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| Kasabian live at Rock City - Photo by Dom Henry |
With a new album recently released and a main stage slot at Glastonbury on Sunday, Kasabian are riding high and were well in the mood to warm up. Not that they needed much help with the whole warm thing; Rock City was roasting and by the end of the night you’d have been lucky to find a dry shirt in the venue.
Starting in with a track from the new album, Underdog, it was a strong start smoothly followed up by Shoot the Runner, a song with an irritatingly catch chorus. That is in fact what Kasabian do best, catchy songs with enough las, ahhhs, ooohs and ooompfs that it seems almost rude not to chant along.
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| The sell out crowd - Photo by Dom Henry |
Lead singer, Tom Meighan, spent the night strutted around the stage in jeans so tight they’d make Jordan blush and with a haircut that, unfortunately, just reminded me of Dave Hill from Slade. Still, this was all balanced out by Sergio Pizzorno’s effortless cool on guitars.
Kasabian do great British indie rock without following the Brit Rock formula of the nineties. An odd band in that they write a lot of anthemic songs which can be chanted along to football style, but switch to swirling, psychedelic songs, like Thick as Thieves, with a graceful ease. Playing a good pick n’ mix from all three albums; crowd favourites being Vlad the Impaler, Club Foot, Shoot the Runner and Processed Beats.
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| Photos by Dom Henry |
Their encore, bizarrely, included a cover of Candi Stanton’s You’ve Got the Love - something I wouldn’t have ever expected but they pulled it off with aplomb. This rolled straight into the final song of the night, L.S.F, with its electronic melody, driving rhythms and incessant beat it was a perfect end to the set. The crowd needed no encouragement when the mike was waved at them, chanting along to the refrain at an incredible volume which no doubt was heard on the street.
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| Photo by Dom Henry |
Kasabian are a live act to be reckoned with: If the crowd surfing (safety advice: avoid kicking people in the head as you’re likely to be dropped by the crowd or the bouncer) was a measure of the crowd’s enjoyment levels then Kasabian played a blinder. Ooompf.
Photos by Dom Henry (c)
Kasabian and The Hours played at Rock City on Tuesday June 24 2009.
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