RIP ToTP & Keane on ESPN

Thursday, Jun. 22, 2006 - 3:25 a.m.

The British music-chart show Top of the Pops will be airing for the last time in the final week of July this year.

That just doesn't seem possible. I've never even seen a complete episode of this show, but it's still lurking in America vernacular nevertheless. I hate to hear news like that.

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Oh, hey, remember that lovely promise to us by the ESPN people to broadcast Keane's satellite feed during the halftime between England and Sweden during FIFA World Cup on Tuesday afternoon?

Keane was to perform two songs during halftime, live from the Virgin Megastore in Los Angeles, the images of which were to be uplinked to everybody in western civilization.

Instead, here's what American Keane fans were treated to, courtesy of ESPN and ABC.

Halftime update. Commercial. Commercial. Commercial. Commercial. Commercial.

Another halftime update. Commercial Commercial. Commercial.

A fleeting glimpse of Keane, SMACK in the middle of performing "Somewhere Only We Know"... for a grand spanking total of twenty-two seconds, fifteen of which was an extreme close up of Tom's face (yay) followed by the network overlay so we couldn't see him but could only hear him.

Sigh.

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Although I do have to say I'm really enjoying the album. Keane seems to have been able to grow and change, and yet still has the piano-based feel to it and the distinct and strong songwriting.

If you want to see more pictures from the concert, let me know. I took around a hundred, and at least twenty of them came out well enough to upload. :-)

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Okay, there ya are. Happy Thursday and belated happy first day of summer.

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