So why no guitars then?
"I find the fact that the guitar has taken over quite weird. The piano's been around for hundreds of years in various forms and the guitar has been around a much shorter time so it's quite strange that it dominates popular music to such an extent.
In the current climate, you get bands like Ben Folds Five - they use piano an awful lot, Hope of The States have a piano live, Coldplay obviously. Piano is there, it's just not the focus.
Guitar has got to such a point where you get the three boys from Busted all doing the jump up in the air at the same time, and I certainly find that some of the people at our gigs are relieved that there isn't someone jumping up at the start of the chorus doing the classic Pete Townshend move! It's not a statement, and we'll probably end up using guitars at some point. It's just the way that works for us, we've just evolved into this way - we did actually have a lead guitarist, but he left the band."
Tom also used to play guitar in the previous lineup, as did lead guitarist Dom Scott. He picked up an acoustic guitar again for the October 2006 UK tour, for an acoustic version of Your Eyes Open, and at an Apple Store gig (12th December 2006) it featured on A Bad Dream and Is It Any Wonder.
Where can I find lyrics and guitar tabs?
Lyrics are available from http://keaneshaped.co.uk/disco.
There is piano sheet music available for Hopes and Fears from Amazon and also Somewhere Only We Know from musicroom.com.
However, simple tabs for every released Keane song ever are still available for free, from http://keaneshaped.co.uk/tabs.
Who writes the songs in the band?
