Keane singer Tom Chaplin has been speaking to Radio 1 about his recent spell in The Priory, where he battled to overcome his drink and drug addictions.
Chaplin spoke to the radio station ahead of the band's show in Hull on Tuesday night. He described entering rehab as “walking to the edge of a cliff and looking into the abyss”, and continued: “you can either jump off or turn round and walk back. Thankfully for me it was the latter.”
In an amazing revelation, Chaplin commented: “Drugs and drink and all those things are something that are everywhere now.”
Oooh Eeem Geee? Chaplin said that he had to be aware of these temptations in the future. Good Chaplin, tea and crumpets for you, post-gig, from now on.
Seriously, though: drink and drugs are bad. Like, really. And don't go giving me that Bill Hicks spiel, 'cause he dead.
like most
people i laughed and was very cynical about Tom Chaplin entering rehab.
Obviously we all thought he was doing it to try and toughen up the image of Keane a little bit.
But the more I've thought about this, the more I think he should be cut a little slack. He's clearly been through it in the last year or two.
GIVE ME A K
GIVE ME AN A
GIVE ME AN R
GIVE ME AN M
GIVE ME AN A
WOSSAT SPELL?
..
HAAHAHAHA!
''Drugs and drink and all those things are something that are everywhere now."
cos... they... weren't before? idiot.
clearly he is a TWAT!
...
i like this, it makes him sound even more naive and rural than i had previously thought.
Hahaha
I hate Keane
but fair play to Chaplin for cleaning up his act. Gettting off drugs is hard and I'll respect anyone who manages it.
uh?
Why is he 'clearly a twat'?
yes
but I can respect him for one thing and dislike him for others
congratulations to him for getting off the drugs
but there are no two ways about it!
Hicks ain't dead!
He just squeegied his third eye real clean and transcended to a higher plane of consciousness. He's looking down on us all right now, laughing his ass off at the fact that Beelzebobo seems to be running the whole show now.
No, he's dead
deal with it.
I heard that
you weren't ghetto unless you thought Bill Hicks was alive and well in Japan living with Diana and Biggie.
yeah
he actually is dead.
Chaplin's Allegory
is flawed.
Discuss.
I thought that as well
Surely taking drugs in the first place would be the jump, and rehab would be the people helping you climb back up?
you know what he should have done?
just NOT taken them in the first place.
If anyone laughed at our misfortunes...
...we'd be less than chuffed. So we shouldn't do it ourselves.
You're already hovering your finger over the reply button to say it was self-imposed, right? Cool. Let's go to AA meetings and laugh at the non-famous people too then.
i think
people wouldn't expect this kind of behaviour from the front man of a band that doesn't contain any guitars.
yeah
what does he do his lines off when he is on stage with no guitar amps ?? off the keyboards maybe
but well done for kicking it the coke
i still think there music is boring
:o
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4371335474208326996
a bigger revelation than this story, anyway
Keane in Guitar coke smuggling shocker!
that surely is the only reason he would have to hold one of those
i demand
some sort of keane some kind of monster style rehab movie!
kudos to chaplin
for kicking the drugs and drink and all that. it's not going to make their music any good, but hey, it's less money for scum-fucker drug dealers.
he could just not be an idiot and get addicted
There's nothing ex
about you is there, cynic? Not the most helpful or insightful post. Addiction isn't really black and white is it?
I'd fucking love to see Keane proper off their mash on ecstacy pipes. Sadly I saw them accidently at V, and they seemed quite compus mentis, albeit a little shit.
If you get past...
.....the 'bedwetters' image, their music is very very good.
I'm into to quite a vaiety of music, from Zeppelin to Beatles to Pink Floyd to System of a Down to Beastie Boys to Libertines and so on and so on
And I really enjoy their music.......
Go on..........I know you're going to rip the shit out of me.......!!
he should...
JUMP!