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QTheMusic met up with singer Tom and bassist Chris from Kasabian ahead of their intimate Forum concert as part of the Q Awards with Russian Standard Vodka – The Gigs.
Seated in one of the venue’s unassuming backstage-room, the West Ryders found time for some hillarious comments on Ronnie Wood, Leicester and why the rockstar-myth is dead.

How are you feeling?
Tom: We’ve just had our blood taken actually. Just to see if we’re alive, see what’s going through our system. Ah, go on, let’s stop this blood talk. I feel a bit faint, do you feel faint?
Chris: I’m just buzzing really.

You played The Garage recently…
Tom: Ah, wow that was cool that innit. We try not to compare sizes of venues, a gig is a gig you know.
Tom, I noticed that you were having a pint in a nearby pub that time, with people constantly coming up to you.

Does it ever get awkward?
Tom: Big mistake that, I’m not gonna do that again…no its alright, it’s part of it. People are in love with the band aren’t they, so it’s cool.

Seeing how you’ve been labelled a ‘feet-firmly-on-ground-band-of-the-people’, do you worry that you might lose touch?
Chris: It’s easy to lose touch, but then again we live in Leicester, so when we’re going back there they take the piss out of our clothes or trousers or hair whatever, and that kinda brings us down the ground.
And they’ve started playing Fire when Leicester FC score a goal…
Tom: Yeah! That’s really cool, I like that. Although they were playing Chelsea Dagger the other day, and Leicester hate Chelsea. I didn’t get that.

Are you pleased with the reception West Ryder… got?
Chris: Yeah, it’s great. We’ve grown a lot and become more open and accepted by people.
Tom: Nice critics too, although I don’t give a fuck about what they think.

Have you spoken to Liam or Noel Gallagher lately?
Tom: No, not in a while…we’re really supportive of them, they’re both great.
Chris: The last time I heard from Noel was when he said “See you in nine years when the money runs out”.

Will the turn of the decade see Kasabian move in a different direction than before?
Chris: There’s always a new direction for Kasabian, the next album won’t sound like this one.
Tom: It would be cool to make a really raw, live album. And a double album would be cool, one day.
Chris: Only thing is, it won’t be a double album when we get around to doing it, just songs on a list that you scroll down.

Did you feel same about West Ryder… as your debut album?
Tom: We were very young when we did Kasabian you know, 21 or whatever, and it’s a very youthful, trying-to-grow-up-record. We just had a computer and did demos In Serge’s bedroom….you cant fucking win now, because everyone want fucking more. Links to interviews and bonus discs and stuff. I think the myths are dead with rockstars.

Are you trying to re-build the myth?
Chris: We have a bit of myth about of band, which we like, trying to keep things a bit secret. I mean, you don’t wanna see Ronnie Wood sleep, or take a shit. That didn’t happen in the 60’s.

So, no reality-show Kasabian then?
Tom: Nah, not until I’m old and do an Osbournes. Plus, we’ve got two videographers who have followed us since the beginning man, and we want to make a film a proper film documentary like from when we were kids and stuff. Some of the things on those tapes will blow your mind.

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Kasabian have announced an exclusive show at the O2 Dublin for this November 2009. The band will take to the stage on Friday November 27th for what promises to be one very special performance.

Tickets for Kasabian live at the O2 Dublin priced at only €33.60 will go on sale next Friday October 2nd 2009. Special guests soon to be announced.

For further information please visit www.ticketmaster.ie

Source//Kasabian.co.uk

Kasabian’s Tom Meighan has said he would “love” the band to record a track with their friend Noel Gallagher.

Speaking about the possibilities of hooking up with Gallagher, who quit Oasis in August, Meighan said he hoped the two parties would be able to head into the studio together once their schedules are both free.

“We’d love to do a track with him. Never say never. But at the moment he’s concentrating on his solo stuff and we’re busy as ever,” Meighan told the News Of The World.

The frontman also revealed that he expects Gallagher to join Kasabian on their UK arena tour, which kicks off in Newcastle on November 10.

“We’ve got our arena tour in November. Noel will be calling us up nearer the time for sure saying ‘Lads, I’m going to come perform with you on tour’. He’s a performing machine, and loves playing live so he jumps at the opportunity whenever he can join us.”

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Kasabian: “It Seems Like We’ve Finally Won!”

Kasabian say that their appearance on the Barclaycard Mercury Prize shortlist has finally given the band the establishment recognition they deserve… but that they’re not bothered if they win or not.

Speaking to Xfm at the awards launch party at London’s Hospital Club today (July 21), Tom Meighan told Xfm newshound Matt Dyson that he was pleased with the nod. “It’s nice for a band like us, because we didn’t exactly make a pop record. The reason we’ve been nominated for this is because the album is so obscure. Most of the acts that have been nominated are really obscure as well. It’s ing cool, man.

