KWN: Night Train launch show announced

KEANE TAKE THE NIGHT TRAIN TO BRIXTON


Hello KWNers. It's all happening...

LONDON LAUNCH SHOW - TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY
We're very pleased to announce that, on Wednesday May 12th, Keane will celebrate the release of their storming new eight-song EP, Night Train, with a special, intimate show at The Fridge nightclub in Brixton. The Fridge show will also provide your first opportunity to witness Night Train collaborator K'Naan performing live with the band. Tickets for the 1,100 capacity gig cost £25 and go on sale at 9am on Wednesday March 24th, via our official store, at www.keanemusic.com/tickets. Please note, the Fridge is an over 18s venue. Tickets are available to buyers from outside the UK (in pounds)..

IS IT A T-SHIRT? NO, IT'S AN MP3-SHIRT!
We've just launched a rather lovely new Night Train T-shirt in the official Keane Store. But this is a T-shirt with a difference. If you pay the special bundle price of £24 (plus P&P), your T-shirt will come with a souvenir swing tag attached, containing a code to download the Night Train EP from Amazon.co.uk in MP3 format (playable on all MP3 players, including iPods), once it's released on May 10th. Click here to check it out. NB: Unfortunately, this offer is only available to UK residents, but those of you outside the UK can still buy the T-shirt on its own, by clicking here. You can also pre-order the special km.com numbered edition of the Night Train CD by clicking here, wherever you are....

HAVE YOU JOINED TIM'S BOOK CLUB?
Over the past couple of months, we've been posting a series of pieces by Tim about his favourite books on the official site. The latest one sees Tim discussing Philip Roth's American Pastoral. and how it inspired Crystal Ball and Atlantic from Under The Iron Sea. Click here to check it out.

See you soon.

Keane Weekly Newsletter

WHICH SHOW IS SOLD OUT?

From the upcoming dates of the Keane Forest Tour there are only a few tickets left. Want to know which shows still have tickets onsale?

At the moment, there are 5 of 7 shows that are completely sold out. There are some tickets left for the live performances only on:

25 June 2010 - Dalby Forest - North Yorkshire - UK
26 June 2010 - Cannock Chase Forest - Staffordshire - UK

Click here for further information and tickets.

VIDEO PREMIERE ON SUNDAY

We're very pleased to report that the Stop For A Minute video will get its world premiere this Sunday night, March 28th, at 12.05am (ie just as Monday begins). It will be on Channel 4 here in the UK. We will then endeavour to get the video up on km.com as soon as we can after that.

If you missed our behind-the-scenes look at the Stop For A Minute video shoot, then click here (the picture on the telly above is taken from that, not from the actual video).

SPECIAL EP LAUNCH SHOW ON MAY 12TH O BRIXTON: UPDATE

The show has now completely Sold Out. Thanks everyone!

We're very pleased to announce that, on Wednesday May 12th, Keane will celebrate the release of their storming new eight-song EP, Night Train, with a special, intimate show at The Fridge nightclub in Brixton. The Fridge show will also provide your first opportunity to witness Night Train collaborator K'Naan performing live with the band.

Tickets for the 1,100 capacity show cost £25 and go on sale at 9am on Wednesday March 24th, via our official store, at www.keanemusic.com/tickets. Please note, the Fridge is an over 18s venue. Tickets are available to buyers from outside the UK (in pounds).

Night Train will be released on CD and download on May 10 - and you can pre-order a special numbered edition of the EP through the Keane Store (for just £6.99 / €8.12 / US$11.44) right now by clicking here.

SPECIAL EP LAUNCH SHOW ON MAY 12TH ON BRIXTON

We're very pleased to announce that, on Wednesday May 12th, Keane will celebrate the release of their storming new eight-song EP, Night Train, with a special, intimate show at The Fridge nightclub in Brixton. The Fridge show will also provide your first opportunity to witness Night Train collaborator K'Naan performing live with the band.

