ALTHOUGH they been going since 1997, Keane had to wait until last summer for the music industry to really sit up and take notice of them.

The song that began to get people talking was Everybody's Changing. Recorded in a living room, the single was a little rough around the edges but it caught the attention of pretty much everyone who heard it, including Radio One's Steve Lamacq, XFM and the music press.

They gathered momentum with their second single, This is the Last Time, in October, but it was Somewhere Only We Know, released earlier this year, that saw the boys become a household name and achieve one of the major benchmarks of having made it in the music industry - an appearance on Top of the Pops - as well as reaching number three in the charts.

To coincide with their current UK tour, the band are releasing a new version of Everything's Changing in May, shortly before their debut album, Hopes and Fears hits the shops .

The single's release shows just how far the Sussex three-piece has come. In May 2003, when Everything's Changing was first released through independent label Fierce Panda no one had heard of the group. Now those same limited-edition singles are changing hands for large sums of money. What a difference a year makes.

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