The band (Tom Chaplin, Richard Hughes, Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin) are presently on their ‘Hopes and Fears 20’ tour to mark twenty years because the launch of their debut album, which spent 5 weeks on the high of the UK albums chart.
They took to the stage for his or her hour-long set at 4pm, the place they had been met by the “unimaginable sight” of throngs of individuals within the Pyramid area.
“My legs really feel like jelly,” mentioned Chaplin.
“Thanks a lot everybody who’s turned out to see us.
“We’d like your assist. All that we ask is that you just clap your arms for us, that you just do some dancing and you place your arm round somebody that you just love and sing your hearts out.”
Rice-Oxley and Chaplin are interviewed earlier than their Pyramid Stage look. (Picture: Tom Leese/PA)
They opened their set with Bend and Break and rattled by loads of different songs from Hopes and Fears, together with crowd favourites All people’s Altering and Someplace Solely We Know.
In addition they introduced a few of their largest hits from Beneath The Iron Sea (2006) and Strangeland (2012).
However recognising the impression of Hopes and Fears – which the band first performed on Glastonbury’s Different Stage in 2004 – was on the forefront of the efficiency.
Chaplin advised the gang: “It was simply wonderful how a lot the document meant to individuals, and it modified our lives, and it’s pretty to be again right here to rejoice it 20 years later.”
He additionally discovered time to channel his “internal Freddie Mercury” whereas getting the sector geed up for You Are Younger in the course of the “overwhelming” expertise.
Earlier than ending the set with What Do I Know, the lead vocalist mentioned: “I’m going to want to put down in a darkish room for a bit!
“When our document got here out 20 years in the past, we didn’t actually savour it, we didn’t actually take it in. To have the ability to come again immediately and soak it in is the stuff of desires.”
In the event you missed Keane at Glastonbury Pageant, you’ll be able to watch them on the Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza with Hothouse Flowers and the Shepton Mallet Large Band on August 3.