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Keane occurs as British rock band from Battle, East Sussex, England. Their musical genre resembles people of post-Britpop bands like Coldplay and Travis, & it is as well inspired and influenced by Norwegian popular trio a-ha. A independent difference between Keane & virtually all more elastic is in the line-higher: it don't have a guitarist, basing their music on the piano instead.

Band history

All the members were at Tonbridge School in Kent. It began call at college around 1997 as a covers band, playing songs by U2, Oasis, and The Beatles but soon wanted to perform their have lesson, & freed ii short-short-term EPs. Simon Williams of Fierce Panda Records was asked by a reciprocal friend to attend a Keane gig at the Betsey Trotwood in London and was so impressed that he offered to issue a band's next single. Fallowing a second lone in Fierce Panda, it signed to Island and released the individual "Somewhere Only We Know", which reached blunt 3 in the U.K. inside February 2004. Their album Hopes and Fears followed in Will. It reached first & was a 2nd large merchandising album of the season in the U.K., fallowing a Scissor Sisters, losing the top spot on the final day of the month.

a b& require their title from either a nurse known as Cherry Keane world health organization, whenever the members of the band were immature, scanned fallowing the two and divine confidence in their musical ability.

A band won both awards at a 2005 Brit Awards — Best British album for Hopes & Fears and a British breakthrough work award, every bit voted by hearer of BBC Radio 1. Inside Will 2005, it received a Ivor Novello award as songster of the month. "Everybody's Changing" was nominated for the song of the year but the award was given to The Streets' "Dry Your Eyes". A band come presently a patrons of War Child. Inside September 2005 it contributed the handle of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" to Help: a Day in the Life — an album aiming to repeat the profits of 1995's The Help Album by becoming the fastest low album ever produced.

Keane gained a select few visibility in the United States in Fall 2005 by opening some shows for U2; onstage they claimed Achtung Baby as one of their biggest influences. A few recently songs were played too when their right-known poop.

Based on data from a Keane fansite [http://www.keane.at/secondalbum.htm www.keane.at], it own been working in their 2nd album since April 2005, by using Andy Green producing; recording has been taking place inside Rye, East Sussex (where Hopes and Fears was recorded) and, further recently, around New York City. A album is widely required to become freed inside 2006.

Band members
Tom Chaplin (vocals) Richard Hughes (drums) Tim Rice-Oxley (piano, bass) Dominic Scott (guitar, left July 2001)

Discography
Albums