Tim, Tom and Richard share their 2007 favourites

KEANE'S 2007 HIGHLIGHTS
31.12.07 | 09.08.am
Tim, Tom and Richard share their 2007 favourites

TIM
Favourite album of 2007
Kings Of Leon 'Because Of The Times'

Favourite film of 2007
The Bourne Ultimatum

Tim's top flick of the year

Favourite meal of 2007
Breakfast at the Stockyard Café in Amarillo, Texas on a freezing morning in January.

Favourite journey of 2007
Driving from Las Vegas to a ranch in Utah on the Keane tour in May.

Favourite Keane moment of 2007
Playing 'Leaving So Soon?' at The O2 arena in July.

Thing most looking forward to in 2008
Going on tour again.

TOM

Favourite album of 2007
Cherry Ghost 'Thirst For Romance'

Favourite film of 2007
American Gangster

Favourite meal of 2007
Room-service on my balcony at Agra, India, overlooking the Taj Mahal.
That view certainly would make your cornflakes go down well...

Favourite Keane moment of 2007
The Point at dublin

Thing most looking forward to in 2008
Singing some incredible new songs and making Keane's best record yet.

RICHARD

Favourite album of 2007
Findlay Brown 'Separated By The Sea'

Favourite film of 2007
The Bourne Ultimatum

Favourite meal of 2007
Dinner at Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's in London.

Favourite journey of 2007?
The whole South American and Mexican trip

Favourite Keane moment of 2007
Bumping into Chris Rock at Live Earth.

Thing most looking forward to in 2008
Getting stuck into recording some of the great new songs we've got up our sleeves!

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Va - Nme Presents The Essential Bands: 2cd

O 4º album da compilação NME Essential Bands contém os melhores êxitos e bandas em ascenção de 2007. Imaginem quem faz parte deste album?
Exactamente! Os Keane com a sua música The Night Sky

Para adquirirem o Cd cliquem aqui.

Para além dos Keane, bandas como Oasis, Amy Winehouse, The Killers e The Artic Monkeys fazem parte deste album.

A CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM KEANE!

Friday, December 21, 2007

As a special Christmas gift, Keane have decided to give you folks the MP3 of them playing Gwen Stefani's 'Early Winter' at the one-off acoustic show at London's Union Chapel on November 28th 2007. 'Early Winter' is, of course, the song which Tim wrote with Ms Stefani, but which Keane had never performed live before.

To download the track (for free and without needing to enter any details or suchlike) head to keanemusic.com and look behind the 21st window of the Keane advent calendar for the link. The track will be available to download until December 28th.

Happy Christmas!

Basta irem ao site keanemusic.com e abrirem a janelinha do calendário do dia 21, para fazerem o download da música Early Winter cantada pelos Keane ao vivo no concerto na London's Union Chapel.
Que bela prenda de Natal :) :) :) :) :D

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Vamos todos votar para que o vídeo dos Keane,
"Nothing in my way London Live", seja considerado um dos 20 melhores :)
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Keane's Christmas song

O Natal está a chegar, por isso deixo-vos aqui um pequeno presente :)
"A Heart To Hold You", uma música dos Keane de 2004 que não chegou a ser editada, mas foi feita a pensar no Natal.
A Heart To Hold You - "It's a really lovely song and one that is very close to our hearts. When we were asked to do a Christmassy-type song for Radio 1 there were some awful cheesy Christmas songs and we really racked our brains to think of something we'd be alright covering. But, in the end, we thought we'd do something of our own - it has a Christmassy message of warmth and love and I think that's a really important thing." - Tom to Radio 1 - Source
The song was only given a title the week of it first being played on radio (beginning of December 2004), and previously refered to as "The Bing Crosby One", "The Bing Crosby Song" or "The Bing Crosby Number" due to it sounding Christmassy, and Bing Crosby's assocation with Christmas (because of White Christmas)

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Tom Autograph at Union Chapel

Há pessoas com sorte ;)

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Early Winter

Lembram-se da música que o Tim escreveu para a Gwen Stefani?
Pois bem, os Keane tocaram e cantaram essa música, "Early Winter", no passado concerto na "Union Chapel" em Londres. Vejam:

At the Union Chappel

Fotografia tirada hoje dia 28 de Novembro durante os ensaios para o concerto que está a decorrer neste momento na "Union Chapel" em Londres.

