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KM.COM GETS BOOTLEGGED!

Here's a funny story for you. You may be aware that Latin American gigs are known for the amazing array of bootleg merchandise which you can always find outside the venue. So, ahead of Keane's trip to Mexico, the local merch bootleggers will have visited this website to see which T-shirt designs they should be, ahem, "paying tribute to" with their own merch.

Now, as you'll know, the Keane Shop is temporarily closed, after Trinity Street ceased trading. That means anyone coming to the Keane site and clicking "Shop" is greeted with this story, which we illustrated with this picture:

Imagine the poor Mexican bootleggers' disappointment - they can't see any of the official T-shirt designs! But, being an enterprising bunch, they've clearly decided to work with what they've got. Therefore, ladies and gents, may we present you with quite possibly the best bit of bootleg Keane merchandise ever: the Keane shopping trolley T-shirt!

How amazing is that?! We feel enormously proud. We also like how they very slightly changed the trolley design, possibly in case it's copyrighted.

Big thanks to Keane's lighting guru Rob for sending through the picture. Here are a couple more which he sent at the same time...



Look out for news on the new Keane online shop soon...

RICHARD´S LATIN AMERICA PHOTOBLOG...

airport / saturday / 1211

waiting for a plane (delay number 2 - i really hope i don't come to regret saying i'd count...); listening to the skeptics' guide to the universe podcast; feeling really good after last night's show - the atmosphere was utterly amazing. the crowd really really rocked (again!) - as tom says, mexico is a great place to come and play music.

i've got some more pics, but i forgot to bring the right cable to the airport, so i can't upload them - i will later.

oh, and it was a nice surprise to see some of my blog pics in Reforma - a newspaper out here... i'll be sending an invoice!

looking forward to the show tonight, and i'm happy to read that NIMW went down well. did you enjoy under pressure? i love playing that song - it really is ridiculously good.



Ciudad de México / friday / 1251

i went for a wander earlier, around a park by el Castillo de Chapultepec, and took a few pics. bumped into a few fans round and about too, which was cool. it's pretty surreal to be in a park in a city over 5,000 miles from home, and bump into someone wearing a keane t-shirt - if you are reading this, i hope you enjoy the show! we are so lucky to be able to come and tour here. wandering around at 10am in t-shirt weather, taking pictures. it doesn't get much better.

now listening to 808s & Heartbreak right now. say you will is an immense opener!

taxi

just three of the myriad wrestling masks you see on sale in the park

prohibido el paso

Republica Mexicana

watering



Ciudad de México / thursday / 1815



made it to Mexico City after a very bumpy (but not delayed!) flight.



i love being here - this is such a colourful country. flying in, i really began to appreciate what a massive city this is (the second largest city by population in the world - over 22 million people according to wikipedia), and you can believe it as you drive through the hectic streets, with so many people and such hectic traffic all fighting for the same piece of tarmac.


we loved the show last night in guadalajara - the crowd was so loud! thanks to everyone who came along, i hope you enjoyed it. makes us look forward to tomorrow and another chance to play some songs. sorry if you missed nothing in my way - maybe we should think about playing that song again! we might even have a go at something else...

arriving in Mexico City


leaving Guadalajara

JQ

CD, TMTTS



a couple more shots of last night's venue
Keane - Archive - Richard´s Latin America Photoblog - 2009

guadalajara / wednesday / 1838

just a couple of pics. soundcheck is done, and we just got a ton of amazing gifts! thanks so much. oh, and it was Jay-Z!






wednesday / 0950

been up for about 3 ½ hours already, and got the black album on. what a record!

really looking forward to the show, and seeing some familiar faces, and hopefully some new ones too!

richard

guadalajara / tuesday / 2200

well, we made it to guadalajara. that was a very long day of travelling. we landed late, rushed to the next terminal, got on the plane, and i instantly felt unwell.

not a good night’s sleep, but a day in the fresh air and sunshine seems to have helped. we went for dinner at Santo Coyote where i took a few pics:

candles

rob:

cheese / mushrooms / onions - this was my dinner - it was tasty.



rob and i popped out to take a few pics before hitting the hay – not my best, but i love the roadside foodstalls here – they are much more like little restaurants than the ones you get in the uk.

TIM'S TWEETS

For those of you not already following the official Keane Twitter page - twitter.com/keaneofficial - we thought you'd like to know that Tim is now posting Tweets to the page, direct from Latin America. His last one was as follows: "Doing phone interviews in Mexico City. Watched Pan's Labyrinth last night. Utterly brilliant. tim"

Head over there to join in the fun (and to "follow" us).

YOUR GUADALAJARA PICTURES

Last night, Keane played their first gig of their Latin American tour in Guadalajara. Lots of you have already uploaded your pictures from the show to the km.com Live archive - click here to check them out. The ones in the pic above were taken by mmdm_00 and macromod.

