Apr 16, 2009 • 1 min read

Posh boys Keane off to work with US celebs

Keane frontman Tom Chaplin says the band are working with celebrities in the US, where he says they are judged on their music rather than their image.

Keane are sick of hanging around in the UK being called posh boys, and much prefer it in the US where loads of celebrities want to work with them.

Frontman Tom Chaplin told The Daily Star: "It's amazing how far and wide our music has reached in terms of other artists, especially in America. There's less stigma attached to us, like all of the things we have been lumbered with in Britain. Being posh, etc etc - annoying things that have nothing to do with how we sound. Over there they make judgments solely on the music so we have these cool people and we should have some exciting collaborations coming soon".

To be fair, I don't think we've ever called them posh boys. We always judge them solely on their music, which we think is mostly tedious. However, we did like a few tracks on their latest album, 'Perfect Symmetry'. That's balanced criticism there, if you were wondering.

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