“It’s nice when it comes to you, because we’ve had lot of fights with media and the critics and stuff. But it seems like we’ve won. We try to invent new tastes in rock and roll music.”

Asked if he though that ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ would emulate last year’s winner, Elbow’s ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’, Tom said, “I’m not bothered about winning it, it’s nice to be nominated. It’ll probably go to someone really, really obscure, I’d be nice, but I don’t think about it like that.”

You can listen to Tom’s interview on xfm website

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Recent NME coverstars Kasabian are celebrating their second Number One album tonight as ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ slides straight in at the peak.

It knocks Paolo Nutini off the summit, where he had sat for a week, and follows the Leicester outfit’s second album ‘Empire’, which also went to the top in 2006.

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Kasabian have returned with a monster of a follow-up to ‘Empire’. Incredibly, it’s three whole years since we last heard from the chaps, but ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ is set to stomp around the nation’s arenas and stadia this summer.

Tom Meighan and Serge Pizzorno crammed themselves into the Xfm studio to take John Kennedy through the album track by track… Click on one of the links below to listen to them chat.

Click HERE to listen Tom & Serge talking about the album.

Leicester giants Kasabian have revealed that they have been inspired by the success of Oasis’ homecoming, and may attempt to replicate it.
Kasabian are set to accompany Oasis on their upcoming nationwide jaunt. One of the live events of the year, the support slots for the Manchester icons are being filled by some of the biggest bands in the country including The Enemy and Reverend & The Makers.

The Leicester band are no shrinking violets of their own. A massive homecoming show at the historic De Montford Hall saw them unleash tracks from their new album before thousands of fans, in one of the biggest shows the city has seen.
However it seems that Kasabian have now been inspired to set their sights higher. In an interview with BBC Newsbeat guitarist Serge Pizzorno reveals that Kasabian are desperate to play a show on the scale of Oasis’ Heaton Park gig.
“It’d be amazing to do it in Leicester one day,” claimed the guitarist. “That city would never have seen anything like it.”

Pizzorno also revealed that as a warm up for the show Liam Gallagher took Kasabian for a ride around the country – in a helicopter. “We had some dinner by a lake – a good chat, a good catch up, it was great,” he confirmed.
“Seeing England from a helicopter is kind of strange as well, you get a real of sense of where you’re from and the nation.”

Of course, the Heaton Park dates have not been without mishap. The Enemy were forced to pull out of a support slot on June 5th due to singer Tom Clarke suffering from the affects of chronic food poisoning.
“I was becoming intimately acquainted with my bathroom floor,” admits lead singer Tom Clarke.
“It gave a night on the tiles a whole different meaning.”

Kasabian’s new single ‘Fire’ entered the charts at number three this weekend, while the band recently released their ambitious new concept album ‘West Rider Pauper Asylum’.

Source //Clash Music

Muzu.tv is  giving five lucky Kasabian fans (plus one guest each) the chance to attend the EXCLUSIVE preview party in Dublin for the brand new album ‘The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ out in Ireland on Friday 5th June.

For your chance to win PLUS grab one of the first copies of the album in Europe PLUS the back catalogue PLUS drinks and a few nibbles, just head to www.muzu.tv/kasabian for entry details.

Hundreds of lucky Kasabian fans who managed to get tickets for the band’s sold-out home-town shows descended on De Montfort Hall last night for the first night of a “three-day party” in Leicester.
The local heroes are playing three gigs in the city to kick off their 20-date UK headline tour.

For loyal fans, it is a welcome return for the band – Tom Meighan, Serge Pizzorno, Chris Edwards and Ian Matthews – whose last Leicester gig was a secret show at Athena almost two years ago.
Around 6,000 people will get to see Kasabian at the gigs, which are promoting their upcoming third album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

Fans last night said they were one of the best acts about.
Claire Gray, 22, from Hinckley, who went to the gig with Arron Smith, 33, said: “It is so good because it is their homecoming gig. I have seen them lots of times before, in Amsterdam and at the V-Festival. Their music is top notch.”
Arron added: They’re one of my favourite bands. Their music is so cool, it’s just my type of music. They’re a top band.”

Giovanni Corbo, 28, from Knighton, and friend James Gray, 28, from Whitwick, said: “I have followed them from when the first album came out.
“We’ve been to lots of festivals but never managed to catch them, so it is great to come and see them play at home.”
Support act and close friend of Kasabian Jersey Budd said prior to going on stage: “It is an honour and a privilege to be asked to play with the guys at De Montfort Hall”.
Singer Tom told the Mercury: “To start off the tour in Leicester is amazing.”
Kasabian are also due to play at De Montfort Hall tonight and tomorrow.

Source//This is Leicestershire