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Artist News
Keane not splitting, merely taking a break
By Aly Barchi | Published on Tuesday 22 October 2013
Noooooooo. Keane have revealed that, sixteen years into a highly acclaimed career in providing ambience at dinner parties, they are taking a hiatus.
Speaking in reply to media hearsay that the band had split permanently, lead singer Tom Chaplin said via Real Radio Yorkshire: “This is something that has been twisted by one particular article in one particular newspaper over the weekend. All we’ve said is that we’ve been very busy for a few years and we’d like to take a bit of time out from being Keane, and somehow that has morphed into ‘Keane are splitting up'”.
The trio do remain, err… ‘keen’ on each other though, and say they will stay friends during the band’s downtime. Chaplin, meanwhile, is said to be making a solo LP.
And as way of a postscript to all this trauma, this is Keane’s 2004 single ‘Bedshaped’, which will be released as part of their upcoming ‘greatest hits’ compilation, ‘The Very Best Of Keane’. Yeah.
