Keane @ Sound Academy
Originally uploaded by vasquezr
Keane @ Sound Academy
Originally uploaded by vasquezr
The boys from Battle,East Sussex rolled into Toronto last week for the first time since May of 2007. Known for their piano/keyboard rock/pop style they wowed the packed audience at the Sound Academy. The band played a set of about nineteen songs almost half from their latest release "Perfect Symmetry". As always Tom Chaplin could be found encouraging the fans to sing their hearts out and sing they did.
Keane @ Sound Academy
Originally uploaded by vasquezr
Keane (Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley, Richard Hughes, and new addition the Mighty Quinn) seem to have a knack for writing very catchy tunes that had the two thousand plus fans at the Sound Academy singing to the top of their lungs. Granted most of them aren't blessed with the vocals of Chaplin himself but hey its all good fun.
Keane @ Sound Academy
Originally uploaded by vasquezr
Keane @ Sound Academy
Originally uploaded by vasquezr
The set started off with "Lovers are Losing", followed by old crowd favourites "Everybody's Changing" and "Bend and Break". The band slowed things down through the middle of the set with "Playing Along", "Try Again", and "You Haven't told me Anything" and then build back up to finish off the set with two great sing along songs "Somewhere Only We Know" and "Crystal Ball". During the short wait for the encore fans could be heard chanting Keane, Keane, Keane with almost as much fervor as USS fans. With no surprise the last song was once again Bedshaped.
Keane @ Sound Academy
Originally uploaded by vasquezr
Keane @ Sound Academy
Originally uploaded by vasquezr
Keane have announced a Canadian tour starting in September. Toronto is not on the list but they will be playing a couple of shows in Ontario, Thunder Bay and Kitchener. I had originally speculated that they may be playing the Ontario leg of Virgin Festival... but the dates don't seem quite right. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Photographers Notes:
The Sound Academy is one of Toronto's best lit venues. For this show I used my canon 17-55 2.8 along with a rented canon 70-200 2.8 mounted on my trusty 40D. Lately I've been using my 40D exclusively in an effort to travel light. This works nicely for club shows with no song limit. I may think about carrying two bodies again for pit shows since changing lenses just seemed to waste too many precious seconds.
