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" After ten years of success in the music biz, Keane&amp;#039;s Best Of... is easily one of the most deserving retrospective albums in this year&amp;#039;s busy Christmas schedule.  With the collection out this week, we spoke to drummer Richard Hughes to reflect on the last decade and find out what the future holds for the band.  What was it like looking back over the last ten years of Keane? Did it open up old wounds and now you all hate each other? &amp;quot;Not at all! It was fun - I hadn&amp;#039;t listened to our earlier work for years. There were songs that I&amp;#039;d forgotten we&amp;#039;d released! Songs like &amp;#039;On A Day Like Today&amp;#039; I&amp;#039;d basically forgotten. I think the last time we played it was on a boat in Paris.&amp;quot;  What&amp;#039;s the best Keane song of all time? &amp;quot;Tom [Chaplin] always says the song &amp;#039;Perfect Symmetry&amp;#039; is his greatest bit of songwriting. I remember in the early days &amp;#039;This Is The Last Time&amp;#039; being one of those songs where everything changed for us. I love &amp;#039;Atlantic&amp;#039; as well from Under The Iron Sea. That for me remains one of my absolute favourite songs.&amp;quot;  Keane had success across the globe from very early on... &amp;quot;We worked it out the other day and we&amp;#039;ve played in something like 40 countries - most of them more than once! Touring across the planet has easily been the most enjoyable aspect of being in the band for me. &amp;quot;I especially remember a gig we played in Paraguay last year. People in those countries don&amp;#039;t tend to trust ticket promoters that a concert is actually happening until the act has arrived, so before we&amp;#039;d got there we&amp;#039;d sold about 500 tickets. We held a press conference and a couple of days later we were performing to 13,000 people! It was crazy.&amp;quot;  We had money on Tom replacing Danny on The Voice this year. Has he ever been asked? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never heard of anything like that! Those reality shows are such a strange world. I noticed Maroon 5 are having a resurgence and then someone told me it&amp;#039;s because Adam Levine is on The Voice. Is that really what it takes these days?  &amp;quot;I suppose there are so few places to perform on TV that you end up doing things that in the early days you felt were inappropriate. Tom&amp;#039;s an amazing singer though, so if it&amp;#039;s a show about singing, he&amp;#039;d be perfect for it. I don&amp;#039;t know many people with a voice as strong as his. Maybe he&amp;#039;s too good for it!&amp;quot;   There&amp;#039;s been some confusion about whether Keane are splitting after this Best Of. What&amp;#039;s going on? &amp;quot;Going forward, we don&amp;#039;t have any plans for the next thing. Tom&amp;#039;s been talking about doing a solo record for many years. I think he might do that next year. After that, I really don&amp;#039;t know what the future holds. It&amp;#039;s quite strange in that respect. We&amp;#039;re not planning any massive touring around this album. We&amp;#039;re doing a cinema streaming gig from Berlin that sounds fun, but apart from that there&amp;#039;s nothing massive in the diary.&amp;quot; Will you be keeping the door open though for the future? &amp;quot;Tim writes songs whether he likes it or not - it&amp;#039;s impossible to stop him. I&amp;#039;m sure he&amp;#039;ll carry on doing that and if there&amp;#039;s a point where we want to make another record then we&amp;#039;ll do it. At the moment, we don&amp;#039;t know what we&amp;#039;re going to do next.&amp;quot; Having no plans must feel strange after having ten years of them... &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve had ten years of being in this cycle of album and touring. We&amp;#039;ve never worked as hard as some of our contemporaries like The Killers, though. Their schedule when they release an album is absolutely brutal. It&amp;#039;s going to be nice to spend some time at home for a while without the pressure.&amp;quot;  The Best Of Keane is out now. Watch the music video for their latest single &amp;#039;Higher Than The Sun&amp;#039; below:       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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