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Keane Live Magazine

KEANE Live Magazine (2007 UK magazine originally came with 15th July 2007 issue of The Mail On Sunday, features an exclusive 3-page feature in which frontman & singer Tom Chaplin openly discusses his personal struggle with the drink & drugs dependency that nearly destroyed the band, and how he and the band have overcome their problems to becomes one of the worlds biggest bands, the features comes with exclusive photos of the trio by Dave Willis, including a s) superb cover shot of the band in classic black suit & white shirt.

















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DVD Keane Live

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Keane help War Child raise £115,00

Keane help War Child raise £115,00
Earlier this month Keane put on two huge gigs in Manchester and London to raise funds for War Child's work with children affected by conflict. With the help of Pet Shop Boys, Guillemots, Lily Allen, Brendan Benson, Peter Kay, The Magic Numbers, Milburn, Findlay Brown and Teddy Thompson they helped us raise £115,000. We'll use the money to support our work in Iraq, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
All the money raised at the Brixton gig (a huge £75k) will go towards our Iraq Appeal. In a country where 1 child is dying every 5 minutes and almost 50% don't have access to education the need has never been greater. War Child is the only international charity working with children in south Iraq so this money really is vital. We'd like to extend our thanks to Keane and everyone else who played and of course to everyone who came along.

New War Child website The Night Sky - out now!
We've just relaunched our main site to give you more info on our projects in Iraq, Afghanistan, DRC and Uganda. With blogs from our field staff and guest writers, Twitter feeds, shop and load of ideas on how to support War Child you can't really go wrong. As if raising us £115k wasn't enough Keane have also released a single in aid of War Child. The Night Sky is available to download on warchildmusic.com (or iTunes if you're iPod-inclined) or you can buy a physical copy at most good record shops.

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Mencap's Little Noise Sessions

Página do programa sobre os Keane, do concerto na "Union Chapel" em Islington, Londres onde vão actuar no dia 28 de Novembro, para apoiarem a campanha "Mencap's Little Noise Sessions".


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Tim Blog: DVD

TIM BLOG
20.11.07 | 06.37.pm
Mr Rice-Oxley writes about the DVD release

Greetings. Well, we're tinkering away on new songs and so on. Some really exciting stuff coming out. But looking back for a minute, the release of the 'Keane Live' DVD makes me think about what a bizarre and incredible ride it's been over the last 18 months. Watching some of the gig at the screening on Friday brought back all the nerves, adrenaline and elation that we experienced on July 21st and every night of the 'Under The Iron Sea' tour. That giant show at The O2 was the culmination of a tour where we worked hard to do new things, and we wanted to put on a show that was spectacular and exciting in the way arena shows should be and yet rarely are. I'm really proud of the show and I'm so glad we captured it for posterity.

We're also very proud of the concert film itself. Dick Carruthers and his gang did an exceptional job. Everyone who was at that gig will remember that the atmosphere was electric throughout, and the most important thing was to make sure that comes across through your TV screens. The colours, the relentless roar of the crowd, the barrage of light, sixty-foot-high marching soldiers and blood-red fish-bombs, the heat and the sweat.... it's all there, and even though we've played those songs so many times, it's thrilling to be able to stand back and watch that night unfold once more.

Tim
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Tom: Fans' Interview

TOM: FANS' INTERVIEW PT114.11.07 | 11.18.am
Exclusive interview between Tom and two Keane fans

Following the interviews with Richard and Tim, here is the first part of our exclusive interview with Tom, which was conducted by two Keane fans (and message board regulars) Chris and Andrew. The other two parts will be posted tomorrow and Friday.

ANDREW: Was it a relief to you that your troubles came out last year?

TOM: No. It wasn't at all. Personally, I think the best thing is that it feels it's something that's now in the past. Although it's not a chapter of my life that will ever be closed, I think it feels like a part of my life that is over, or at least a troubled time that almost definitely will not ever be seen again. I feel good about that - I feel good that as a band we've survived those troubles and personally, more importantly, that I have. There was certainly more strain there before it all came to blows than there is now, from my perspective. I think we've got a much healthier relationship as a band. It wasn't just entirely down to me and my bad behaviour. In a group of people, things start to fall apart and are driven underground and become secret – I was holding back my feelings, as were the others. I think it was about all three of us, but certainly my problem was the worst part of it. We have a much healthier existence as a band now and we're more accepting of each other, which is good - less judgmental, more realistic. I think we accept that we could have easily lost the band. Ever since September and October last year, since we were back out on the road, things have got better and better in pretty much every aspect of the band. It's good to be in that position.

