KEANE - KEANE SICK OF COLDPLAY COMPARISON

British rockers KEANE find the continuous comparison to COLDPLAY "grating". The SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW group are fed up with the likeness and deny being musically directed by the CHRIS MARTIN-fronted band. Singer TOM CHAPLIN says, "Even though we probably share a lot of influences, Coldplay have never been a real direct influence on us." "We find it grating. But I suppose they have been an inspiration - at the beginning people called them 'Sissy bed-wetters' and now they're rock gods."