We'll to a special post about KEANE IN OPORTO!

(The official promotion of Keane in Oporto)

The tickets are on sale in www.ticketline.pt (click in Concerto and you have to search almost in the end of the page KEANE) and in any FNAC go to www.fnac.pt or more directly http://www.fnac.pt/pt/Catalog/Detail.aspx?cIndex=10&catalog=bilheteira&categoryN=Espect%C3%A1culos&category=concertos&product=2306954025006 and the prices until 27th July is 25 € and 28th July until the day of the concert is around 30€

This is Paty's ticket! Ana will try to bought it and we know she will do it!

Some news about Keane here

(This appeared in the 'QUEIMA DAS FITAS' in Oporto. We're not sure)

Or the official new:

http://www.cm-porto.pt/gen.pl?p=stories&op=view&fokey=cmp.stories/6356

We'll give you all the informations! For now it's all!

Have a nice weekend!

Listen KEANE!

(information: official portuguese forum)

WIN KNOWSLEY HALL FESTIVAL TICKETS!

We have two pairs to give away!

On Sunday 24th June, Keane are headlining the second day of the first ever Knowsley Hall Music Festival in the grounds of Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool. You can get all the line-up and ticket info by visiting knowsleyhallmusicfestival.co.uk.

We've managed to get hold of two pairs of weekend tickets to give away to the Keane online massive. If you'd like to win, simply answer the following question:

Q. Keane are from a town called Battle. But what county (not country) is that town called Battle in?

Email your answer, your name and a contact number to competitions@keanemusic.com before 12noon (UK time) on Thursday May 17th. Two winners will each win a pair of standard weekend tickets to the festival. One entry per person (and we're really quite strict about that). May the competition force be with you!

TOMORROW'S LA SHOW MOVED

Fire prompts venue change for Greek Theatre gig

Due to the fire in Griffith Park, The Greek Theatre remains a command center for the Los Angeles Fire Department; therefore, the Keane concert scheduled at the venue on Friday, May 11 has been moved to the Gibson Amphitheatre at 8:30pm. All Greek Theatre tickets must be exchanged at the Gibson Amphitheatre box office upon entry, please allow ample time for this process.

The Gibson Amphitheatre box office will open at 5pm on Friday, May 11 to accommodate all exchanges. For further information call The Greek Theatre at (323) 665-5857 or Gibson Amphitheatre box office at (818) 622-4440 or visit the venue's websites at www.greektheatrela.com or www.hob.com/venues/concerts/gibson/index.asp.

The Gibson Amphitheatre (formerly Universal Amphitheatre) is located at 100 Universal City Plaza in Universal City approximately 7 miles from The Greek Theatre.

LISTEN ONLINE TO RADIO APPEARANCE TODAY

UPDATE: Keane on Star Lounge at 6pm LA time

Keane will be appearing on Star Lounge (KYSR) in LA at 6pm this evening (LA time) - not 10.30am as initially posted. You'll be able to listen online here.

USA BLOG #1
The first chapter of the American blog

Yes, Keane are back on tour again, which means it's time for more blog action (and before any Canadians email - it'll be called Canada Blog when they're there!). This first entry, from the inimitable Mr Ian Faith, comes direct from the band's rehearsal studio in LA...

Hello everyone. It was very hot today in Los Angeles. The band rehearsed their cover of the Genesis song 'That's All', which they will play at the VH1 Rock Honours show in Las Vegas on Saturday. For some reason, thinking about Genesis inspired this collection of pictures of pairs of things from the rehearsal studio. Bright, '80s pop colours I suppose. Hopefully there will be some interesting pairs of things in Vegas as well.
Ian









Sorry for we can post so we put the original posts of KM.COM and in other day we publish here the tickets of Keane in Oporto and more details of it!

Have a nice week!

Don't forget to listen very much Keane!!

The news are:

Photos from Mexico

Fans' shots from the three Mexican gigs

Hello again. Here are the last of the pictures from the Latin American tour which you guys emailed in to us. Thanks very much to everyone who sent in their pics, reports and greetings during the tour, we enjoyed reading them back here at Keane HQ. We're told that it's a lot harder to get a camera into a gig over there, so many of the pics were taken on mobile phones, which makes them even more impressive.

In other news, thanks to all of you who responded to Rob's blogs by a) offering suggestions on how to clean lino and b) offering to go on a date with ASBO. It would take the lad several years to travel across the world visiting all of his potential beaus (at least two of whom admitted to being married...)

Anyway, onto the pictures from Mexico. We're not exactly sure where this first one was taken, but it shows Tom with a Mexican national football shirt (if only he'd held it a little more to his left it would've looked like he was embracing a man with no head).


Picture by Charlie


24.04.07 Monterrey, Mexico


Picture by Coca


Picture by Ivan


Picture by Magdalena


Picture by Simona


Picture by Yesenia


26.04.07 Guadalajara, Mexico


Picture by Clara


Picture by Maggie


Picture by Meygan. Very arty!


27.04.07 Mexico City. Mexico


Picture by Alejandra


Picture by Rebecca

*El Blog 15*

Beth sends her final blog of the tour

Hi again,

Just a quick note now we are home from our South American travels. What a great trip it's been for everyone.

I'd just like to say on behalf of all of us, a big thank you to all the fans we met along the way. The band were overwhelmed by your kindness and all the gifts they received.

We truly hope to be able to visit those amazing places again in the future, but in the meantime we start emptying and repacking our bags for our American tour.

Take care y'all.

Beth.