Tickets for the 1,100 capacity show cost £25 and go on sale at 9am on Wednesday March 24th, via our official store, at www.keanemusic.com/tickets. Please note, the Fridge is an over 18s venue. Tickets are available to buyers from outside the UK (in pounds).

Night Train will be released on CD and download on May 10 - and you can pre-order a special numbered edition of the EP through the Keane Store (for just £6.99 / €8.12 / US$11.44) right now by clicking here.

GET THE NIGHT TRAIN MP3 T-SHIRT

We've just launched a rather lovely new Night Train T-shirt in the official Keane Store - the front and back of which you can see above.

But this is a T-shirt with a difference. If you pre-order the special bundle at £24 (plus P&P), your T-shirt will come with a souvenir swing tag attached, containing a code to download the Night Train EP from Amazon.co.uk in MP3 format (playable on all MP3 players, including iPods), once it's released on May 10th. Click here to check it out in the Keane store. PLEASE NOTE: The T-shirts are due to be shipped around May 1st.

NB: Unfortunately, this offer is only available to UK residents, but those of you outside the UK can still buy the T-shirt on its own, for £20, by clicking here.

KWN: Hear Keane's new single now!‏

STOP FOR A MINUTE MAKES RADIO DEBUT - HEAR IT NOW!


CHECK OUT KEANE'S NEW SINGLE
The lead track from Keane's upcoming Night Train EP made its debut across UK radio yesterday (Thursday) morning. You can now hear the song, Stop For A Minute, on keanemusic.com by clicking here. And look out for the official video, featuing Tom and Canadian/Somali rapper K'Naan, on the site soon..

NIGHT TRAIN ARTWORK REVEALED
With the May 10 release of the 8-track Night Train now less than two months away, the (rather lovely) artwork has been revealed. Click here to check it out. We've also posted some great new photographs of the band, which you can see by clicking here.

See you soon.

Keane Weekly(ish) Newsletter

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TIM'S BOOK CLUB #6

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

I read this quite a while ago, when I was writing songs for the second album. It's a very heavy family epic that follows a guy called the Swede. He runs a successful business in New York City and has a lovely family, and it basically charts the disintegration of his family and his values. I'm sure there have been lots and lots of books written about that kind of thing, but this particular one stands out because it's so psychologically complex and you never know what is going to happen next.

The character does everything that you think would be the right thing to do. You don't have that sense you often get with a film or maybe a less dense book, where you can see the mistakes being made and you think "Oh God, that's going to go wrong." He has as much intelligence as you could ask him to have. He attempts to do everything sensitively and tries to be a good parent and husband. But the twists and turns of the way that it all works out are really complex. It's essentially just a totally unglamourous story that could be happening to any of us really. But from a human and psychological point of view, it's incredibly interesting. It's also really quite depressing.

The book definitely shares some of that darkness that runs through Under The Iron Sea. Songs like Atlantic are probably closely related. And, actually, at one point Crystal Ball was called American Pastoral, after the book. The lyrics of that song were actually based around the phrase "American Pastoral" and some of the story, for quite a while. I can't remember why I changed it in the end.

I think my influences as a songwriter come from far and wide, but especially from books. I'm quite a slow reader, and I think I really engage with a book emotionally. Often a book will really be a big part of my life for however long it takes me to read it. Sometimes I'll be dipping into it for weeks and months, reading a few pages at a time, because I have a terribly short attention span. And when I'm not reading it, I'll find myself thinking about it, and talking to other people about it. I think all that does definitely come out in my songwriting.

Tim

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WATCH ACOUSTIC SESSION ON THE SUN'S WEBSITE

This morning, an acoustic session featuring Keane and K'Naan has gone online on The Sun's website.

Click here to watch it.

The band performed three songs, Stop For A Minute, Everybody's Changing and Spiralling, and you can see them all, in full. Plus there are some pictures and you can read an interview with Tom.