RICHARD'S NORTH AMERICA PHOTOBLOG

From KM.com,

Myriade Cafe, Montreal / Saturday / 1400

I've escaped a dusty but sunny and hot festival site to grab a coffee in Montreal - I'm in a lovely cafe, recommended by Momiji Kishi, no less: http://www.cafemyriade.com/ so i'm gonna upload a couple of photos from last night in Toronto. It was a really fun show - great crowd, really loud singing, fun atmosphere, not to mention the sweet smell lingering in the air... i took a couple of photos after the show - it's such a beautiful city, and being on the shore of Lake Ontario sets it off perfectly.

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RICHARD'S NORTH AMERICA PHOTOBLOG

From KM.com,

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MT. DESOLATION ON Q MAGAZINE

*UPDATED* BIGGER VERSION

Till the moment I just found this scan. I'll try to find another one clearer and update it as soon as possible.

KEANE FREE TRACKS FROM UK FOREST TOUR

Enter your details to download four free live Keane tracks recorded on their 2010 UK Forest Tour. Click here.

The four songs are:

Is It Any Wonder?
My Shadow
Somewhere Only We Know
Stop For a Minute

Thanks KeaneShadow :)

KEANE ON JIMMY KIMMEL

This week, Keane took a little break from the N.American tour to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live. They only performed the following...

My Shadow



Stop For A Minute

RICHARD'S NORTH AMERICA PHOTOBLOG

From KM.com,

House of Blues / Las Vegas / 1057

we've had a great first few days of the tour. i'm gonna post the photos from the stage in Oakland and LA (and they'll soon become clickable, hopefully), and various other bits from the last few days. I woke up at 5AM, just as we parked up in Las Vegas, so i went out for a wander with my camera - it was already ridiculously hot (i guess we are in a desert), but the light was amazing as the sun came up. forecast is 42 degrees C / 107 F today.

Spot Tim waving!

MT. DESOLATION ANNOUNCE ALBUM COVER AND DEBUT TOUR

From Q the music's website,

Mt. Desolation the side project of Keane members Tim Rice-Oxley and Jess Quin have announced details of their debut UK and Ireland tour.

They will head out across the UK and Ireland in September for 17 dates, kicking off in Belfast on the 9th, concluding at The Ballroom in Brighton on September 28th, with the dates preceding the release of their self titled first album, on October 18, through Island Records. Artwork for the album has also just been revealed (pictured).


Tickets for the tour are on sale from Friday for £10 or €12 via Aloud.com or at Musicglue.

Mt. Desolation debut tour

9th September - Belfast, Spring & Airbrake
10th September - Dublin, Whelans
12th September - Nottingham, Bodega
13th September - Birmingham, Glee Club
14th September - Newcastle, Academy 2
15th September - Glasgow, King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
16th September - Inverness, Hootanannys
17th September - Stornoway, Woodlands Centre
18th September - Ullapool, Loopallu Festival (£70 festival tickets)
19th September - Fort William, Watercolour Studio
21th September - Isle Of Mull, An Tobar
22th September - Dundee, Fat Sams
23th September - Aberdeen, The Tunnels
24th September - Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
25th September - Manchester, Deaf Institute
27th September - London, The Scala
28th September - Brighton, Ballroom

Mt. Desolation's website.

The band's first teaser track State Of Our Affairs can be downloaded for free here.

ROCKFEEDBACK´S FRIDGE FILM

From KM.com,

The music website rockfeedback.com went along to Keane's Night Train launch show at Brixton Fridge on May 12, where they filmed the performance and an interview with the band.

Click here to watch their excellent 18-minute film.

PURE POP FOR NOW PEOPLE INTERVIEW

From Pure Pop For Now People's website,

Click here to read the whole interview :)

Some of the article...

Tell me about some of your influences, especially as the piano player.

TRO: Piano was the instrument I started out on as a child, but one of the things that made our band quite unique is that most of my influences were guitarists or electronic music like Depeche Mode or Kraftwerk, or a lot of that 1980s stuff … people like The Pet Shop Boys, and U2 and REM and Radiohead and Bowie – classic bands – people who are known for being more generally about guitars. I guess I took that sense of that kind of expansive, melodic guitar parts and used it. Rather than being about twiddly solos, it’s much more about creating sonic landscapes for the vocals and lyrics to fit into – a kind of impressionistic approach to sound. I think taking that inspiration and applying it to a piano is probably what made Keane’s sound unique. It’s a pretty bastardized approach to playing piano that would probably be disapproved of by anyone who’s been classically trained. I think it made for quite interesting results.

RICHARD'S SUPER BOCK SUPER ROCK PHOTOBLOG

From KM.com,

The very lovely Mr Neil Tennant came to say hi after the show, and I took the opportunity to take a photo for your viewing pleasure. I think it's fair to say that without the Pet Shop Boys, Keane would be a very different band, if it existed at all. here we go... i'm off to dig out my suitcase.

Rest of the pics on Keane's website.