This is Keane's third single from their second album, 'Under The Iron Sea' and, unsurprisingly, it finds the band yet again sounding as if they've just had a quick rifle through Chris Martin's discarded songbooks before hitting the studio. The main problem with this single is that it is so ... read more

For five years now, Keane have been maligned as boring, simpering, about as rock ’n’ roll as a bridge club. If Coldplay were bedwetters, this tidy Sussex trio were swimming in it. So why, just as they’re getting interesting, are the public losing interest? Latest album Perfect Symmetry spent 17 ... read more

You could sense the anticipation in the bar before Keane took to the stage - the guitar-free threesome have been praised by all the right people and we were expecting big things. Any doubts about whether the combination of just piano, drums and singing would really work live were short lived. ... read more