"Every year, pour a few pints of beer over it and empty a couple of ashtrays onto the strings. Finally, throw it out the back of the tour bus": Keane’s Tim Rice-Oxley on keeping the "character" of his Yamaha CP-70 and the ups and downs of being in a band

Tim Rice-Oxley.

“It was like being The Beatles... on a much smaller scale.”

Keane’s musical linchpin and main songwriter Tim Rice-Oxley is recounting last month’s arrival at Lima Airport in Peru as part of the band’s “wild” South American tour.