Steph and I went to see Keane on Wednesday evening at the Orpheum Theatre in Downtown. This was the last date of their North American tour, which was supposed to happen in October but got delayed due to some rehab issues.
They put on an excellent live show, right from the beginning where they began with a crescendo of synthesizer and red light - somewhat reminiscent of Muse. The lead singer Tom was pretty manic, and danced and jumped around the stage like a grasshopper on speed. Despite that, his vocals were faultless and as a whole the band sounded great through the Orpheum's sound system. The theatre was a pretty cool venue - inside it is somewhat churchlike in grandeur. They had a good lightshow too to jazz things up.
They played all their best songs from the two recent albums, interspersed with Tom chatting quite a bit to the audience, mainly to tell us how great we were. Things started off fairly subdued, but they soon got into it and pretty soon everyone was cheering and yelling. And singing along of course, as was I. The lead singer let the crowd do the singing a few times (most notably on "Somewhere Only We Know") and we certainly held our end up :) I don't think I've really heard a louder crowd at a gig in Vancouver. The atmosphere was great. I hope it will encourage Keane to come back again soon, because we had a great time.
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