“PLAYING Glastonbury and our Leicester show coming up this weekend, the stars are aligned,” says Kasabian frontman Serge Pizzorno. “It’s been ten years since we last played Glastonbury — that’s a long time to wait, and playing the Woodsies stage in the secret slot is iconic. “We did pretty well to keep it a secret, as every now and then someone would say, ‘Are you doing Glasto?’ and I’d say, ‘Nah not this year’, so it was murder, but we managed to do it.
” Anyone who witnessed the Leicester band at Worthy Farm or on the TV could see it was a spectacular set in the rammed-to-the-rafters tent playing banger after banger, old and new. Chatting over drinks in a London hotel bar, the singer is recalling high points from the sensational set. He says: “I think Call, the first single off our new album, was massive.
It was the first time we’d played it in England , and it just went off. Then the last four songs of the set, I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. “So if you’re coming to Leicester this weekend or to another one of our shows, get ready to get stuck in.
I want chaos.” Kasabian’s live shows have hit another level since 2020 when Pizzorno took over from disgraced original frontman Tom Meighan , who was fired for assaulting his now-wife Vikki Ager. The new frontman says: “Our show has got wilder.
I wrote every one of these songs. I know every single word — they are in my veins, so it means more that I’m singing them. “More .