KEANE IN DUBAI

Taken from Time Out Dubai (to read the whole article click here)

"Well, starting off gingerly, the other two members of the band do actually have names – Tim Rice-Oxley (a rather lovely name, at that), their composer, bassist, and pianist, and Richard Hughes, their drummer. It is this man, Richard Hughes, who has been assigned with revealing whether Keane really do cut the mustard, as we speak to him ahead of their first ever Middle East show in Dubai this Wednesday.

While Hopes And Fears secured their pigeonhole as Britain’s masters of the piano rock ballad, Under The Iron Sea went darker with distorted piano sounds (and picked them up a strong Mexican following, intriguingly), now Perfect Symmetry introduces rock guitars and a relatively sunnier sound. But will they ever leave behind their signature piano sound? ‘We’ve never been a band that just has an idea for the sake of it, like “let’s stop using the piano!”, “Why?” “Oh, because it’s an idea”,’ he explains. ‘But if the piano doesn’t suit the songs then we won’t use it. So yeah, I can foresee a time when we have a record that doesn’t have piano on it. It’s entirely possible" (oh noooo!! I love the piano guy!)

Keane as mustard

If each member of the band was a certain type of the golden condiment, which would they be? Richard explains.

Richard: ‘I’m definitely wholegrain mustard. I’m a vegetarian, so I love it.’
Tom: ‘He’s English mustard. Tom likes a Sunday roast lathered in the stuff.’
Tim: ‘Tim would be Dijon mustard then, purely by default'