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Keane: University of London Union, London

Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 14 March 2004

WHEN BBC NEWS Online ran their "Sound Of 2004" survey of music biz insiders at the turn of the year, the winners – one place ahead of Franz Ferdinand – were a previously unknown trio from historic Battle in Sussex, whose USP was being a rock band without guitars.

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