RICHARD´S LATIN AMERICA PHOTOBLOG

airborne / monday / 1500 mexico time; 2100 uk

we’ve been looking forward to this tour for 18 months – since we were last here. it’s a shame we couldn’t fit in more new countries, though it’s gonna be very cool going to Bogota, Colombia for the first time. my apologies for missing off accents in place names, by the way – i can’t work out how to do it. anyway, the only downside of this tour is that to get around we have 16 flights to do in three weeks. we hate flying. i wish there was a better way to get to mexico, but there isn’t. not that we have time for, anyway. so place your bets – how many of our flights will be delayed or cancelled? so far we are 1/1, having left London about two hours late. Colin (Jesse’s hero) is already in contingency-planning mode in case we miss our connection to Guadalajara. i love any place name that has 5 “a”s in it. can’t think of any others though. it’s 1504 (in Mexico) and i just took these pics on my phone:


Canada looks cold:

this could be the worst pic i've ever put on the blog, but it's tim, and i thought you might like to see him...

the nearest town shown on the map is called Chicoutimi. i can’t be sure where it is – maybe Nova Scotia, or Quebec? one day i want to go to Godthab – it’s always on the map, somewhere in Greenland – we see it every time we fly across the atlantic. i wonder what it’s like. anyway, we are on our way to Mexico. hello Canadians! hello Maher Arar. our ground speed is 563 mph and we have exactly 2600 miles to go (four and a half hours).

i started writing what i’d been doing on the flight, but it is basically a list of time-using things, and it’ll probably sound very boring. but that’s flying for you...

took off! slept, approx 1 hour. read chapters 3&4 of the great war for civilisation; the conquest of the middle east by robert fisk. it’s so depressing to read sentences that talk about the soviets in afghanistan that you hear repeated today, only with the current occupying army instead of the soviets. our so-called leaders learn nothing from history.

listened to democracy now (www.democracynow.org/) and kcrw’s excellent left right and center www.kcrw.com/lrc. i was very saddened by the news of the death of Gerry Niewood, the famous saxophonist - we knew of him from Simon and Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park. He and bandmate, guitarist Coleman Mellett were killed in a plane crash near Buffalo, NY, a crash that took the lives of 50 people, including the peace activist Beverly Eckert http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/17/beverly_eckert_1951_2009_9_11 and Rwandan expert and Human Rights investigator Alison Des Forges http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/16/human_rights_investigator_and_rwandan_expert

caught up on some emails; watched a series of short rock climbing films called committed; then began writing this, listening to beirut – nantes is a cracking song. and in the time i’ve taken typing away we have covered a ridiculous 250 miles, at 581 mph and we are flying towards places called Timmins and Kapuskasing. now listening to Aladdin Sane.


6h 39 mins down, about 4h to go.

heathrow / gate B32 / midday


london / sunday / 1900

packing! n.b. yellow fever vaccination certificate; guide book; film!

one of my cats, archie, wanted to come too:

LATIN AMERICA SUPPORT ACTS CONFIRMED

Mornin' folks. We have the list of bands who'll be supporting Keane on their Latin American adventure.

Guadalajara / Mexico City / Monterrey: Mike Sierra
Bogota: Sexto Sentido
Santiago: Francisco Gonzalez
Buenos Aires: No Lo Soporto and Banda De Turistas
Sao Paolo / Rio de Janeiro: Fresno
Belo Horizonte: Radiotape

If you're going to one of the Mexican shows and ordered your tickets through keanemusic.com, you will need to collect your tickets from the venue box office. Please take photo ID and confirmation of your order.

KEANE TO PLAY T IN THE PARK AND OXEGEN

We're very pleased to announce Keane's first two festival appearances for this summer. The band will play at Scotland's T In The Park and at Oxegen in Ireland. Both festivals run from 10-12 July. We'll confirm which day they're playing them as soon as we can find out...

KEANE TO PLAY T IN THE PARK AND OXEGEN

We're very pleased to announce Keane's first two festival appearances for this summer. The band will play at Scotland's T In The Park and at Oxegen in Ireland, Both festivals run from 10-12 July. We'll confirm which day they're playing them as soon as we can find out...

NICOLE SCHERZINGER: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF

Yes, it's time to unleash Tom's latest "What do you think of?" interview - this time featuring head Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger. Enjoy!

NORTH AMERICAN PRESALE BEGINS

It's 10am in New York and 7am in LA, which means the special km.com presale for tickets to Keane's upcoming US/Canadian shows is now open. Click on the links below to access it, then enter the following password: Perfect.

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8 - Oakland, CA - The Fox Theater - Presale link
9 - Los Angeles, CA - The Hollywood Palladium - Presale link
12 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kingsbury Hall - Presale link
13 - Denver, CO - The Ogden Theater - Presale link
15 - Minneapolis, MN - Myth - Presale link
16 - Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom - Presale link
19 - Washington, DC - Constitution Hall - Presale link
20 - Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theater - Presale link
21 - Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion - Presale link
23 - Toronto, ON - The Sound Academy - Presale link
24 - Cleveland, OH - Tower City Amphitheater - Presale link
27 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall - Presale link