Y’all ready for some early 2000s nostalgia? We all know and love Keane’s alt rock classic “Somewhere Only We Know”, but what you might not have heard is how amazing frontman Tom Chaplin sounds 20 years later! Chaplin led Keane in a show-stopping performance at Glastonbury 2024, which quickly went viral with 5.6 million views after its upload on July 1.
The Music Man readers won’t be surprised to hear the band was firing on all cylinders and Chaplin sounded just gorgeous as always. The real highlight of the performance, though, was hearing the entire 200,000-strong crowd singing every single line back to the frontman. There’s something magical about hearing that many people singing a great song together spontaneously, which made the band’s 2024 Glastonbury set an instant classic.
Keane played on the penultimate day of Glastonbury Festival on June 29, 2024. The East Sussex four-piece rocked the iconic Pyramid main stage at the fest, delivering a hit-packed 13-song set to the crowd. The piano rockers are no strangers to the event, having played Glastonbury in 2004, 2005, 2010, and 2019.
Fans reflected on Keane’s legacy below the video, adding comments such as “It’s 2024, they’ve grown old, we’ve grown old but the song remains young. It is evergreen, what a masterpiece from Keane!” and “Not a duff note. Tom Chaplin is just perfection. Such an underrated band!” Check out Keane’s classic performance of “Everybody’s Changing” at Glastonbury Festival in 2005.
Keane released “Somewhere Only We Know” on February 16, 2004, as the first single from their debut album Hopes and Fears. Chaplin penned the song with his bandmates Tim Rice-Oxley and Tom Richard Hughes. It was a huge hit for the band, going triple Platinum in the UK and double Platinum in the US. The Music Man readers may recall that the band became instant global stars after dropping their debut album. Driven by the success of “Somewhere Only We Know,” Hopes and Fears topped the UK charts and went on to sell six million copies worldwide. Rice-Oxley told Billboard that he wrote the basis of the song while playing the piano, saying that “I was thinking of something like David Bowie’s “Heroes”, which you drive along to a really rocking beat.” The single was one of the first songs the band recorded for their debut album – talk about starting your career with a bang!
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