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In
2002, after the loss of their guitarist and a period of time
honing their
sound, Keane decided that they needed to get out and play gigs
again. They
booked two acoustic shows, one at the 12 Bar Club, another at
the Betsey
Trotwood. Fierce Panda mini-mogul Simon Williams caught the
Betsey Trotwood gig, and asked Keane to put out a single on his
label. They chose 'Everybody's Changing', a sweeping, majestic
ode to feeling utterly lost when everyone else seems to know the
score, which was recorded for zero pence. "The recording session
was a little rough and ready - the song was literally made in a
room in someone's house," Tom laughs. "And we had to go round to
a different house to mix it, because the speakers broke." It
would be difficult to find origins more desperately indie, yet
Everybody's Changing' sounded like a Number One chart hit before you even
got to the chorus, and it immediately began turning heads. Steve
Lamacq decided that it was one of the best singles in Fierce
Panda's entire history not bad for a label, which housed early
releases from Coldplay, Idlewild and Supergrass. He declared
that Keane were "somewhere between a scuffed Coldplay and a
frankly bewildered Beautiful South", hammering the single on his
show and eventually calling the band in for a session on BBC
6Musicht people,"
Visit the website for audio
tracks and more info at
http://www.keaneband.com
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