Kasabian: Kasabian Net Premier League deal

A new footie deal KASABIAN have landed which will make them Britain's biggest musical export.
In the world it will soon be impossible to avoid them anywhere after Barclays Premier League paid a fortune to use their massive track Fire in the title sequences whenever matches are shown abroad.
Next three years broadcasters in around 200 countries will legally have to use the song when they show live games.
Kasabian's record label, Sony, the band's third album are hoping it will give, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, a huge new boost all around the globe.
Considering live matches get up to one billion viewers that shouldn't be a problem.
The Leicester lads are now the first port of call when it comes to football and music.
Singer TOM MEIGHAN launched Umbro's England World Cup kit in Paris before the tournament. And their music is always used on TV, especially Match Of The Day and Sky Sports.
Paul Molnar from the Premier League said: "If we had just wanted a track, there are thousands of those that they could have used.
"But Kasabian are seen as a football band and that makes the use of the track so much stronger." Oosh.

Kasabian: Kasabian star's charity bike ride

Signed up to Kasabian star Chris Edwards has to take part in a gruelling charity bicycle ride to raise money for children with cancer.

The bass player and his brother, Jay, will cycle nearly 900 miles from the southern tip of Cornwall known as Land's End to the northern village of John O' Groats in Scotland.
On 4 September the group will set off and spend 14 days on the road before reaching their destination.
They hope to raise £5,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust, according to The Sun.

Kasabian set for heroes' night out in Spain

Kasabian are set for the royal treatment Andres Iniesta plans to give the rockers a night to remember as thanks for helping Spain win the World Cup. Spaniards were celebrating on Sunday after their national team defeated the Netherlands 1-0 in the tournament and now 26 year old ace Iniesta wants to pay due credit to Kasabian, whose music helped the players get "pumped" before every match.
Iniesta tells The Sun, "I am thanking everybody who helped us win the World Cup. Kasabian were a big inspiration in the dressing room. Their Club Foot has been our choice of song before we run out for about a year now. I want to say a big thank you to them, I want to offer them something.
"I want to invite them as my guests to come and watch the world's greatest football match between Barcelona and Real Madrid at the Camp Nou.
"I will even sort it for them to come and have a kickaround on the pitch the day before.
"We can go out and have a mad night in Barcelona and celebrate the World Cup win properly. They haven't got to worry about hotels, I am in the mood for sharing.
"They can come and stay at my house so I can show them my World Cup medal and we can have a couple of beers round my pool. Greatest band in the world, on behalf of Spain, I want to say thank you. Not just thank you, we love you!"
The band's Serge Pizzorno has already vowed to perform at the Spainish football team's victory party after learning the players are huge fans of their music.

Kasabian: Kasabian hope for Glastonbury gig

Kasabian have revealed that they hope to play the Glastonbury festival next year. The band, 'Song of the Year' and 'Best Album' who currently won at the Mojo Awards, missed out on this year's lineup but are keen to perform next year. Bang Showbiz quotes singer Tom Meighan as saying: "Last year was amazing so hopefully we'll be about next year and play it."I remember the sun going down and I had straw jacket on and long hair blowing everywhere all these flags - it was wonderful."Of their next album, he said: "We've got a record coming. We're going to start recording it in the winter, in October. I can't give you any names - I can't say anything."

At '80s-influenced Mojos Kasabian scoop best song

Kasabian leicester rockers scooped song of the year with "Fire" at the Mojo music awards on Thursday on a night when the influence of 1980s pop was an overriding theme.
London's Florence and the Machine came away empty handed, however, despite leading the nominations with four. The awards, arranged by Mojo magazine and partly decided by readers voting online, are officially called the Mojo Honours List.
In the contemporary categories, Richard Hawley picked up the best album prize for "Truelove's Gutter," The Low Anthem were voted breakthrough act of the year and Texan band Midlake won best live act.
Psychedelic experimentalists Amorphous Androgynous scooped the best compilation with "A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Volume 2 - Pagan Love Vibrations Compiled And Mixed By The Amorphous Androgynous."
In the non-contemporary categories, The Stone Roses' eponymous 1989 record was named classic album, while 1980s Liverpool act The Teardrop Explodes received the Mojo Inspiration award. Marc Almond, best known for his work with Soft Cell in the 1980s, won the Mojo Hero award.
"The 1980s are almost the new 1960s," said Phil Alexander, Mojo magazine's editor-in-chief. "You can hear the influence of that decade everywhere."
Following is a list of selected winners:
- Best album: Richard Hawley/Truelove's Gutter
- Song of the year: Kasabian/Fire
- Best live act: Midlake
- Compilation of the year: Amorphous Androgynous
- Breakthrough act: The Low Anthem
- Vision award: Oil City Confidential
- Maverick award: Hawkwind
- Classic album: Stone Roses
- Catalog release of the year: The Beatles
- Hero award: Marc Almond
- Inspiration award: Teardrop Explodes
- Lifetime achievement award: Jean-Michel Jarre
- Icon award: Jimmy Page

Kasabian : Florence and The Machine go head to head with Kasabian

FANTASTIC FLORENCE WELCH has scored four nominations for this year's MOJO awards.
The singer's band Florence & The Machine go head to head with Kasabian for Best Live Act, Song Of The Year and Best Album.
They are also up for Best Breakthrough Act.
Sheffield-based rockers Arctic Monkeys and RICHARD HAWLEY are each up for two gongs at the London bash.
Paul Weller , RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and MUMFORD & SONS are also in the running for honours.