Ps. Look out for a final blog from Rob, with more photos. He's clearly a much better photographer than I am so I'll leave the picture duties to him in the future! Cheerio......

*El Blog 16*

Keane's tech chap Rob writes the final chapter of El Blog

Hello again from the lovely warm jet lag fug of springtime London. It's good to be home.

We were all suffering a bit from tiredness and a spot of the dreaded Montezuma's revenge (note to venue caterers in Guadalajara; try covering the food up - just a little) which made for a bit of a long day at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City. (That's my way of apologising for the pictures not being quite up to scratch, by the way.)

It may sound a bit of a cliché but the fantastic 10,000 sell out crowd made it all worthwhile. It was quite a reception and the band were visibly stunned.


That crowd in full between songs. Note the toy cat that belonged to Al Artingstall (our extremely dapper old monitor sound engineer and top singer-songwriter) in his new home on my console.


Piano's eye view of the sea of phones, lighters, torches and who knows what being waved during 'Hamburg Song'.

For once the British Airways schedule did us a favour. We couldn't fly out until two days after the show which gave us plenty of time to explore Mexico City (far better than the last time we were there and had to get on a plane at 6am the next day).

On Sunday the whole band and those crew members who could tear themselves away from their hotel bathrooms (an outbreak of the dreaded man flu had added to our medical troubles) went on a trip to the Pyramids at Teotihuacán - organised by the band's super efficient PA Beth (swot up here - on the pyramids, not Beth).

Being a roadie can be a pretty difficult life, long hours, filthy showers, smelly busses (imagine all the smells ever, condensed into a bus-shaped space), being away from home for months at a time and dealing with rock star egos... but the perks, when they come, can be pretty fantastic and the day at the pyramids was one of the best.

The day was made special by our guide "Gorilla" whose ancestral knowledge and well-honed gags really made the place come alive.

A particular highlight was being taken under one of the pyramids for a fire ceremony (following in the footsteps of the mighty Bon Jovi, or so we were told - any spiritual hokum that's ok with the 'Jovi is a-ok with us as well). Beth was given a red headband and had to receive the fire on behalf of 'all her brothers' (which means us, I think - poor her) and rewarded with a traditional native name (which I can't remember - but it's something like saltbeefsweetpetal).

We finished off by climbing the massive Pyramid of the Sun (246ft high, 3rd highest in the world, fact fans). Well some of us did; Tom decided against it as it was (a) extremely steep and (b) he was wearing flip flops. Tim went for crisps before attempting the climb, which was extremely sensible.

I'll make the Oscars bit as short as I can. We had a great time in Latin America and hopefully managed to bring our usual high production values to all the shows; the memories of the people we met and the places we saw will stay for a long time. I'd like to extend massive thanks to my team: crew chief Soline, lighting and balloon tech Tim and of course long suffering video genius ASBO as well as all the local suppliers (especially the ones who realised that when we spec a lighting rig we expect it to work).

Rob



Tom, Tony, Tim and Beth await the fire.


Tim's very glad he's not been given a headband.


Gorilla and Beth await the battle of the Springsteen tribute bands.


Crowds climbing the pyramid. Have some 'Where's Waldo' fun and see if you can spot Tim.


Richard at the top of the Pyramid of the Sun.

We're in the 100th POST!!

So we thanks to everyone who take part of this project and in the next post we'll put here our opinions!! And also fans opinions!!

I hope you continue like our blog and We promise in the next week we'll have a new template!!

Hello everyone! Unfortunately we have one good and one bad new!

We'll start with the bad news..

How the keanemusic.com said the Freedom Rocks Festival have been cancelled

Festival show in Hull is called off

We have just received this official statement from the organisers of the Freedom Rock gig in Hull, which Keane were to play at on June 9th.
It is with great regret that Freewill Events has been forced to cancel the Freedom Rocks Festival due to delays, centering on funding, which have affected the cash flow and marketing of the event.

Ticket holders will receive a full refund from point of purchase.

Freewill Events would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported the event and encourage people to continue to support the campaign to end modern day slavery.

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The good new is this is the 99th Post! And we decided to do some special things for comemorate our 100 th post!!
If you want to give your opinion about this blog and say what you want about it send us an email for keanefas@hotmail.com and we'll publish here your opinions and we'll give our opinion about this 6 months and some days with you,with Keane and with the blog!!

The biggest surprise is the new template that we've done specially for comemorate our 100 post and we promise we'll only change again when Keane come here with other special version! We hope you like!! Sorry if we don't give many attention for you but the school is terrible and we have many things to study and many project works to do! But in holidays we'll come better then ever!

And we've to select someone to write here in the blog in the next year of school because in that time we'll have the national exams and they are the most important exams in our lifes because they help to decide if we are in 10 term or not! But we talk about this later!!

Have a nice time and please send to us your opinion! Is simple and excellent for us! Write what you thing and send us an email for keanefas@hotmail.com

Keane play in London's Arena

One-off show on 21st July in London

We're pleased to announce that Keane will be playing a special one-off London show at the O2 Arena on 21st July 2007. The show will be filmed for a future DVD release.

Tickets will go on general sale on Thursday 3rd May at 9am with a fans' pre-sale from 9am on Tuesday 1st May through the Shop at this very website.

Tickets information:
Tickets are £25
Box Office: 0871 984 0002
24hr cc hotline: 0871 2200 260 / 0871 230 6230 or buy online: www.gigsandtours.com and www.ticketmaster.co.uk

For more information on the O2 Arena - a new venue inside what was the Millennium Dome - click here to go to the venue's website.