Right, it’s time to own up – I am a secret Keane fan. After telling my colleagues at The Argus that the only reason I was going to this gig was because my fiancee wanted to go, here’s the truth.

I’ve seen them twice before – once at the Royal Albert Hall and the second time at the Brighton Centre on their last tour. I’ve also got all their albums and the song Spiralling on the new album Perfect Symmetry is a great song.

And so to this Brighton Centre gig, referred to as the closest thing to a “homecoming” for the band originally from Battle, near Hastings.

What stood out straight away was the guitars. Having always been known as the band without guitars, here we had lead singer Tom Chaplin going at it with an electric and an acoustic, plus a fourth member of the band mainly playing bass.

It obviously gave the songs a different, slightly heavier sound, even if it was still keyboard and piano-led.

Throughout the two-and-a-quarter hour set the band played most, if not all, of their new album, plus all the favourites from their previous albums.

Particular favourites were Spiralling plus Somewhere Only We Know, Everybody’s Changing and Crystal Ball.

Chaplin was as energetic as ever, running around the stage, while keyboardist Tim Rice-Oxley did his thing in that Coldplay’s Chris Martin goes-mad-at-the-keyboard action type way. The crowd were loving the band, with plenty of singalongs, and probably the best compliment would be that most people appeared to forget it was a Tuesday night.

Keane finished the encore with Bedshaped, at which point the crowd headed for bed.

So, Keane with guitars – whatever next? I’m looking forward to the heavy metal album next time around.