![]() ![]() Tom Chaplin: I’m sorry we have to perform in this giant shed!Įnough of my grumbles and back to the concert! I mean, next time, even if I have to eat gruel for a month, I will buy Category 1 tickets! My photos and videos were really shitty because the maximum zoom couldn’t do much. What the hell! The standing pen wasn’t even half-filled. But those ushers got security to chase them away and I guess if all of us wanted to storm through, we could. You don’t even sit so far when watching TV. When the concert started, of course people started running to the barricade to get a better view of the band. I saw lots of people asking the ushers going back out to check for extra tickets to the standing pen. If I had bought Category 3 (which means I can only see Tom Chaplin like you can see a bird flying up in the sky), I might just kill myself. I think I don’t just speak for myself when I say the entire Category 2 seaters were disappointed. “Thanks” to the organizer – Trilogy Live. Imagine my disappointment 1) when I didn’t see any tour merchandise on sale and 2) when I saw the super large hall and my Category 2 seats half a hall away from the stage. Hopes and Fears is one of my favourite albums and Under The Iron Sea was a really strong influence during a low part of my life. I was really looking forward to the concert because their concert back in 2009 was one of the best live concerts I have ever experienced. To take turns as the stars of the Sovereign Light Café” ![]() Let’s go down to the bandstand on the pier 9/10.“Let’s go down to the rides on East ParadeĪnd watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café The album concludes with the ballad ‘ Sea Fog‘ and again brings them back to the safety of their East Sussex coastal homeland upbringings. Great melodies and harmonic vocals shows they have not lost any of the shine. ‘ In Your Own Time‘ surely is the classic Keane sound of yesteryear. The song builds up throughout when the chimes re-appear to end another slice of ‘cultured pop’.Īs if they had recharged their batteries the band launches into the blistering ‘ Day Will Come‘ and Tom announces “ some day we will set the world on fire“, with this album if nothing else they have lit the touch-paper. Next ‘ Neon River‘ certainly lights our way into the way Keane feel now, certainly more relaxed and confident. Strangely at it may seem it almost sounds as earthly as you can get. It uses an electronic back beat along that submerges with the woodwind and string sounding electronics. Almost in the range of choirboy vocals dominate the next song ‘ Black Rain‘. Four musicans and a fourth album most definitely gives them a more solid foundation and far from the recited words “ we’re too old to stand here waiting to break up”. This is certainly a piece of majestic mellow music. The chiming keyboard heralds the beginning of ‘ The Starting Line‘, for some reason I get feeling I need an ice-cream. With the break in the middle you can imagine their fans clapping along when they will perform this live. The driving drums of Richard Hughes shape the track ‘ On The Road‘ perfectly a sure-fire single at some point I would most definitely say. It seems to be a song describing that they are at their most happiest when in their local surroundings even though there are many distractions out there to tempt them. ‘ Sovereign Life Cafe‘ soon brings back the zest to the album. ![]() This is possibly one of Tim Rice-Oxley‘s more refined compositions on this album. “ The things we have shared, will soon be left behind now“, sparks a glorious choral middle to the song. The pace slows down for ‘ Watch How You Go‘ that shows the clarity of the production. Tom’s dabble with Queen members is very audible with a Freddiesque ‘ ooooooohhhh‘ that can be heard throughout. We then have ‘ Disconnected‘ completing a trilogy of upbeat tracks. “ If I am the river, you are the ocean“, quite apt as the song’s beats slowly that wears you down like the sea pounding on the coastline. This slips into the lead single of ‘ Silenced By The Night‘ already a classic. Tom Chaplin’s vocals do seem more mature and most definitely benefitted from some vocal training. The album commences with ‘ You Are Young‘ a real breezy light-hearted affair, with the customary piano driving the song along. Keane are now a fully fledged four piece act with the inclusion of bass player Jesse Quinn. They are often compared to their contempories Coldplay and indeed there are many links between both bands. The fourth studio album by Keane landed on my doorstep the other day so I thought I’d best give you my impressions of ‘ Strangeland‘. ![]()
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