Keane Channels Touring Angst into New LP

Despite the whirlwind year British trio, Keane, had in 2005 with a best-selling album and a tour with U2, touring left the band frustrated and by the end they were barely speaking to each other.



"I think we were pretty spent," said drummer Hughes as he sat in a hotel bar with the rest of the group. "It seemed to us like we'd been touring a long time and we'd stopped communicating and sort of started to shut ourselves off a bit just to survive, and you enter a sort of crash mode."

Though one would expect the band to scatter in opposite directions as soon as they stepped foot back in Sussex, they rather headed back into the studio. Much like The Zutons, they channeled the angst of touring into more music.

I understand that the creative process is different for different artists, but if rappers from the projects in Brooklyn can make millions rapping about dancing with girls in St. Tropez, rock bands should be able to roll with the punches and find inspiration wherever they go. Touring is not a new phenomenon,and neither is post-tour fatigue. Look alive people, there are songs yet to be sung!

"We've always evolved as people making music," said (drummer, Richard) Hughes. "It's just that the first five or six years of it, no one was watching ... now it's sort of in full view."

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