US TV APPEARANCE ON MARCH 12TH

From KM.com,



On Monday, March 12th, Keane will be performing an indoor mini-gig for Jimmy Kimmel Live in Los Angeles - those of you in the U.S. will be able to watch it on ABC that night at 12/11c.

SCREENCAPS!

In the meantime, I'd like to share some screencaps from the trailer by Annette...

PINKPOP SLOT ANNOUNCED

From KM.com,

We can confirm that Keane will be appearing on the 3FM Stage at this year's Pinkpop festival in the Netherlands. The band are playing on Sunday 27th May. For more information on Pinkpop - including details of tickets, which go on sale on Saturday - head over to www.pinkpop.nl (available in Dutch, English and German).

I'll leave a vid for you to refresh your memory. Back in 2009, Keane performed this great song called 'You Haven't Told Me Anything' with a couple of synthesizers mistakes but who cares? lol

KEANE TO PLAY SXSW

From KM.COM,



UPDATE: The band have also now been confirmed to play at Stubb's on Saturday March 17th.
----

We're very pleased to report that Keane are heading to Austin, Texas to play some shows to badge holders at March's SXSW festival.
The first show to be announced is at FILTER’s SXSW Showdown @ Cedar St. 2012 on Thursday, 15th March.

For more information on SXSW, see the website at sxsw.com.

Isa says: Take into account that the show will be broadcasted here. Check the schedule and time!

'This year’s broadcast will take place in the Great Room located on the second floor of the W Austin. We’ll be live 6am to 10am Wednesday thru Friday, and 8am to noon on Saturday'.

Saturday- 3/17
8 Kat Edmonson
8:30 Yellow Ostrich
9 Ben Howard
9:30 Ed Sheeran
10 Givers
10:30 Special Guests TBA
11 Keane
11:30 Special Guests TBA

Isa is back to a new land: STRANGELAND!!

I must apologise to the people who follow this humble blog. My life has not been easy lately but I will try to retain this source as relentless as it used to be because of my throbbing love to Mr. Rice-Oxley. I'll do my best to keep this updated ;)

Let's start...

From KM.com,



We are very pleased to announce that Keane's fourth studio album, Strangeland, will be released on May 7th 2012. The tracklisting is as follows:
1. You Are Young
2. Silenced By The Night
3. Disconnected
4. Watch How You Go
5. Sovereign Light Café
6. On The Road
7. The Starting Line
8. Black Rain
9. Neon River
10. Day Will Come
11. In Your Own Time
12. Sea Fog

As well as the standard CD and digital versions of the album, the album will be available as an Extended CD Version (with four bonus tracks); Vinyl LP; Deluxe CD/DVD Book (including the bonus tracks, five acoustic videos and a book packed with photographs and a short story by British author William Boyd).

- Click here to pre-order Strangeland from the Keane Shop

- Click here to pre-order Strangeland from Amazon.co.uk

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.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

From KM.COM,

Happy new year! As a small thanks for your fantastic support for Keane and keanemusic.com over the past year, we present our third annual km.com calendar for you to download and put on your computer's desktop.

This year's calendar is based on a photo taken when Keane played on the Great Wall Of China during their trip there in April 2011. Click on the thumbnail to get the full-size calendar, then save it to your computer.

ISN'T A PITY (GEORGE HARRISON COVER)

From KM.com,



Hello Everyone,

Greetings from studio land! We're at that very exciting point in the recording process where we're putting down vocals...it's so exciting to be singing such an incredible bunch of songs. There's an uplifting atmosphere about the whole record - songs with a glorious heartfelt beauty about them. Tim's really excelled himself on the songwriting front AGAIN - I've got a feeling that a lot of people are going to fall in love with this album! We can't wait to get it out there. However, in the meantime, here's a cover of a wonderful old George Harrison song called Isn't It A Pity from his album All Things Must Pass. I heard on the radio yesterday that it's 10 years since the great man passed on, so this is our little tribute to him.

Love (and peace!),

Tom

TIM A BIT MIFFED

From KM.com,

2011

From KM.com,