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Keane Live @ St. Petersburg



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On 5th of April I took a night train and arrived to a beautiful city of St. Petersburg in the morning. The whole trip was a real adventure, though it only lasted for 2 days, but it was fun. I spent afternoon exploring the city, after that I grabbed my booked-ages-ago-from-Moscow ticket from the agency, that part was particularly hard, because me + map + strange city = disaster, but I made it.

Fortunately finding Yubileyny Sports Palace was much easier, as it was right in front of the tube station (I got lost in St. Petersburg metro btw, but that's a long story).
We arrived 3 hours before the show, people were of course already gathering there, only a few hundreds (I say only a few hundreds, because I believe in the whole at least 10000 (!) people came to the gig, that includes both standing and sitting tickets). As you may recall on twitter Jesse was unsure whether they would be able to fully fill the stadium. On the contrary - it was packed!!! (I must add a number of folks like me, who traveled from Moscow was impressing, I recognized almost all of them from the previous gig).

Boys begun once again with 'My Shadow', but there was something wrong with the sound, so Tom started with the second line...but then decided to start the song all over again (giggling)...
The setlist was pretty much the same as at the Moscow gig:
  1. My Shadow 
  2. You Are Young 
  3. Nothing In My Way 
  4. Everybody's Changing 
  5. The Starting Line 
  6. This Is The Last Time 
  7. Sovereign Light Café 
  8. Spiralling 
  9. A Bad Dream 
  10. Disconnected 
  11. Bend and Break 
  12. Black Rain 
  13. Perfect Symmetry 
  14. Somewhere Only We Know 
  15. On The Road 
  16. Bedshaped 
  17. Is It Any Wonder?
Encore:
   18.  Sea Fog
   19.  Silenced By The Night
   20. Crystal Ball

Quick recap of the gig:
a) Gerberas were again thrown from the first rows onto the stage...
b) this time we lighted the glowsticks during 'Black Rain' at the  words '...I open my eyes, everything shines...'
c) another girl did the same trick with 'Tom-wish-me-a-happy-b-day-sign'...not original anymore, but she got what she wanted!
'Would you like tonight to be you Birthday party?' - Tom Chaplin



d) Tom's reaction after 'A Bad Dream' - once again priceless. 'You guys went crazy!'


e) Tom's comparison of the song 'The Starting Line' to the vodka...xD


f) Only one word that Mr. Chaplin learned so far in Russian is - SPASIBO . I shoot that moment on my phone. One fan in the front row screamed 'Your Russian is great!' - Tom's reaction to that - 'Based on one word?' (after a few songs people cheered Spasibo - Guys were delighted, Tom's reply was - 'No, thank YOU'!)


g) Tom - 'In England we all complain about the weather, but really we're pussies compare to you'...'How long is the summer here, like 2 weeks?' - to what we screamed - 'Our summer started today!'


h) My favorite moment when Tom was given Russian flag with the words 'YOUR RUSSIAN ARMY' written on it! 'I guess have to be very careful when I say about this after all what's happened in the past...but it's brilliant to have you here on our side tonight...' - said Tom.



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P.S. Lovely World flag was always covering the drums before the shows!

And a little treat (from Igor Malakhov): (by little treat I mean HQ photos)
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Keane Live @ Arena Moscow



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It's time to make a start    
to get to know your heart...
We have been waiting since September the 3rd 2009! And here they are! Keane came to Russia to present their fourth studio album 'Strangeland'. A gig took place at relatively new venue - Arena Moscow, which opened maybe a year and a half ago. One of the biggest venues in Moscow - Arena seated approximately 5 thousand (!) Keane fans on 4th of April!

I must say, we came prepared for the show. A month ago about 100 of us decided that we should prepare memorable welcome for our favorite band and so we did the following...

firstly, hundred of white A4 signs with the words 'WELCOME BACK!' rose in the air as soon as we saw the boys taking the stage!
secondly, right after the first song dozens of flowers (Gerberas) were thrown on the stage (in Russia it's usually very common to thank artists for their performances with flowers). To this we got Tom's reply - "I think, that's the most beautifully decorated stage I've ever been to". Right after these words poor Tom spent a few minutes collecting them off the stage. He got a handful of the flowers and put them in that box he usually stands on during some songs.
I took a vid of that...


thirdly, the glowsticks - we agreed on lighting them together precisely at the beginning of 'Silenced By the Night' - for the mood! I bet from the stage it looked beautiful.

to all of this I must add endless FREAKIN' LOUD screaming of 'WE LOVE KEANE', 'THANK YOU KEANE', 'СПАСИБО KEANE', 'RUSSIA LOVES KEANE' or simply 'KEANE' on repeat. Sometimes the crowd screamed so loud and for so long, guys couldn't start the song (poor chaps were giving us signals to calm down, but hey - WE CAN'T CALM DOWN, KEANE DON'T COME TO RUSSIA EVERY DAY!)

anyways, the atmosphere was magical/electrified/captivating/energized - those who have been on Keane gigs can continue the list...

Here's the setlist:
  1. My Shadow 
  2. Day Will Come 
  3. Nothing In My Way 
  4. Everybody's Changing 
  5. The Starting Line 
  6. This Is the Last Time 
  7. Sovereign Light Café 
  8. Spiralling 
  9. A Bad Dream 
  10. Disconnected 
  11. Bend and Break 
  12. Black Rain 
  13. Perfect Symmetry 
  14. You Are Young 
  15. Somewhere Only We Know 
  16. On the Road 
  17. Bedshaped 
  18. Is It Any Wonder?
Encore:
   19. Sea Fog 
   20. Silenced by the Night 
   21. Crystal Ball 

Boys started with 'My Shadow', which was a bit unusual as we all expected something energetic, but nevertheless everyone in the crowd took up the melody and started singing!
Tom was especially shocked when during the new songs he heard us also singing along - "I'm so happy to hear you guys know already all the lyrics. You guys are Internet geniuses." - he said.

During the gig there was a girl standing with a sign - 'Tom, please wish me a Happy Birthday!'.
Tom took the sigh and asked her name. "Kate!" - first, he didn't hear and said "Gay?!" xD and then "ah, Kate! But wait that's an English name, are you English?!" (anyways Tom being lovely as usual wished her a Happy B-day and continued the show).
Here it is...

Right before 'A Bad Dream' - Tom mentioned that they haven't played it for ages, but were asked to sing it at the gig during the radio show in the morning. (He also said that they had no idea the song was so popular in Russia, since the venue squealed with delight after he introduced that song - the same happened at St. Petersburg gig btw).
Here's that part...(plus the moment of how Tom reacts on flowers thrown on the stage)
Tom apologizing for the fact that it's taken them so long to release a new record...
I always love the moment when 'Everybody's Changing' starts - the venue bursts with screams. I even saw a grumpy security guard singing along to it.

"You guys are fucking brilliant!" - Tom Chaplin.

Pics time (first ones are from phone)...
sorry for a bit crappy quality but I decided to share everything...
Photos (for some reason blogger is acting up, so I can't upload all of them, so click if you want here for my flickr):
Exclusive treat for you from Anton B. at lifemusic.ru:

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