Kasabian Play First Scottish Tour Date
Kings of British rock Kasabian stormed Aberdeen last night in the first Scottish date of their national tour.
The Leicester band received a rapturous reception from a packed Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
After declaring themselves the heirs to Oasis’s Brit-rock throne after that band’s split in August, the group had a lot to live up to but during a two-hour set last night the crowd certainly seemed to back that claim.
True to their promise to give fans a bit of a show, the atmosphere was set with dramatic lighting and stage graphics. The four-piece of lead singer Tom Meighan, guitarist and vocalist Sergio Pizzorno, bassist Chris Edwards and drummer Ian Matthews stormed through the hits from latest album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, including Underdog, Where Did All the Love Go and Fire. The set was peppered with crowd pleasers from debut album Kasabian and 2006’s Empire, with Club Foot, Processed Beats and Shoot the Runner all getting the crowd going.
The group finished on a high with first album favourite LSF, as a rain of confetti showered down on fans.
warned that not enough major rock ‘n’ roll bands are hailing from the UK.
Serge Pizzorno told Click Liverpool that the recent split of Oasis has left a considerable void in the British rock scene.
“There aren’t many proper rock ‘n’ roll bands left,” he lamented.
“Can you name one?”
Pizzorno struggled to list any more than his own band and Sheffield rockers Arctic Monkeys.
He added that he has “no interest whatsoever” in ITV1’s hit show The X Factor, saying it goes over his head.
“It’s for kids,” Pizzorno commented.
