1 per week - Keane live @ Metropolis, Montreal (2009)

Today's choice is a video that Pats showed to me this week. It's from her favourite band and one of mine too. They are Keane and they have Sir Tom Chaplin and his not common but so characteristic voice has the lead singer.

Here they are singing Sovereign Light Cafe, a new song performed on the September of 2009. The song hasn't been yet featured in any album.

Following is the link of the cafe that this song talks about: http://www.discoverbexhill.com/restaurants/reviews.php?rid=24

According to Oceanrose the song is about enjoying the simple things of our life and  "it was inspired by Tim & Richard's bike rides up to Bexhill/the seaside when they were young".

I'm going back to the time when we owned this town

Down Powder Mill Lane, in the battlegrounds

We were friends and lovers and clueless clowns

I didn't know I'd be finding out now I was torn from you

When we thought about things we were gonna do

We were wide eyed dreamers and wiser too

themed week // Keane, White Christmas

Keane are "one of the greatest bands to emerge in recent times in England" according to Brian May, Queen's guitarrist.

The band released 3 albums and 1EP (that is considered to be an album) - Hopes And Fears (2004), Under The Iron Sea (2006), Perfect Symmetry (2008) and Night Train EP (2010), being nowadays on studio preparing their new album plan to be released in 2012.

White Christmas is originally by Irving Berlin and first released in 1942. The song talks about old-fashioned Christmas settings. Very different artists like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Michael Bublé or Lady Gaga have cover it.

In Keane's version, the original lines were changed to
"The sun's been hiding, the streets are gray,
The rain has been falling down.
Seems everyone wears a frown
for Christmas in London town
It reminds me each time I roamed.
I'm longing to be back home"
read the original here.


Keane's version was recorded after been asked to do a cover for Steve Lamacq's Christmas Show in 2003.

"I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
Just like the ones we used to know
Where the treetops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow"

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Somewhere Only We Know, The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Today I am melancolic and this song it's so pretty!
This one is played by the The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra . It's a very pretty cover, and it almost drived me to tears.
This song by Keane is gorgeous no matter what!