Kasabian: V Festival headline slot

The band have been announced as headlining this year's V Festival alongside Kings of
Leon. The festival will be held on 21st and 22nd August at Hylands Park, Chelmsford and Weston Park, Staffordshire.

Here is a brief interview with the band discussing their headline slot.

KASABIAN INTERVIEW: Talk in football

Kasabian TOP Brit band have spoken exclusively to the News of the World about their love of Leicester City, football and touring with Oasis.
Tom Meighan and Chris Edwards took time out ahead of their upcoming tour to discuss a number of topics including how football has influenced their music and the joys of following Leicester in The Championship.
They would love to play a gig at The Walkers Stadium and answer the burning question would they rather be a rock star or a Premier League footballer?
"The real glory and the real football," is at Championship level, according to Tom, even though he is delighted with the news of the possible signing of Edgar Davids and feels the Foxes are well capable of getting promotion.
The boys also discuss their feelings for other sports and the prowess of the band members at football.

Won a Q Awards to Kasabian, U2 and Lily Allen

U2, Kasabian, Lily Allen and Lady GaGa, the results of the QAwards have been released and they have all lifted gongs.
The Best Track award Lily Allen won for her song The Fear, while U2’s album The Unforgettable Fire took the Classic Album prize.
Lady GaGa won a gong for Best Video, for her song Just Dance, while R&B star The Breakthrough Artist of 2009 Mr Hudson was named.
Kasabian were another band to be victorious, lifting the Best Album accolade for their West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum track.
Edwyn Collins, Marianne Faithfull and The Specials were others to be recognised at this year’s Q Awards, which took place today, October 26, in London.
The full list of winners is as follows. Best New Act was won by White Lies; Breakthrough Artist was lifted by Mr Hudson; Best Track was won by Lily Allen for her song The Fear; Best Video went to Lady Gaga for Just Dance; Best Live Act was won by Artic Monkeys; Best Album was won by Kasabian for West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum; and Best Act In The World Today was lifted by Muse.
The Classic Song award went to Frankie Goes To Hollywood for Relax; the Q Classic Album was won by U2 for The Unforgettable Fire; Innovation In Sound was won by Sonic Youth; the Classic Songwriter award was won by Yusuf Islam; The Q Idol award was lifted by Spandau Ballet; the Outstanding Contribution To Music was won by Robert Plant; The Q Inspiration Award was won by The Specials; The Q Icon accolade was won by Marianne Faithfull and the Q Legend award was picked up by Edwyn Collins.
Comedian Al Murray, who dressed as his Pub Landlord character, presented the awards, and made the comment that 2009 was a poor year for music because of the “sad demise of Oasis".

over US success, Kasabian not fussed

Kasabian's Tom Meighan has said he is not fussed about breaking America because he can't be bothered to tour there.
Tom told #5 magazine: "I'm not a**ed about it mate, the record (West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum) went to No 98 on the Billboard which is s**t, sold about 10,000.
"To break America you have to tour the motherf****r, and that takes a lot of time, it's massive..."
Tom added: "No one butthe breaking America Coldplay and U2. It might happen, but we're certainly not going to different what we do. We're so dangerous for them, and we're not going to become non confrontational."
The Shoot The Runner rocker also said Kasabian couldn't fill the void left by Oasis' split as the two bands are too change.
He said: "Well everyone keeps tipping us to fill the void, but you can't fill that void. Oasis are a big, anthemic sing along band, while we're more of a dance along band, we're completely different. If you're gonna call them The Beatles, then we're the Stones, you know what I mean?"

Add an extra date to UK tour, Kasabian

Mercury Award nominees add one more date to their November tour.

