Keane drummer Richard Hughes has confirmed that the band are working on material with US rapper Kanye West.

The two acts started work on the collaboration when they met last month at a recording studio in Paris.

At the time, keyboardist Tim Rice-Oxley revealed how West had re-worked the lead single from Keane's latest album, 'Perfect Symmetry', during the meeting.

But in an interview with BBC 6Music Hughes said they hoped the collaboration could lead to a more official release.

“I think Tim [Rice-Oxley] left another song with him that he wrote a little while back,” the drummer said. “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.

“I don’t know, maybe we’ll do a little EP, call it Keane-ye or something.”

When asked about their meeting with the rapper, Hughes replied: “We’d been thinking about asking him to have a crack at a remix and actually he ended up rapping over a little bit of 'You Haven’t Told Me Anything'.”

He added: “I don’t know how we’re going get it to see the light of day. We’ll maybe try to take that idea and run with it. It would be a shame to put it out without making the most of it.”

(by Jason Gregory)