Keane frontman Tom Chaplin has revealed he took inspiration from Alice Cooper to help him beat his drink and drug addictions, saying he took up Golf after he checked into The Priory in 2006. “I am actually quite obsessed with it,” he told The Sun. “When Alice Cooper needed to give up booze he said ‘What the hell am I going to do if I can’t drink?’, so he started playing golf and became completely obsessed with it – and that’s kind of the same as what happened to me. Alice’s whole tour schedule is built around playing golf. I don’t know if the same thing is going to happen for Keane, but it certainly gives me some relief.”
Keane are set to release a new EP, ‘Night Train‘, in May. The tracks were recorded on the band’s 2008 World Tour in support of their last studio album ‘Perfect Symmetry‘. The EP will hit the shelves on May 10th.
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