Keane - debut album and tour date

The album - out on Marabou Records, her own cottage industry label - will be released the day after the official launch in Dublin's The Grand Social. A six-date national tour will follow, with details to be announced.

As Keane revealed to Hot Press, "This is a record of eleven lovingly-crafted songs exploring the intricacies of growing up, falling down, getting back up, reaching out, smiling and
reflecting upon it all. Trees resides for the most part in the alternative acoustic genre. The message is overwhelmingly positive."

Trees was recorded in Keane's own studio in Kilmainham and her friend Ben Rawlins' studio in the College of Music and Drama in Rathmines. It was mixed by Rawlins and mastered by Aidan Foley at Masterlabs, with Una and Ben co-producing the record.

In Hot Press, Stuart Clark said "Keane is a classically trained pianist and it's this extra dimension that lifts the four songs included here. The obvious comparisons (Bush, Amos) are certainly hard to avoid but Keane has more than her share of her own personality and a distinctive voice to boot."