the band announced that they had split up in september 2001, although they played one final concert in october that year as part of the bbc radio 2 "live in cardiff" festival. evans stated in 2003 "it stopped being fun and we found we had to promote things and that's when things started getting quite tense." evans, rowlands, and glyn re-remerged in 2002 as the keys, after asking fans to choose a name for the new band, and were described as "duane eddy jamming with the jesus and mary chain". the band released a self-titled debut album in 2003, two eps in 2009 and their second album as the keys, "fire inside", in 2010. a third album, "bitten by wolves", was released in 2011. the band, now also known simply as keys, is releasing a new album, "ring the changes", in late 2013.