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TIM AND FRAN HEALY TOGETHER!

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A fan-filmed video, showing Travis frontman Fran Healy performing Everybody's Changing at his fundraising show in Berlin on Monday, at which Tim was a special guest.

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TIM PIC!

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T + J DRUMS

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Hello!

After spending most of this year writing, rehearsing, chopping and changing, we are finally recording our new album. In fact, thanks to all the time spent on pre-production we're getting through recording very quickly (so far...) and things are sounding very exciting indeed.

We started with a week in Sussex with a new producer, plus our faithful assistant engineer Tom 'The Chief' Hough, prepping a few last details and working through a couple of very new songs. To double up our work-rate, the other Tom (the one who does the singing) and I set up in a shed and tinkered with vocal ideas. And in the evenings there was occasionally time for a walk to the pub for some local ales and a game of Toad In The Hole as the last of the light summer evenings gave way to autumn.

To begin recording properly, we decamped to London for an intense two weeks that featured a LOT of drumming, a fair bit of piano-mangling, a sprinkling of bass and singing and a huge number of salt beef sandwiches. We're now moving back down to Sussex with 16 songs well underway, and we can't wait to piece the rest of it together. Things are sounding really, really great.

Anyway, while we're getting on with that we're going to try and keep you updated with news, photos and videos from the studio and elsewhere. It's going to be a very exciting few weeks for us, and we hope to share some of that with you.

Lots of love,

Tim, Tom, Richard and Jesse

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TIM: 5 SONGS I LIKE

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Hello! Here are five things I'm enjoying at the moment.
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1 The War On Drugs - Baby Missiles

Utterly brilliant song with a fantastic sound. My next ten demos are probably just going to be inferior copies of this…



2 Lana Del Rey - Video Games

Again, lovely song, lovely sound. Very dark and intense.



3 ABBA - The Name Of The Game

Let's be honest, we take these songs for granted. We've heard them too many times. Just listen to this with your headphones on. There is no dead wood - every single moment is filled with a catchy melody or sound. Like virtually all their songs, it's a masterclass in pop songwriting.



Speaking of ABBA reminds me of this classic Erasure pastiche from their Abba-esque era:



4 Fleetwood Mac live

Check out this performance of Go Your Own Way. Just amazing.



5 JBM

Jesse B Marchant supported Mt. Desolation on a few dates in the USA last year. I got a sneak preview of a new recording of his last week, and it truly blew me away. Sadly, of course, I can't post that song here because the new record's not out yet….but in the meantime keep listening to his first record, Not Even In July.

http://www.jbm-music.com/

TIM: 'WE'VE BEEN VERY BUSY IN THE STUDIO...'

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Hello everyone. Apologies for the recent radio silence from Keane HQ. We've been very busy in the studio trying to bash a huge pile of new songs into shape. We started with a list of about 40 songs I think, and our job for the last few months has been to narrow that down to a shortlist of about 15.

It has taken us a while to find an atmosphere and an approach which feels right for the songs and which ties the whole thing together into one cohesive story, but things are finally starting to feel right. Songs that have eluded us through many different attempts are clicking into place at last. And it seems like we're all agreeing on a 'sound' for the album after a lot of experimenting with different approaches. There's still masses of work to do, but it's all really exciting and I feel like you guys are going to love it. I hope so anyway!

We were in the very posh Air studios in Hampstead last week. Rocksteady rhythm magicians Richard and Jesse did most of the work, but Tom did some singing too, and I muddled through a couple of piano parts in between trying to work out the chords for Bohemian Rhapsody (that way lies madness). Below are a few photos donated by Messrs Hughes and Quin.

We'll keep you posted…!

Lots of love,

Tim