Keanundrum

What a quality heading for this post – absolutely splendid! And sorry, but that’s the only Keane picture I could face posting.
So, Keane, how did they come up then? Well last week’s Friday Fives started out as a conversation in the pub the previous night. Can’t Stop Now by Keane came on and I remember confessing that actually, if it existed in total isolation, I wouldn’t mind that song especially. The vocal melody around the chorusy bit it fairly unusual and all-in-all I don’t particularly mind it.
This reminded me of when Keane first made the breakthrough – something like five years ago, give or take. A massive swell of excitement caught a lot of people. I wasn’t all that aware of it because I didn’t really buy singles at that point, and the album was yet to emerge, so I didn’t think much about it but I do remember just how excited the NME were. Read the rest of this entry »

