In 1995, he asked his friend Tim Rice-Oxley to form a band to play covers from U2, Oasis and The Beatles.
Scott left in July 2001, after the release of the single "Wolf at the Door", apparently due to musical differences with Rice-Oxley, the other main songwriter of the band at the time.
[1] Keane posted a message on their official page on 14 November 2001 stating: "One sad piece of news for us is that in July our guitarist Dom decided to leave the band and return to his studies at LSE.
Dom's departure does give us scope to develop our sound in new directions, and the new recordings reflect the love of more electronic and ambient music that inspired us to start writing songs in the first place.
The sound is still unmistakably Keane – epic and dreamlike – but we're confident we've captured a new level of energy and atmosphere on tape.".