Exclusive: Keane’s Richard Hughes On Future Recording Plans, The Band’s Current U.S. Tour & More
Best-selling and award-winning British band Keane — comprised of lead vocalist Tom Chaplin, multi-instrumentalist Tim Rice-Oxley, drummer Richard Hughes and bassist Jesse Quin — formed in the mid-1990s and first found mainstream success with 2004’s Hopes And Fears album. Hopes And Fears was not only the second best-selling British album of 2004, but also the 11th-best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK. On the critical level, Q Magazine ranked that debut album very high at #34 on the “250 Best Albums of Q’s Lifetime 1986–2010” list in 2011.
The followup album, 2006’s Under The Iron Sea was another #1 album in the UK beyond reaching the #4 spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. 2008’s Perfect Symmetry was another platinum-seller in the UK, also charting high around Europe, Australia, and North America. 2012’s Strangeland became Keane’s fifth consecutive #1 release on the UK Albums Chart, and it would Keane’s last album before the multi-year band hiatus from touring and recording that proceeded 2019’s Cause And Effect.
Last summer Keane blew away festival crowds across Europe, beyond U.S. fans through a series of intimate shows, in support of Cause And Effect. The album hit Top 20 on the U.S. Billboard Albums chart and the #2 spot on the UK charts. Meanwhile, CBS’s The Late Late Show With James Corden hosted Keane in June for live performances of the singles “The Way I Feel” and “Love Too Much.”
U.S. touring in support of Cause And Effect continued this month, and upcoming Keane tour stops include Denver (March 13th), Austin (March 15th), Houston (March 16th), Dallas (March 18th), Chicago (March 20th), Nashville (March 21st) and New York (March 28th). More info on these and other Keane tour dates can be found online by visiting the group’s official website at www.keanemusic.com.
I had the pleasure of speaking with Keane drummer Richard Hughes — who kindly took the time to reschedule our original phone call after a last-minute mishap which involved yours truly — by phone on March 10, 2020. The full chat is embedded above for your listening pleasure and is slated to appear on an upcoming episode of the Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz podcast; part of the chat was transcribed exclusively for the popular Chicago-based website Urbanmatter.
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Darren Paltrowitz Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. Since then, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal. Beyond being "Editor At Large" for The Hype Magazine, Darren is also the host of weekly "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" series, which airs on dozens on television and digital networks. He has also co-authored 2 published books, 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press), and co-hosts the world's only known podcast about David Lee Roth, "The DLR Cast."
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