Yeah guys, I know it is a shame but I wasn't able to listen to Timmeh (and Richard too, don't kill me LOL) on Absolute Radio due to college stuff arrghh. Anyways, the magic of the Internet let us listen to it over and over again so thanks to KeaneShadow (click on the name to follow it on Twitter, it's one of the best sources for Keane news) who uploaded the interview for all of you to download and enjoy. Click here.

Amanzingly, there is another interview to listen, short but always good. This time is from Real Radio 105.4fm. Tim and Rich talk about Somewhere Only We Know. You can listen to it here.

Happy day! :)

(I just feel the need to say that LOL)

RICHARD'S H&F PHOTOBLOG

From KM.com,

London / Monday / 0930

Seeing as the label are re-releasing Hopes and Fears, I thought I would dig out a few old photos from 2003/4/5. I thought you might like to see them. I'll try to put a couple up each day this week, starting with 3 shots from the video shoot for somewhere only we know... (i happened to move that snare drum the other day, and it's still covered in the mud from the shoot).

Paris, obviously!

London / Tuesday / 1015

don't know where this was, but it's definitely Hopes and Fears era... note hi-tech solution of putting laptop on some random bits of foam! looks like the trusty fold-up white table had been retired at this point.

one of us always seems to be on the phone!

Tuesday / 1915

not gonna have time tomorrow, so here are wednesday's pics...

with our lovely TM of the day - Stew, in a tent, somewhere! wierd that we ended up going to Lincoln, Nebraska, home of the Cornhuskers long after Tim had predicted it through the medium of a T-shirt.

MINI ALBUM AND RELATED THOUGHTS FROM MR. RICE-OXLEY

From Echo weekly by Shain Shapiro. To read the full interview click here.

Some interesting quotes from the interview:

This mini–album is not just a stopgap solution in between albums, stressed Rice–Oxley. Instead, it’s a completely new work in its own right, and one in which the band is excited to see unleashed as another addition to their catalogue. “Most of it is recorded and mixed already, as we’ve worked really hard on it while we’ve been traveling, going into studios all over the world and working on the tour bus all night,” adds Rice–Oxley.

“There’ll be a bunch of new songs, all the old favourites, maybe a cover and maybe a few songs played acoustically,” continues Rice–Oxley.

and this is the part that makes me love him more:

"To me, we really have just begun” concludes Rice–Oxley. “You always have to write as the person you really are, and not believe the hype about being a rock star or whatever, as that doesn’t mean anything. When I listen to music I want to hear about things I can relate to, and I want to know that the writer is giving me access to their most personal and honest thoughts and ideas. It's not always easy to do that when you live in the bubble that comes with being in a band, but that's what I hope we will always do.”

BILBAO PICS AND VIDS

Here there are some Tim pics from Bilbao :D If you wanna see more pics of Keane just click here (and you'll see Tom's new sexy shirt *yummy*)

I promise tomorrow I'll put some good vids :D

what I promised... the vids

This Is The Last Time



Is It Any Wonder?



Sovereign Light Café T-T



a bit of Perfect Symmetry (where's Tim? *angry face*)



a bit of Tim dancing YHTMA

RICHARD'S PHOTOBLOG

From KM.com,

a few pics from the studio on monday...