mo rice-oxley

Keane do have Real Bass (Tim record it, but they never play it live)....and about the Guitar sound..its just the sound of a Distored Piano , (Tims electric piano has the same outputs like a guitar,, so what u can do with a guitar, u can do with THAT PIANO! :)

signed i think 2 days ago :)

actually tim wrote put it behind u for Richard...!! Anyway..in my opinion ..the best song is Leaving so soon, then Nothing in my way..and put it behind u,,,bad dreamm.. anyway..i don wanna turn it into a keane thread ..its wont be the right place :D

I am sorry...stop these comparisons..It kinda Reminds me with Britney spears,,and christina Aguilera ..!!!! :P Anyway...one of the things that ppl dont know,,that most of the songs in Hopes and Fears (Keane Debut Album) were written in 1999, before Coldplay were even Well Known worldwide, I mean,,no one is copying the other,,they have got different ways...and I think that Tim is great! he can write his own Music...!!! Stop that Coldplay Keane thing..!!please!

I don get the question..could u explain more please?? anyway..here is an Explaination for the song Hamburg Song was written in America - I seem to remember writing it on a guitar in the back of the bus. But the first time we ever got together and did a demo of it, was in Hamburg on a tour last year [it was 2004].We had a really great day - it was the first time we'd done any work on any new songs and we had a day off so we went into a studio and just worked on some new demos, and Hamburg Song was one of them. It was just labelled on the tape box as "Hamburg Song" and we never got round to changing it. Somehow the name seemed to fit really well with the song Lyrically I guess it's about... again, it's a bit like Atlantic, it's about a fear of what we've got slipping away and I guess it's a plea just to remember what a great thing it is to have a bond between people. And even if you all go off and you do different things and you make different friends and have all these adventures as people do - it's just a plea that at the end of it all you're still the backstop in someone's life, as it were. When we demoed it up, we did it very very simply, and then started to play it live a little bit and we played it very very simply, and Tom's just playing an organ on it. And there was definitely a temptation to turn it into this big ballad, and we just felt ... we actually tried it; we thought we better try it, so we tried putting some drums on it, and that song is all about atmosphere - in fact the whole record, the most important thing was to capture an atmosphere. And we just felt that the best way to do that with Hamburg Song was the way that we'd done it to start off with, which was really really stripped back and simple, so we kept it that way." - Tim - Podcast 3 (30th May 2006)

they have never been a Direct Inspiration for keane!

thats true..but i think that the question of this thread is...how d be coldplay if tim accepted it...!!not who is better! you are right about that!

Wot???coldplay is not an Inspiration for Keane!!!Iam not sayin that coldplay in not great, but I am sorry, Keane and Coldplay cameout together at the same time!!!!

Correction : Tim Rice-Oxley - Songwriter, Pianist, Bassist, Backing Vocal in the Band "Keane" ;) so he is also A Bass Player! --> Yes, Chris Martin is a great song writer...I actually knew Coldplay before I knew Keane, I liked Clocks alot, however I am a massive Keane Fan Now!:) Anyway, I do believe that Tim is genius, his Passionate Lyrics, and a Great Piano player...!I really adore all the song that he Wrote! I think that it would have been hard for them to Continue together...2 Bosses & 2 bass players in 1 band haha! but if they've managed to continue, i think that it would have been maybe both, havin coldplay and keane sound, OR maybe something completely Different! I love this Man^^"TIM" between chris's song writing abilities is not higher than Tim's!!!!!!!!!!! I am sorry, I also remember that they used to lye in the ground together, and think how they can improve their song writing "Chris & Tim"! Ondes Martenot wrote I am sorry, the guy wrote, Chris Martin wanted Tim to join Coldplay, cause he knows very well that Tim is a Genius!!!!! You are very wrong :P

Well, I am fed up with these comparisons..hehe No one can say that coldplay is not a great band..but Keane is also a great Band! I believe that Chris Martin (Coldplays Lead Vocal) and Tim Rice Oxley (Keane's Pianist) were friends at the University, and its said somewhere that Tim Were told to join Coldplay, Before he and Dominic Form Keane! So the two Bands have grown together..and there is no one of them better than the other..However I am a keane Fan..and I like Keane More! I also saw in The Strangers DVD, that Keane, and Coldplay before they became Polpular, they used to play in small gigs ( i donno the name sorry) together. They just have in comman the British rock, but I think after you listen to (Under the Iron sea) Keanes new Album you will know that Every band has its own Direction! Between, they both of them use The Piano, but I don't think that the piano is the Focus in Coldplay!! Thanks :)

I love you Magda!!!:)

Magda.,...I miss u alot!

Hi magda my sweety :hug:

^^woow magda will ski tomorrow... ENJOY IT AND HAVE LOOAAADDDSS OF FUN MY DEAR!

actually i ve opened this thread and it seems that no one misses me,, :cry: :cry: