The chat:
Kasabian are the best thing to happen to Leicester since Walkers crisps were endorsed by Gary Lineker. We’re not sure why the dark prince of football punditry eating loads of salty snacks is good for Leicester but hell, it sounds good. Anyway, the heavily-bearded five-piece’s new one is called West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum. It follows 2004's self-titled debut and 2007’s pounding Empire, and makes its mark with Serge Pizzorno’s familiar heavily distorted riffing and vaguely anthemic rock outs. It’s what turned them into Britain’s most exciting ‘band of the people’.
Call Kasabian the new (enter name of successful, working class, long-haired northern British band here) if you like, because we’re not bloody going to. Because we’ll get accused of being lazy journalists and nothing could be further from the truth. We work all day. All we know is that lead singer Tom Meighan currently has better hair than he’s ever had. And now looks like an elegant ghost.
The hits:
But enough chat. Talk is cheap. We know you just want the hits and the info. Look up to watch Fire, the first single off West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Or look down to watch, firstly, the single Vlad The Impaler:
And secondly, an interview with the scruffy little buggers:
When:
June 8