ANDREW: One of the things that Richard said to us was that when you came back through Gatwick after the Spain and Portugal gigs was that you collected your luggage and all these people got their cameras out and started taking photos of you. How hard is it for you to live with it?

TOM: I absolutely hate it! It's really, really irritating. The invention of the cameraphone has been just a complete disaster for people in bands and I don't think there'd be anyone who'd deny that. The large majority of people will ask you, 'Oh, can we take a photo', but even then you feel obliged to say yes.

ANDREW: Have you ever thought about whipping your Blackberry out and taking photos of them?

TOM: It doesn't have a camera on it. I would never have a phone with a fucking camera on it, I'd feel like a hypocrite! When I was a kid, I used to find being in a famous band and being recognised pretty exciting - I think most kids probably would. But, actually, the novelty of that wears off pretty fast! And you realise that really the thing that you're in it for is the singing, the visceral experience of being out on stage, making a record – those are the really exciting things where you realise the achievement, or feel like you're making a difference. After five minutes of having any of kind of celebrity I find it faintly embarrassing and difficult, and I kind of wish it wasn't there. But I also understand that it's the flipside to all those lovely things that you get to do, and we are very privileged really.

CHRIS: Do you miss the obscurity of the early days, then?

TOM: Well, I think that in the early days you'd think 'Well, being famous will effectively mean we're successful and we won't be in the cycle of failure anymore!', so I suppose it didn't seem like a bad thing then. I really have a lot of empathy for people like Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse - they're the talk of the town at the moment - because obviously they have their own demons, and possibly that's partly what makes them great artists. They have this very dark side and they can draw from that, find inspiration from it, but it also means that when they do go down that bad self-destructive road, they can end up being hounded and basically chased out of town. I do feel for them – I can't imagine what it's like. For a start, those two live in London and they seem to have a pack of paps and journalists following them wherever they go and it must be quite difficult for them to deal with those issues in such a public way. I certainly found it difficult, even though the press were generally pretty kind to me. All I hope is that they find some kind of solution to whatever their issues are and get back to making good music.

ANDREW: OK, lets talk about your solo album that never was.

TOM: Right…!

ANDREW: Apparently your solo album was coming out in 2007 produced by Tim Rice-Oxley, and with Richard Hughes probably drumming. Tell us all about it!

TOM: Well, I could tell you that that is probably 99% unlikely to happen. I hadn't actually been writing songs for quite a long time and it was something I loved doing, ever since I was about 12 or something - ever since Tim taught me how to play chords on the piano and all that kind of jazz. It probably occupied a large proportion of my day as a teenager, and when we moved to London, I used to love writing – I just did it as much as I could. But when we moved to France for that six months we were there working on stuff, suddenly we went from doing 50% of the songs each to Tim having 'This Is The Last Time', 'Everybody's Changing', 'She Has No Time', 'Bend And Break'… loads and loads of great songs just suddenly flowed out of him! It probably fuelled two things inside me – it made me fearful that I couldn't really do it, and it also made me lazy because I just thought, 'Well, I don't need to because we've got all these great songs'. I think our roles became quite defined at that point.

So anyway, one of the things that I thought last year as I emerged from the haze was 'Why are the roles so defined in this band?'. I realised I had no outlet for all the things that I felt, aside from really being out on stage. I just felt like I needed that again. So I started writing again, and I suddenly found I was really enjoying it. I was coming out with stuff that just made feel good, because I was then able to vent some anger or love or anything. All these things were spontaneously coming out, and it felt like a really good process. I started to think, 'Well, if the band splits up, or if things get difficult, or we take a break for a while, I could work on these songs'. I guess somehow that leaked out as me doing a solo album.

I certainly have a desire for those songs to be heard and a desire to work on them but, at the moment, we've been working on stuff and rehearsing it down in our barn. That's been equally exciting for me just because it's given me the same kind of outlet. Maybe in a slightly different way – there may even be some of my songs on the next album, I don't really know. Whatever happens, I know that I will have had an input that I may have had for 'Hopes and Fears', but certainly didn't have for the second album. And that's kind of good enough for me at the moment. So I don't think you're going to see a solo album yet!

