Keane are made up of Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley and Richard Hughes.
The boys have whipped up a number of prizes since they first formed in 1995. Aligning their walls they have a Q Award for Best Album; 2 Brit Awards and a GQ Award for Band of the Year.
Keane's first two studio albums, Hopes and Fears and Under the Iron Sea achieved great success in the United Kingdom upon release and very high sales worldwide: their multi-award-winning debut was the best-selling British album of 2004 and their follow-up sold 222,297 copies during its first week on sale in June 2006.
The band’s involvement with the Make Poverty History Campaign might have been down to Tom’s experience whilst on a gap year in South Africa in the summer of 1997.
Keane are Patrons of War Child. They first got involved with War Child back in 2005 by donating a track to our Help! A day in the life album – “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”.
In 2007, they curated the War Child Iraq Appeal gig at the Brixton Academy and Manchester Apollo, alongside releasing a single called ‘A Night Sky’ for War Child’.