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:
sexta-feira, 30 de novembro de 2007
quarta-feira, 28 de novembro de 2007
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.
Foto: www.keanemusic.com
terça-feira, 27 de novembro de 2007
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.
Source: http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=409329
Source: http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=409329
segunda-feira, 26 de novembro de 2007
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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sábado, 24 de novembro de 2007
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".
Scanned by Anna1976
Scanned by Anna1976
quarta-feira, 21 de novembro de 2007
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
Source:www.keanemusic.com
quinta-feira, 15 de novembro de 2007
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.
Text by: www.keanemusic.com
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.
Text by: www.keanemusic.com
terça-feira, 13 de novembro de 2007
sábado, 10 de novembro de 2007
quarta-feira, 7 de novembro de 2007
sábado, 3 de novembro de 2007
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.
sexta-feira, 2 de novembro de 2007
quinta-feira, 1 de novembro de 2007
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/
Neste site : http://www.islandfm.com/
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
Source: www.keanemusic.com
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
Source: www.keanemusic.com
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.
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