Keane "Live At Paradiso 29.11.04" (2024 Record Store Day double-LP)
For Record Store Day in 2024, the British alternative band Keane issued a live album titled Live At Paradiso 29.11.04. Limited to 2,500 vinyl copies, the album documents a concert performed by the band in Amsterdam in late November of 2004, the year in which their debut album Hopes and Fears was released. The double-LP was pressed in one red vinyl disc and one white vinyl disc.
During the titular concert at the historic Amsterdam venue, the band performed 11 of the 12 tracks from Hopes and Fears, as well as the non-album B-side "Snowed Under", and two songs ("Nothing In My Way" and "Hamburg Song") which would later be recorded for Keane's 2006 sophomore album Under The Iron Sea.
The band did an amazing job of performing the songs live, suggesting that the material had been developed over time. Tom Chaplin's falsetto vocals do not soar quite as high in this live setting as they do on record, but his soft and emotive tenor is still powerful, despite showing an occasional rough edge on selections such as "This Is The Last Time" and "Your Eyes Open". Tim Rice-Oxley's piano and keyboard work sounds great here. Chaplin refers to the band as "us three" while speaking to the audience at one point, suggesting that the same trio (Chaplin, Rice-Oxley, and drummer Richard Hughes) who recorded the studio album also performed this concert. However, there seems to be an audible bass, an instrument which Rice-Oxley also played on the studio album, co-existing with his keyboards here. There are no musician credits on the Paradiso album to clear this up. Whatever the case may have been, the band was certainly in fine form for this concert. The band's early piano-based alternative pop, which at that time involved no lead or rhythm guitars, certainly invited comparisons to Coldplay -- in fact, Chaplin bore a bit more vocal resemblance to Chris Martin in this setting than he did in the studio. But Keane had their own distinctive, sensitive post-Britpop brand. Although this entire concert is a pleasure to hear, the second LP is the better one, thanks to better song selections and clearer sound quality. Live At Paradiso 29.11.04 is a fine collectible for fans of Keane's first two albums.
(Note: The center stickers on the two LP's do not say which side is which, but if you look at the dead wax between the runout grooves, you will see a helpful "A" or "B" engraved).
Keane "Live At Paradiso 29.11.04" (Island 5864211) 2024
Track Listing:
1. Can't Stop Now
2. Everybody's Changing
3. Sunshine
4. Snowed Under
5. We Might As Well Be Strangers
6. Bend And Break
7. Nothing In My Way
8. On A Day Like Today
9. Hamburg Song
10. Your Eyes Open
11. She Has No Time
12. Somewhere Only We Know
13. Allemande
14. This Is The Last Time
15. Bedshaped
During the titular concert at the historic Amsterdam venue, the band performed 11 of the 12 tracks from Hopes and Fears, as well as the non-album B-side "Snowed Under", and two songs ("Nothing In My Way" and "Hamburg Song") which would later be recorded for Keane's 2006 sophomore album Under The Iron Sea.
The band did an amazing job of performing the songs live, suggesting that the material had been developed over time. Tom Chaplin's falsetto vocals do not soar quite as high in this live setting as they do on record, but his soft and emotive tenor is still powerful, despite showing an occasional rough edge on selections such as "This Is The Last Time" and "Your Eyes Open". Tim Rice-Oxley's piano and keyboard work sounds great here. Chaplin refers to the band as "us three" while speaking to the audience at one point, suggesting that the same trio (Chaplin, Rice-Oxley, and drummer Richard Hughes) who recorded the studio album also performed this concert. However, there seems to be an audible bass, an instrument which Rice-Oxley also played on the studio album, co-existing with his keyboards here. There are no musician credits on the Paradiso album to clear this up. Whatever the case may have been, the band was certainly in fine form for this concert. The band's early piano-based alternative pop, which at that time involved no lead or rhythm guitars, certainly invited comparisons to Coldplay -- in fact, Chaplin bore a bit more vocal resemblance to Chris Martin in this setting than he did in the studio. But Keane had their own distinctive, sensitive post-Britpop brand. Although this entire concert is a pleasure to hear, the second LP is the better one, thanks to better song selections and clearer sound quality. Live At Paradiso 29.11.04 is a fine collectible for fans of Keane's first two albums.
(Note: The center stickers on the two LP's do not say which side is which, but if you look at the dead wax between the runout grooves, you will see a helpful "A" or "B" engraved).
Keane "Live At Paradiso 29.11.04" (Island 5864211) 2024
Track Listing:
1. Can't Stop Now
2. Everybody's Changing
3. Sunshine
4. Snowed Under
5. We Might As Well Be Strangers
6. Bend And Break
7. Nothing In My Way
8. On A Day Like Today
9. Hamburg Song
10. Your Eyes Open
11. She Has No Time
12. Somewhere Only We Know
13. Allemande
14. This Is The Last Time
15. Bedshaped
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