COMING home to Leicester to watch local lads Kasabian, I’d forgotten that everyone who lives here somehow knows Serge Pizzorno. “His dad Richard was a scout for Leicester City ,” one fan tells me on the bus to the gig. “Serge was a great player but he’ll have a longer career in music than he would in football.
” 4 Serge Pizzorno moved like magic on stage, running and dancing from end to end Credit: Rex 4 But there was nothing normal about Serge when he kicked off their Summer Solstice show in Leicester Credit: Rex Standing in the packed Bar Dos Hermanos, which soon ran out of pint glasses thanks to the 35,000 fans who wanted to watch England win before the gig, a friend reminds me she too knows Serge and his family. “We’d see him taking his kids to swimming lessons,” she tells me. “Everyone loves him.
He is just a normal man.” But there was nothing normal about Serge when he kicked off their Summer Solstice show, the first since their huge concert a decade ago in Victoria Park. For a man who told me two years back that he harboured no desire to be the face of the band, he has masterfully evolved into a sensational frontman who, in my opinion , outshines his predecessor Tom Meighan with ease.
Flares were burning in the crowd from the off, with Serge kicking off the set with Call, a brilliant track from their latest album Happenings. And the lights continued to burn throughout bangers including Club Foot, Underdog and You’re In Love With A Psycho. Serge.
