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What do you get if you cross Kanye's haughty hit-making flow with Keane's melodic hit-making woe? Kean-ye. And it has as much potential as the Streets' team-up with Muse

Sean Michaels guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 December 2008 09.36 GMT Article history

Keane + Kanye = Kean-ye. Photograph: PR

Keane have declared their wish to record an EP with Kanye West, dubbed "Keane-ye". Which is all very funny until you realise they aren't joking.
The bombastic mopers – we mean Keane - met Kanye at a studio in Paris, where they both happened to be working. "We popped down to say hello because he's always written nice things on his blog about us," drummer Richard Hughes told BBC 6 Music. "It was just before his album came out, and he played us his record."

Since 808s & Heartbreak has a lot in common with Keane's output – it is, well, bombastically moping - the artists hit it off. Soon, we imagine, they were trading tour stories, gossiping about Chris Martin, and challenging each other to rounds of Wii bowling.
"Suddenly [Kanye] just stood up and it was like a classic moment you would imagine in a film," Hughes said. Keane had been playing him one of their songs, You Haven't Told Me Anything. "He stands up and goes, 'Grab me a mic', and someone runs off and gets him one and plugs it in. Then [Kanye] just went for it and it was very cool."
Though the band had "been thinking about asking him to have a crack at a remix", Kanye performed a fully-fledged rap, mingling his haughty hit-making flow with Keane's melodic hit-making woe. And before bidding the rapper adieu, Keane offered him another, unnamed song, just in case. "It's got a huge gap in it, which is for a guest vocalist and we were hoping Kanye might take a run at that as well," Hughes said.

It's a collaboration with at least as much potential as the Streets' team-up with Muse. "Maybe we'll do a little EP, call it 'Keane-ye' or something," Hughes said, oblivious to the world's cringes. "We'll ... try to take that idea and run with it."

A modest suggestion for Keane: Go with the "or something".