Q. Have you enjoyed making this album?
A. Audio

I have enjoyed it hugely, actually! It was interesting, we had Jon Brion, who's an American producer/genius musician sort-of guru kinda bloke, and he came to Paris when we first started on the main part of recording.. and he said "Go and listen to those Bowie records and Beatles records that you love and just listen to the sense of fun that the people who made those records are having!" - and I think we thought "Well y'know... We've gotta make sure that translates onto this record". And it really has I think... there's a lot of fun stuff - I mean, y'know its not a joke record, its not a kind of parody or anything of Keane... its a very serious and thoughtful record, I guess, but at the same time the sound of it, sonically, its a lot more fun and I think the reason is because we were having a lot more fun. We wanted to get involved in all kinds of crazy percussion and backing vocals and y'know, using instruments that we wouldn't have dreamed of using before... and I think y'know, part of that was just that we'd had a break, we feel so much closer as a unit now, we had such a good time touring in 2007 that it just... it just made us feel sort-of alive again as a band and so, y'know I just think... well, its ironic because I think we wanted to, with the second record we said that we wanted it to be a record that made us feel alive again after sort-of finding touring getting a bit kind of... well, touring became a bit of a drag, it became something that went on too long and that we weren't enjoying. But in the end, Under The Iron Sea just became a very dark and upsetting record - I mean, I personally think a very good record, but not a particularly pleasant experience to make. Y'know, I guess that happens in the life of a band, there are times and there are records that get made where those things happen - but this whole process has been completely different. We've been away to Berlin a couple of times, we've been away to Paris together, we've been up at our barn together and its that togetherness and that feeling that we're all kinda pulling in the same direction - and we're excited about making music again and doing it in a fun way. Its really infected this record with that sense of fun, and for me its been by far and away the most enjoyable record-making process I've had with Keane, and I think that probably could be said for the others as well.

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What Tom says:
Sometimes there might have been up to a hundred vocal takes that we did, but actually y'know, the final few we'd have picked one where we've gone "That whole vocal is pretty much bang on, its pretty much perfect". Its nice to have that because you get a sort of sense of continuity through the song... y'know, if you listen to a very poppy band, you know that the lyrics were composite takes that had come from 20 or 30 efforts at it and they may not have that sense of soul and continuity to them. But we really wanted to make sure that we got that with this album and so it did sort of end up that I suddenly hit a sort of "rich seam" of vocals and that was towards the end of the recording process. SO, most of them have got a feeling of "one take wonder" - I was pretty pleased with the way I was singing the songs by the end.

http://www.keanemusic.com/data/mp3/2727_t6.mp3

CURATE A NIGHT FOR WAR CHILD


This will be the name of the Keane's DVD about their live gig's for War Child.

This DVD will show more artists than Keane, for example, Lily Allen, The Magic Numbers, Pet Shop Boys, and Guillemots.

More details about the dvd check this

Tracklisting/ Additional Info:
1. (From Now On All My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers – Teddy Thompson
2. You Finally Said Something (When You Said Goodbye) – Teddy Thompson
3. Nobody Cared – Findlay Brown
4. Don’t You Know I Love You – Findlay Brown
5. Cold Hands (Warm Heart) – Brendon Benson & Keane
6. Tiny Spark – Brendan Benson & Keane
7. Love Me Like You – Magic Numbers
8. Integral – Pet Shop Boys
9. Being Boring – Pet Shop Boys
10. Smile – Lily Allen & Keane
11. Everybody's Changing – Lily Allen & Keane
12. Crystal Ball – Keane
13. Somewhere Only We Know – Keane
14. Under Pressure – Keane
15. Bedshaped - Keane

Bonus Material:
16. Guillemots - Trains To Brazil
17. Backstage: Interviews & behind the scenes footage with the performing artists.
18. Keane - The Night Sky - Original Music video [complete with 'Making-of' Footage]
19. War Child Stories

Release date:
Monday,15 September 2008

Price:
£ 14.99, USD 29.23, € 18.89

More details come here or discuss in the official Keane's forum

Leaving So Soon?

Today we'll publish a Keane's video compilation, that could really be a video, but here he goes.
The artist is named:"Locust".

Keane's Last Post

Q. If you're recording a lyric that Tim's written, do you have to fully understand that lyric before you sing it?
A. http://www.keanemusic.com/data/mp3/2721_tom%20answer%203.mp3 (audio)

What Tom answers:

You know what, I think probably yes, but I think I do anyway... I mean, my own interpretation is obviously important, or as important, but we know each other so well and all the stuff that we talk about sort of infects Tim's writing anyway - and y'know, we're quite passionate people and we get fairly het up, I think recently especially about kind of issues on the way we all act as human beings. I think everyone would probably, or most people would probably agree that its a fairly grim time in terms of humankind at the moment - we're sort of at a tipping point where I don't know and I don't think many other people know exactly where its going, and there's a lot of sort-of "philosophising" on the record and trying to sort-of work out who we are and what we should do next. And also just trying to explain some of the things that are happening around us and some of the crazy things that people seem to do... and what drives them to do those things, y'know - whether that's celebrity culture that we seem to have in our country, or (sigh) the lovely world of terrorism, corporations and superpowers. Those are things that we talk about, so they've infected the songs and from that perspective, I think I have a real grip on what Tim's written about and I would say they're songs that come from all three of us in a lyrical sense.

Vocabulary: Two notes on this one - in case non-English speakers are confused, "het up" is a phrase that means "worked up", to get annoyed or angry about something in a passionate way (at least that's the best translation you'll get from me when I'm just out of bed!). Also, when he says "... the lovely world of terrorism, corporations and superpowers", its said sarcastically... it doesn't come across when its transcribed.