Keane Singer In Boozy Coke Rehab
Then buzz it up
August 22nd, 2006 at 14:00 by Stuart Heritage
And there was us thinking that the only thing Keane singer Tom Chaplin was addicted to was pies and whiny piano ballads. Turns out he's fond of getting wasted on booze and cocaine, too.
Previously thought of as about as rock and roll as a nice sit down with a scone and a sudoku book, Keane have only shown flashes of rebellious behaviour once before, when one of them said they didn't like Oasis. And that was last year - a full eight years after everyone else had stopped liking Oasis. Hardly thrilling stuff. But earlier this year, Keane were forced to cancel shows in Edinburgh and Ibiza because moon-faced Keane singer Tom Chaplin was suffering from 'exhaustion'.
Now, exhaustion never actually means exhaustion - unless Tom Chaplin had actually exhausted himself by writing too many rubbish MOR songs and being all defensive about being called a tosser in interviews, there was always going to be something else going on. And there was - Tom Chaplin had secretly been lost in a spiral of alcohol and cocaine abuse, and has decided to bugger off to rehab to do something about it, as he told The Sun:
“I’ve admitted myself to The Priory to get the professional help I need to overcome my increasing problem with drink and drugs. I’m looking forward to sorting myself out and getting back to playing again as soon as possible."
Jesus Christ, so Keane sounded like a particularly dull women's institute meeting even when they were off their faces on booze and illegal drugs. We can't even begin to imagine how dreary the inevitable Keane 'cleaned up after rehab' album is going to be.
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August 24th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
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August 29th, 2006 at 12:36 am
LOL. Even though I actually love Keane’s work, “can’t even begin to imagine how dreary the inevitable Keane ‘cleaned up after rehab’ album is going to be” is pretty funny.
Cocaine eh? My favourite Keane song is one of their b-sides, ‘Snowed Under’. Now it has a WHOLE new meaning.
January 30th, 2007 at 9:34 am
[...] If you’re familiar with rock star gossip (which I admit, I wasn’t), you might have heard that Tom Chaplin, the lead singer has recently spent some time in rehab. I’m not sure it totally worked, cause the dude has got to be on something to have that much energy on stage. Maybe his power lies in the super tight black pants. All three central members of Keane wore surprisingly skintight black pants while prancing across the stage in their rock and roll glory, which wasn’t a look I’d really associated with their super-mellow sound. I can’t bring myself to hold the pants against them though, because even now, four days later, I can see the show when I hear their music, and it makes it better. [...]
May 15th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Hold your tongue and learn not to be so opinionated. ‘Addicted to pies’, ‘moon-faced’, ‘too many rubbish MOR songs’ - real mature writing. And you know, not everyone has that opinion. I’m not the biggest Keane fan ever, but I know the difference between bias and non-bias learning, clearly something you need to learn. Give him a break, he’s just gone into rehab…if it was someone you knew, I think - no, I know - you’d take a much more sombre approach to it. Put yourself in the position of people close to him and give them a break too.