Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

KEANE Rocks Philadelphia in Celebration of New Album Release Strangeland, June 16

MARCH 27, 2012

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Presents in Association with Live Nation

With Special Guest Mystery Jets

Tickets on Sale Friday, March 30

As part of a 13-city North American tour, British rockers Keane perform onstage at the Merriam Theater on June 16, 2012 at 8 p.m. in support of their fourth album release, Strangeland, to be released May 8 on Cherrytree/Interscope Records. Known for integrating piano and synth into their music, Keane achieved mainstream success with their 2004 album, Hope and Fears, which has since gone platinum nine times over. Their unique style--especially the use of distorted piano--has evolved to include an electronic sound, helping them sell more than 10 million albums worldwide. Opening for Keane is the English five-piece indie band Mystery Jets, whose new album Radlands will be released on April 30. Tickets for Keane’s Philadelphia show go on sale to the public Friday, March 30 at 10 a.m.

 

Keane keyboardist, Tim Rice-Oxley, recently said of the band’s newest album: "Strangeland feels like an adventure that brings with it different things for different people, and like any adventure is full of uncertainty, and the potential for mishap, as well as the possibility of amazing things and glorious discoveries. I love the idea of the journey through Strangeland being a journey of redemption."

 

Tickets for Keane with special guest Mystery Jets are available at $35 to $45, and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center Box Office located on Broad and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, Pa. (open daily from 10am to 6pm, later on performance evenings).

Internationally acclaimed Keane debuted their first single from Strangeland, “Silenced By The Night,” on Jimmy Kimmel Live on March 12. Entertainment Weekly says the track “crackles with candy-colored ‘80s synths and soaring open-air choruses.” In mid-March Keane made their first-ever showing at the SXSW Music Festival, where they performed to packed audiences. Additionally, they recently performed “Silenced By The Night” and “Disconnected” acoustically for NME.com.

 

Keane features singer Tom Chaplin, drummer Richard Hughes, keyboardist Tim Rice-Oxley and bassist Jesse Quin. Keane’s recent albums include Perfect Symmetry (2008); and Night Train (2010), the EP which followed its three full-length predecessors to the top of the British album charts, securing them a place in pop history. If Keane’s feverishly loyal fanbase wondered what the group’s next album would sound like, they weren’t the only ones. In the eight years following the release of 2004’s nine-time platinum Brit award winning Hopes & Fears, every Keane album has marked a clear progression from the previous one: the anxious emotional terrain mapped out by Under The Iron Sea (2006) to the iridescent poptimism of Perfect Symmetry.

 

For more information and a video message from the band, visit www.keanemusic.com.

 

Based on Eel Pie Island, the Bohemian stronghold in Twickenham, London, the Mystery Jets embody British pop at its most invigoratingly weird, creating a strange and bewitching musical universe all their own. The band’s current lineup originates from the lasting childhood friendships of Will Rees (guitar, vocals), Blaine Harrison (vocals, guitar and keyboards), Kai Fish (bass, vocals), Kapil Trivedi (drums), and Blaine’s father, Henry Harrison (lyrics, piano). The Mystery Jets’ discography includes four albums preceding their April 2012 release of Radlands. Their debut recording, Making Dens (2006), climbed to #32 on the U.K. Singles chart.

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Kimmel Center, Inc., a charitable, not-for-profit organization, owns, manages, supports and maintains The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, which includes Verizon Hall, Perelman Theater, Innovation Studio and the Merck Arts Education Center. Kimmel Center, Inc. also manages the Academy of Music, owned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, and the University of the Arts Merriam Theater. Kimmel Center, Inc.’s mission is to operate a world class performing arts center that engages and serves a broad audience which includes providing arts in education, community outreach and a rich diversity of programming. The 2011/2012 season is sponsored by Citi. For additional information, visit kimmelcenter.org.

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