Tim Rice-Oxley

• Name — Tim Rice-Oxley • Birth Name — Timothy James Rice-Oxley • Alias — Tim Rice-Oxley • Born — 2 June 1976 • Birthplace — Oxford, England • Genre — * Alternative rock • pop rock • folk rock • Occupation — * Musician • producer • songwriter • Instrument — * Piano • keyboards • vocals • bass • guitar • Years Active — 1995–present • Current Member Of — * Keane • Mt. Desolation

• Illustration — Rice-Oxley playing his Yamaha CP-70 alongside drummer Richard Hughes during the January 2005 Tsunami Relief Cardiff concert Timothy James Rice-Oxley was born in Oxford to Charles Patrick and Margaret Rice-Oxley. He has a younger brother, Tom, born in 1979, a month after Tim’s bandmate Tom Chaplin. He had piano lessons when he was a teenager but admitted to hating them and never practicing pieces because they were all classical music, which he found boring. After his parents stopped his lessons, Rice-Oxley developed a liking for piano and so taught himself how to play, mainly because of the Beatles.

Rice-Oxley provides live and studio backing vocals for Keane, except for the studio songs "Sunshine", "This Is the Last Time" (demo version) and "Your Love" where he sings the lead vocals, as well as some Under the Iron Sea DVD and Perfect Symmetry demos.

Mt. Desolation is an alt-country side-project that Rice-Oxley formed with bassist Jesse Quin. The band also consists of members of Mumford & Sons, The Killers and The Staves. Mt. Desolation released their self-titled debut album on 18 October 2010. The band toured the UK and Ireland in September 2010 and the US and Canada in October 2010. The band's second album, When the Night Calls, was released on 25 May 2018. It was followed by a short tour of the UK in June 2018.

Rice-Oxley lives in Polegate, East Sussex. He has two daughters, Lilac and Anna. Reportedly, the effects of touring took their toll on Rice-Oxley's marriage to Jayne, and they split up in 2012 after seven years of marriage.

• Studio albums • Hopes and Fears (2004) • Under the Iron Sea (2006) • Perfect Symmetry (2008) • Strangeland (2012) • Cause and Effect (2019) • EPs • Retrospective EP1 (2008) • Night Train (2010) • Retrospective EP2 (2010) • Retroactive – EP1 (2019) • Compilations album • The Best of Keane (2013)

• Studio albums • Mt. Desolation (2010) • When the Night Calls (2018) • Through Crooked Aim (2023)