Keane Think They're Pink Floyd

04/03/09 12:00pm

Keane have declared themselves "the new Pink Floyd" after they played a show at London, England's Abbey Road Studios that was broadcast online in 3D on Thursday night.

The British band claim the performance was the first of its kind, and it has singer Tom Chaplin feeling pretty cocky.

"I like getting in people's faces, so doing it in 3D suits what we do," he told the U.K.'s Daily Star tabloid. "We're the new Pink Floyd!"

The technology offered both new opportunities and presented new problems for Keane drummer Richard Hughes.

"Somebody suggested I throw a drumstick at the camera, but the problem with that is while it won't hit anyone at home, it will hit the cameraman, so I had to be a bit careful," he told the paper.

You can watch the performance on Keane's website. You can also buy a Keane 3D poster and special glasses (which were originally given away with seven-inch vinyl copies of "Better Than This") to view it with from the site. The group have also provided a template on the site for fans to make their own 3D glasses.

Keane released the Keane Curate A Night For War Child DVD and their third album, Perfect Symmetry, last fall.

The group will support those releases with these dates:

April 13 Fremantle, Australia @ Metro
April 16 Melbourne, Australia @ Palace Theatre
April 17 Sydney, Australia @ Metro
April 20 Brisbane, Australia @ The Tivoli
April 23 Osaka, Japan @ Big Cat
April 24 Tokyo, Japan @ Studio Coast
May 2 Murcia, Spain @ SOS 4.8 Festival
May 8 Oakland, CA @ The Fox Theatre
May 9 Los Angeles, CA @ The Hollywood Palladium
May 10 Anaheim, CA @ Grove Of Anaheim
May 12 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kingsbury Hall
May 13 Denver, CO @ The Ogden Theater
May 15 Minneapolis, MN @ Myth
May 16 Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
May 19 Washington, DC @ Constitution Hall
May 20 Philadelphia, PA @ Tower Theatre
May 21 Boston, MA @ Bank Of America Pavilion
May 23 Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
May 24 Cleveland, OH @ Tower City Amphitheater
May 26 Montclair, NJ @ Wellmont Theatre
May 27 New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
May 30 London, England @ O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
May 31 Landgraaf, Netherlands @ Pinkpop Festival
June 20 Werchter, Belgium @ TW Classic Festival
July 10 Eadestown, Ireland @ Punchestown Racecourse (Oxegen Festival)
July 12 Balado, Scotland @ T In The Park Festival
Aug. 22 Staffordshire, England @ Weston Park (V Festival)
Aug. 23 Chelmsford, England @ Hylands Park (V Festival)