2012年3月 XFM电台采访Keane: 《Perfect Symmetry》是一次自我陶醉

来源：http://www.xfm.co.uk/news/keane-perfect-symmetry-was-self-indulgent
采访录音：http://ondemandpopout.musicradio.com/station/59/audio/186985

13 March 2012

Tom Chaplin claims the band have gone back to basics for new album…

Keane have told Xfm that the music on their last album Perfect Symmetry was “self-indulgent” and that they’ve gone back to basic, three-minute pop songs for their new record.

Speaking to Xfm’s Eoghan McDermott, singer Tom Chaplin explained that they’d “locked away” songwriter Tim Rice-Oxley to start work on their fourth LP, Strangeland – and that he had a new mission.

“We felt that Perfect Symmetry was pretty sprawling, a little bit self indulgent in places…” Tom said. “Certainly sonically – we referenced Bowie, Talking Heads, those kind of bands, which was quite an unusual step for us. With this record, we felt we wanted to get back to having a problem with choosing singles. Like being stick with ten or twelve real single contenders from the album. We’ve had a lot of headaches over which song we should release first!”

But their new material still bears the Keane hallmark of being very personal: “Great rock and pop music has to be very direct and from the heart. We’ve put all our personal experiences in. It’s like having therapy with the rest of the world. It’s a very personal part of you and how you feel and then you put it out there. It’s kind of a weird dynamic.”

You can hear the full interview below. Srangeland is released on May 7 and the first single, Silenced By The Night, is getting airplay on Xfm right now.

2012年3月Q杂志：Keane录音室专访

2011年4月15日优酷娱乐播报：Keane乐队“忙里偷闲”专赴音乐厅赏民乐 贝斯手玩性大发当场学琵琶

来源：http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjU4OTQ5NzY4.html

首次现身内地的英国著名乐队Keane(基因乐队)在4月14号下午，专程来到中央民族音乐厅，欣赏古老而美妙的中国民乐。看着台上的演奏，几人不时发出赞叹。在排练休息的时候，Keane饶有兴趣的上台与乐队成员交流。热情的队员为他们演奏了几首风格迥异的民乐，Keane在仔细倾听的时候还随着拍子打节奏，看来中国的民族音乐对他们很是吸引。

形状独特的民族乐器勾起了Keane的兴趣，听完演奏队员的解说后，贝斯手竟然拿过琵琶亲自上阵，打算与乐队合奏一曲。一转头又看见二胡，非让队员拉上一首，不知道听得如痴如醉的Keane会不会在回到英国后，把中国的民乐元素融进自己的音乐里，让中西音乐碰撞出精彩的火花。

2011年4月21日环球时报评论：“仅限邀请”遭猛击，Keane期待能在中国开演

China concerts planned after disappointment at Brits’ invite-only bashes
[22:50 April 21 2011] By Jiang Wanjuan
来源：http://life.globaltimes.cn/entertainment/2011-04/647375.html

From the Great Wall to the Forbidden City and Tian’anmen Square, British band Keane checked the capital out like most other foreigners who had just arrived to a new country – but when they played at two performances in Beijing last week, the Chinese audiences singing along reminded them that they were no strangers here.

It was the first time that the popular rock band had set foot on the Chinese mainland, where thousands of fans had listened to their music since middle school and were keen to see them live – but oddly they chose to do so only at invitation-only performances. The band played a brief set at the exclusive (and much-vaunted) Burberry launch party before playing a second, weekend gig at Beijing’s Tango-Star Live club, yet another private party; this time to celebrate the eighth birthday of local radio show Hit FM.

“I was surprised when I heard of Keane’s performance in China. I started to listen to their music five or six years ago,” said 25-year-old Su Lang, who was fortunate enough to win tickets to the event from the popular CRI channel. “If you listen to British pop, or British rock, there is no way you can skip Keane.”

Although the band has definitely won mainstream success with sales STET 10 million, their piano-led melodies and resistance to the traditional electric guitar sound has set them apart from other commercial bands and perhaps, to some extent, explains their success.

