Are any of you superstitious? Before going on stage, do you perform any rituals?
Tim: Not really. I try not to think about it too much actually, because I don't like to be waiting around for a gig. I'd rather be doing interviews or watching TV or reading a book - otherwise I'd just sit there getting nervous. But I'd much rather be relaxed and before I go on stage I always make sure I warm up stretching my muscles like a footballer, because it's a very physical thing playing music. If you're gonna rock out and move around a lot you have to make sure you're not going to injure yourself. I move my head a lot when I'm playing and if I haven't warmed up I get a really like a frozen sort of neck after the gig …Other than that not really. I think we like to just relax and have fun. You have to not take it too seriously, otherwise it becomes too scary. You have to forget about the fact that you're going to play to thousands of people and just remember it's the three of us playing music and having fun.
Tom: Not especially, but we did an interview the other day in Basel in Switzerland, and I was talking about how for a long time we used to think we were cursed as a band, just when you're not getting anywhere and it's something you love so much, and things go wrong, it can be quite disheartening and demoralising. So we used to think there was a curse on Keane, a "Kurse" with a Capital K we called that thing. So I said to this interviewer "But nowadays, we feel the curse has been lifted" (Laughs) which is a very stupid thing to say, because it turned out that night we were playing at the side of a truck, and it hadn't rained in Switzerland for three weeks, and then it started pouring with rain, and the promoters weren't prepared for it to rain, so the lights were steaming and smelling like they were burning, and the stage was really slippery, and you know, it's just one of those things when we thought the curse was back (laughs). I think the main thing is not to tempt fate now, so I shall remember that in the future.
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