- Q: Best thing that happened in 2012 for you?
- Tim: Rediscovering my love of being a tourist. I want to spend the rest of my life travelling and learning.
- Q: Finally, what are you looking forward to in 2013?
- Tim: Travelling and learning!
"My mum used to go down to the local little market and every week she’d get me a different Simon and Garfunkel record which was cool. She was trying to educate me, I think."
— Tim Rice-Oxley
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- Q: This morning on the morning show we were asking what their most influential or favourite vinyl album was, do you have one?
- Tom: Come on then chaps, what have we got?
- Richard: You've got some pretty old vinyl, don't you?
- Tom: Yeah, I've got all the Nick Drake albums which are quite a rarity which are probably my most prized possession actually. I love them. They are fantastic things to have.
"I had actually always wanted to write a song with that title - when I was about 16 I remember being on holiday with Richard and having a song that went “Sovereign Light Cafe, down by the sea, go there with me” or something….it was a crap song! Anyway after a gap of many years the phrase popped back into my head and unlocked this idea of looking back to the beginning and trying to work out what had happened to me, and to us, over the last 15 years or so."
— Tim Rice-Oxley on Sovereign Light Cafe (continued)
"This was the first song I wrote for the album, and for a long time it was the only song I felt was a definite contender for the next Keane album. I had a sketch of the melody on a cassette and was listening to it on a flight into Mexico in 2009. I couldn’t come up with any words, but then I was sitting in a bus on the way from Sao Paulo airport to our hotel and suddenly the name of the old cafe on Bexhill seafront came into my head."
— Tim Rice-Oxley on Sovereign Light Cafe
Sovereign Light Cafe single is out today! Please if you’re on twitter, let’s make some noise to promote the single. (Use the hashtag #SovereignLightCafe)
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Part of Keane’s interview with Real Radio.
This has the part where Jesse says, ‘My daughters started calling me ‘Man’ instead of ‘Daddy’
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- Interviewer: Tell us about this new album. It was released back in May and it went straight to number one which makes it the fifth number one album in a row which means there's only one band that's done better than that.
- Tom: There's only one band that's better than us ever... No... It's just a bonus really, it's nothing we set out to do.
- Jesse: British festivals always just have the edge. We know how to do a festival. There are other festivals around the world that are really great, and they are really well organised, and everything is spotless and stuff, but there is some little bit of magic that's missing at a lot of them which you only find even if it's really muddy and everyone-
- Tom: There's people surfing on the mud with a rolled up carpet.
- Jesse: Yeah.
- Tom: like you did Jess.
"I once worked at a festival and it was so muddy that when the crowd left, we tied a big piece of carpet to a dumper truck and just dragged it around the sight and were surfing on the back of it. It’s actually one of the most fun things I ever done I think."
— Jesse Quin
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