CHRIS: It's more a case of you wanting to write than you wanting to do something separate to Keane?

TOM: Exactly. It's one of those things where if you've got the ability to do it, then you should do it. If you don't, you're missing out on a great way of expressing yourself, and I think that's a realisation I had last year.

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Keane IPod

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Keane - Brixton War Child show

Lovely :)

Trailer do DVD

Book War Child sold at concerts

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Já está à venda no site oficial dos Keane, tanto o livro como as t-shirts.

Keane Brixton Academy

Concerto Londres

Hoje, dia 1 de Novembro, das 21h às 23h oiçam o concerto ao vivo dos Keane em Londres.
Neste site : http://www.islandfm.com/

Ensaios

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Tim's Blog - about Manchester

TIM'S WAR CHILD BLOG
01.11.07 | 03.30.am
Tim writes after the Manchester gig

A very fun and chaotic first night of the War Child extravaganza. Don't know why I keep calling it that...I just like the word 'extravaganza' to be honest. Findlay and Milburn were both superb. We were having a great time on stage, but sadly we only got about three-quarters of the way through our set before Tom finally reached collapsing point and we had to call it quits. He
really is not well at all. He's totally gutted about not being able to get through the whole show, but in truth I'm amazed he managed to go onstage at all. Thanks to you guys for singing your hearts out and keeping the songs going even when Tom was fading!

Needless to say, we're really, really sorry we had to stop early, and would like to say a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of you who came along to support us and War Child tonight.

Still, our disappointment was somewhat offset by having the opportunity to watch Peter Kay entertaining the audience from the side of the stage just before we went on. His introduction started off as the briefest of preambles, but in typical Kay style soon developed into a 15-minute train of thought on everything from Duran Duran to Heather Mills. By the time he'd hit upon the idea of getting the crowd to do a karaoke singalong of Somewhere Only We Know using only animal noises - one of the more surreal
moments in our band's history - we were all in stitches and wondering if he was settling in for the duration.

On to London now. An even more busy and exciting day lies ahead.

Tim
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WAR CHILD GIGS MERCH

Tudo isto vai estar à venda nos próximos concertos dos Keane que vão reverter para a campanha "War Child". O próximo concerto será no dia 1 de Novembro em Londres.

Fonte: www.keanemusic.com

Manchester Apollo 31.10.2007

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Listen to Tom interview

Numa entrevista, Tom Chaplin não só falou sobre o single "The Night Sky" e a contribuição deste para a "War Child" como também revelou algumas informações sobre os próximos concertos dos Keane que irão reverter também para esta campanha.
Para ouvirem esta entrevista cliquem aqui.

Keane Porto Live on Tv

Put It Behind You - TvTel

Thanks to: Ana Catarina

Tom Chaplin on the Virgin Radio

Hoje, dia 25 de Outubro, entre as 20h e as 22h podemos ouvir uma entrevista que vai ser feita ao Tom Chaplin sobre o novo single dos Keane: The Night Sky.

Por isso a esta hora vamos todos ao site: http://www.virginradio.co.uk/ para ouvi-lo ao vivo no programa "Most Wanted" com Ben Jones.

Keane interview for "The Sun"

Keane plot big Warchild gig
In Iraq one child dies every five minutes.
Six hundred and fifty five thousand children have lost their lives as a result of the conflict in the country.
And 8.2 million Iraqis are dependent on food rations.
It’s these shocking statistics that prompted Keane to pledge all they could to help charity Warchild.
“We’re not the kind of people who turn up to the opening of an envelope,” says frontman TOM CHAPLIN. “We feel if we’re going to get involved in anything we need to feel passionate about it. We have no fear in sticking our necks out and telling our fans about just what is going on in Iraq.”
The piano-bashing trio of TIM RICE-OXLEY, Tom and RICHARD HUGHES are the proud ambassadors of Warchild’s Iraq appeal.
All proceeds from a pair of shows, Manchester Apollo on October 31 and Brixton Academy on November 1, will go to the charity.
Profits from new single The Night Sky will be handed over too.
And it’s the charity’s dedication that particularly attracted Chaplin.
He says: “What we feel is so great about Warchild is that while everybody else, especially in the south of Iraq, seem to be quitting, Warchild is the one international child support agency that is remaining there and is offering what is basically the only solution left.
"Without Warchild, that’s it. There won’t be any support for many many children, so that’s why we feel it’s an absolute must that this campaign works out.”