“Music is what’s most important and everything else take second place. If the music is good, then you can do whatever you want,” drummer Richard Hughes told the Global Times, before making a pointed reference to Lady Gaga. “You can be very creative, getting carried into a ceremony in an egg or wearing ridiculous clothing. [But] if you can bring some originality into it, then fashion or whatever can [go] along with it too.”

It’s been two years since their last studio album, Perfect Symmetry – not counting 2010 EP Night Train – and Hughes suggested it might be another year’s wait hence for their fourth.

“We don’t think it will come out this year… maybe next year,” said Hughes.

“As soon as you have a deadline, you start to make mistakes. We are just trying to get the music finished first and then worry about the release.”

Keane performed most of their hit songs at Hit FM’s party, such as “Everybody’s Changing” and “Somewhere Only We Know” in an otherwise short 40-minute performance. The fully packed club saw around 1,000 fans singing, cheering, screaming and sweating in the relatively small venue. The fans consisted of an almost equal mix of female and male youngsters, but also spotted among the crowd was a middle-aged Chinese man losing himself in the music.

Lead singer Tom Chaplin expressed surprise to find so many fans in China, unaware of the thousands more, perhaps, watching over the Web and blogging about how excited and disappointed they were. But maybe Chaplin’s informal promise of a future concert served as a comfort for them.

“This will be the first of many, many visits to this amazing country,” Chapman told the audience. “We have had an incredible treat in China. We hope to come back and play some more next time.”

2011年4月19日中国日报现场回顾：Keane歌迷爱现场演出

Keane fans love it live
Updated: 2011-04-19 08:47 By Chen Nan (China Daily)
来源：http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2011-04/19/content_12352015.htm

Keane is a band to watch – as was evident at its debut show in Beijing on Saturday night.

Pointing a finger toward the crowd at Starlive, the lead vocalist Tom Chaplin sang, “But everybody’s changing. And I don’t feel the same”, as more than 1,000 fans sang and chanted. It was a moment of mutual affirmation.

“We didn’t expect you would sing along with us,” Chaplin said, addressing the crowd. During the one-and-a-half-hour performance, he sang nearly 20 songs from their previous massively successful albums. Some of the standout moments of the night were heart-tugging anthems, including This is the Last Time, She has No Time and Bend and Break.

Keyboardist, pianist Tim Rice, drummer Richard Hughes, bassist Jesse Quin, and Chaplin closed the night with the hit song, Somewhere Only We Know.

“We will come back soon,” Chaplin said, waving goodbye to fans.

“If U2′s Bono is a spiritual hero like God in heaven, then Keane are angels. Their music is so British and the singer’s voice is so beautiful,” said Liu Bo, 25, a fan.

Compared with the band’s first show in Beijing a week ago, a commercial event for Burberry, its performance on April 16 was “much more musical, which allowed us to feel the crowds and do the music”, said Rice, who is the band’s main songwriter.

“We hadn’t done a live show for four months and it was really exciting to see the crowds here in Beijing.”

The trio – Rice, Chaplin and Hughes – began making music together as teenagers. They were found by Fierce Panda Records’ founder, Simon Williams (who also discovered Coldplay), in 2003 and offered a contract. That led to the debut album Hopes and Fears, in 2004, which catapulted Keane to world fame, selling almost 6 million copies and picking up many awards.

“We didn’t expect all this success. For us, it was great enough to put our first album out and release it,” Rice said.

The second album, Under the Iron Sea, topped the UK’s album charts. The third album, Perfect Symmetry and fourth, Night Train, are loaded with songs the four musicians from Battle, East Sussex, created between gigs, showing yet another sonic swerve, but staying close to the heavily piano-based sound which has earned them the name “the band with no guitars”.

“It was an accidental success in some ways. Because we didn’t have a guitarist at the beginning and I am good at piano,” Rice said. “It was a surprise to find that things work out without guitar.”

The band played in 28 countries and regions in 2010, from Russia, Australia and Columbia, to South Korea and Lebanon.

“We are always absorbing the influences from all around,” Rice said. “We would head to studios and work on tracks any time there was a gap in our schedule. That’s what we love.”