GLOBAL super-group Coldplay has given its backing to a young Dover district band.

The mega-star quartet, which has scooped six Brits, four MTV awards and seven Grammys since 1998, plugged Audioshock – made up of four Dover district lads – with a posting on Facebook.

Next to a YouTube link of Audioshock playing their track Faceless is a message from Coldplay saying: "Great new band... keep your eyes on these guys."

Max Minus, 20, Audioshock's synth and keyboard player from Lydden, currently at the University of Leicester studying ancient history and archaeology, said: "The news that Coldplay had endorsed us was completely surreal. We were having visits on our page from hundreds of people across the world, receiving messages from management companies in minutes. It was just crazy."

The other members of the electro/rock band are 19-year-old twins Billy Banyard, bass player and vocalist, and Charlie, the drummer, from Sandwich, and 20-year-old singer and guitarist Jack Kinden, from Deal. The band formed in 2005 when Jack and twins Charlie and Billy used to play in Jack's shed. In 2009, they were joined by Max and started to explore new sounds.

The four released their first EP, Creatures Crypts & Politics, in 2010. The track Faceless was recorded last year at the Hidden Track Studios.

Despite now being in different parts of the country – Billy is at Canterbury College, Charlie is at University of Portsmouth studying politics and international relations, and Jack is in the district working for the family plumbing business – the band still manage to rehearse.

Former Dover Grammar School for Boys pupil Max said: "We practise once or twice a week in a rehearsal studios in Sandwich or we meet up in London for rehearsals when people are at uni.

"We write our own material, each of us bringing in our own influences from bands such as Coldplay, The Killers, Muse and Enter Shikari."

As well as the thumbs-up from Coldplay, Audio-shock have been getting national coverage. This week, Faceless is Radio One's song of the week. It has been played on shows hosted by DJs including Fearne Cotton and Scott Mills and today (Thursday) it will be played on the Greg James show.

On Saturday the lads will be interviewed by Huw Stephens and on Sunday the single will receive airplay by Edith Bowman, Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac.

Max said: "We are really looking forward to it. We are over the moon we are on the Radio One play-list.Its all very exciting."

Audioshock plan to release a three-track EP this year and hope to record a debut album.

Get a free download of Faceless at www. face book.com/bandaudioshock