‘ I'd actually lost the ability to write ’Tom Chaplin

The threesome have set themselves an audacious fund-raising target, as Richard explains: “The aim is to raise £1.5 million to fund a three year campaign in Iraq, which will help a quarter of a million people.
“Hopefully, between the two shows we should get £100,000 through ticket sales alone. And the same goes for the single.”
The gigs themselves are set to be starry affairs. While the Manchester date will see the multi-platinum chart champs headline on their own, the London show will see a raft of talents take to the stage.
Pet Shop Boys, The Magic Numbers, The Guillemots, Teddy Thompson and more will all be performing on the night.
And Tom secured their agreement through a novel and surprisingly complicated means.
“We actually sent hand-written letters out to people,” he revealed. “That was a bit of a challenge because I discovered I’d actually lost the ability to write by hand.
“Obviously some people said no, mainly because they were on tour, but in the main people said yes. We were very flattered with the response.
“I think Warchild has had an incredible effect on music. But I also think, especially at this point in time, given the mess and controversy that surrounds Britain’s involvement in Iraq, that a lot of people feel strongly that it would be nice to do something positive.
“It’s definitely gathered momentum very quickly.”

Warchild managing director MARK WADDINGTON adds: “What we’re using this show for is to gain as wide an audience as we can for the Iraq appeal. People can donate money by texting child to 88818 and people can also pledge their support on the website www.warchildiraqappeal.com.”
Pet Shop Boys NEIL TENNANT and CHRIS LOWE have a special significance for the trio.
“Without them there would be no Keane,” states Richard. “They’re the band that made (songwriter) Tim first listen to music. All of the people on the bill we admire hugely.”
“I don’t feel like it’s a headline gig,” adds Tom. “I like to think of it as Keane presents. We just want to bring all these people together. It’s wonderful how all these musicians are converging in a selfless way to do something.
“We feel we’re part of a bigger picture when it comes to this show. In some ways I’m quite terrified about having to introduce all these people and I hope that we do our best and don’t make an embarrassment of ourselves.”
The single itself, The Night Sky, marks a radical departure in terms of Keane’s songwriting. It’s written from the perspective of a small child affected by conflict.

‘ I'm quite terrified and hope we don't make an embarassment of ourselves ’Tom Chaplin

Tom explains: “Obviously we, with western news programmes often see the reporter in front of a building with a bit of smoke in the distance and you don’t get a feel for what it must be like.
“The people who feel that sense of despair and fear the most must be the children who are in those war zones.
“That was something that really interest us and provided the germ for that song.”
The frontman sees himself following in the footsteps of global campaigners like BONO and BOB
Single artwork ... Under The Night Sky
GELDOF.
He adds: “A lot of bands have been scared off by some negative reactions there’ve been.
“Two of the biggest campaigners around are Bono and Bob Geldof and they consistently seem to come in for a lot of stick.
“As far as I’m concerned they’re doing unbelievably brilliant work and trying hard to battle against governments who basically lie and cheat and don’t fulfil their promises.
“Whether it’s tunnel vision I just see the goal, which is raising money for Warchild and having a huge influence on many lives.”
24th October 2007

Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/

Tom Chaplin & Matt Dawson

Matt Dawson and lead singer of Keane Tom Chaplin pose at the O2 England World Cup party at L'Etoile on October 20, 2007 in Paris, France.

Vídeo "The Night Sky"

Concerto Porto por Paulo Ferreira

SABE QUAL É A TELEVISAO QUE LHE MOSTRA OS KEANE AO VIVO? SÓ PODIA SER A INVICTA TV. VEJA AQUI

É o que podemos ler assim que entramos no site http://www.invictatv.com/ e logo de seguida visionar o concerto dos Keane ao vivo, quando actuaram no Porto no dia 3 de Agosto.

O concerto dos Keane foi filmado por Paulo Ferreira.
Para saberem mais sobre o autor do vídeo e verem algumas fotos do concerto vão ao site:http://www.pauloferreira.tv/