An alt-country band lead by songwriters Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin from Keane. Tim Rice-Oxley - Vocals, Piano (Keane) Jesse Quin - Vocals, Guitar (Keane), (Jesse Quin & The Mets) Andrew Lowe - Bass FIMBO - Drums John Roderick - BVs, Guitar (The Long Winters) Pete Roe - Keys, BVs Tom Hobden - Fiddle (Noah and the Whale) Jessica Staveley-Taylor - BVs, Guitar (The Staves) John-William Scott - Bass, Guitar Phil Renna - Fiddle, Keys Also featuring:- Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (Also incorrectly known as just Ronnie Vannucci) - Perc, good vibes (The Killers) Country Winston Marshall - Banjo (Mumford & Sons) Charity Quin - BVs Jayne Rice-Oxley - BVs Francois Deville - Pedal Steel Plus lots of other nice people doing lots of other nice things. Mt. ...show more

An alt-country band lead by songwriters Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin from Keane. Tim Rice-Oxley - Vocals, Piano (Keane) Jesse Quin - Vocals, Guitar (Keane), (Jesse Quin & The Mets) Andrew Lowe - Bass FIMBO - Drums John Roderick - BVs, Guitar (The Long Winters) Pete Roe - Keys, BVs Tom Hobden - Fiddle (Noah and the Whale) Jessica Staveley-Taylor - BVs, Guitar (The Staves) John-William Scott - Bass, Guitar Phil Renna - Fiddle, Keys Also featuring:- Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (Also incorrectly known as just Ronnie Vannucci) - Perc, good vibes (The Killers) Country Winston Marshall - Banjo (Mumford & Sons) Charity Quin - BVs Jayne Rice-Oxley - BVs Francois Deville - Pedal Steel Plus lots of other nice people doing lots of other nice things. Mt.

Desolation website Those who have visited Dublin will know that sipping Guinness by a fire in a nice old pub while it's chucking it down outside is one of life's great pleasures. It's also, as you can probably imagine, the perfect setting for eagerly hatching wild ideas and schemes. And so on one such blustery and cold night in September two friends, Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin decided (whilst in wildly animated conversation about music and probably also well on their way to needing a taxi home) that they would make a country album. As with so many ideas that come about on a belly full of Jameson's, in the cold light of day it did not seem like such a good plan.

Two English men trying to sing like Hank Williams was definitely a recipe for disaster. The whole thing was forgotten about in the time it took to recover from the headache that morning. But the headache was to return. Out of the blue a couple of months later Tim emailed Jesse a rough demo of 'Mt. ...show less