UK arena tour to Kasabian are set to cap aff an unblievable year, and have this week added one extra date to next month’s jolly around the country a closing gig in Bournemouth.
This summer has seen the four piece from Leicester play to over a million fans this summer, featuring a 20 date sold out tour, 9 massive stadium dates with Oasis and a Glastonbury show as special guests to Bruce Springsteen.
Next month’s tour dates are as follows, with tickets to all shows priced at £25.00 plus fees.
Tue 10th November – NEWCASTLE, Metro Radio Arena
Wed 11th November – ABERDEEN, AECC [Sold Out]
Thu 12th November – GLASGOW, SECC [Sold Out]
Sat 14th November – LONDON, Wembley Arena [Sold Out]
Sun 15th November – LONDON, Wembley Arena
Mon 16th November – LIVERPOOL, Echo Arena
Wed 18th November – NOTTINGHAM, Trent FM Arena
Thu 19th November – BIRMINGHAM, NIA
Fri 20th November – MANCHESTER, MEN
Sun 22nd November – CARDIFF, International Arena [Sold Out]
Mon 23rd November – SHEFFIELD, Arena
Newly added date
Wed 25th November – BOURNEMOUTH, BIC

Bournemouth date added Kasabian Expand UK Arena

Kasabian have confirmed Leicester indie giants details of an extra date on their forthcoming UK arena tour.
With Oasis out of action, Kasabian are preparing to step into their role as the UK's most raucous group.
Manchester band of the long time friend, Kasabian Noel Gallagher invited currently to join them on their forthcoming tour. Whether or not the Oasis man accepts, the new dates feature some of the biggest headline shows in their career.
Date with a opening is Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena Kasabian are set to travel across the country, playing two nights in Wembley Arena. Relishing their status as one of the UK's biggest acts, they group have now added an extra tour date.
Kasabian will now finish their UK tour on November 25th in Bournemouth's BIC venue. Show tickets will go on sale on Wednesday (October 7th).
One of the biggest years the new tour complete in the career of Kasabian. The band released their latest album 'West Ryder Pauper Asylum' to widespread acclaim and supported Oasis on an enormous UK tour.
Growing used to playing enormous arenas Kasabian also performed a handful of festival dates, with the band entertaining thousands of fans throughout the summer.
Kasabian are set to play the following shows:
November

10 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena11 Aberdeen AECC12 Glasgow SECC14 London Wembley Arena15 London Wembley Arena18 Nottingham Trent FM Arena19 Birmingham NIA20 Manchester MEN22 Cardiff International Arena23 Sheffield Arena25 Bournemouth BIC

Liam Gallagher Buzzing About Saving The Honeybees

Now that his brother has quit Oasis and kasabian is off possibly working with and likely lining up all sorts of cool, non Oasis stuff, Liam Gallagher has tapped into his softer side by throwing his support to the campaign to save Britain’s honeybees, which are slowly dying out.
The singer had become more aware of the bees dire condition after the use of honey helped him cure a throat virus that forced Oasis to pull out of the V Festival in August. It’s now a particular cause for Gallagher who is also lending his support to the new film The Vanishing of the Bees, set for release in the UK next week.
The Brit rocker even teamed up with a man wearing a giant bee outfit to promote the film this week.
Said Gallagher: “I like honey. If it weren’t for honey, I’d have a rough voice.”
If you weren’t aware, the bees are responsible for pollinating around 1/3 of the UK’s food; a further drop in the bee population could be bad news for the country’s agriculture industry. The cause remains unclear for the falling honeybee numbers, but scientists are focusing on increased use of pesticides and climate change as possible factors.

Gallagher to join Kasabian on tour?

Noel Gallagher – who quit Oasis last month after a furious row with brother, and the pair’s frontman, Liam will appear with Kasabian on their forthcoming UK tour.Frontman Tom Meighan said: “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 chance whenever he can join us.”Tom also revealed the band may also record a track with Noel in the future.He said: “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.”Kasabian supported Oasis on their current UK tour before the ‘Wonderwall’ rockers cancelled a number of gigs after rending in August. However, Tom admits he didn’t see any signs they were going to split.He said: “Oasis were at the pinnacle of the music world for 16 years and despite touring with them this year, we didn’t see any signs that they were falling apart.”

Arctic Monkeys lead Q award lists, Oasis also star

LONDON (Reuters Life!) Sheffield band the Arctic Monkeys lead this year's Q Awards with four nominations, while Oasis, who currently announced their split, are up for two prizes.
Among other artists with multiple nominations for the music publication's annual awards were U2, Florence & The Machine, The Prodigy, Kasabian and Dizzee Rascal. The prizes are handed out on October 26.
Arctic Monkeys, who have just released their third album, appear on the shortlist for best track ("Crying Lightning"), best live act, best album ("Humbug") and best act in the world.
Manchester's Oasis have been nominated for best live act and best act in the world, despite songwriter and guitarist Noel Gallagher announcing last month that he had quit the band due to a bust up with his brother and frontman Liam.
"The nominations are compiled from votes cast in their thousands by Q's readers, listeners, viewers and online users, so they reflect the choice of the nation's music fans," said Q Magazine editor-in-chief Paul Rees.
Following are the nominations:
Best New Act:
White Lies; Friendly Fires; Empire Of The Sun; Passion Pit; The Dead Weather

Calif. AG to rejection of medical claims

LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Jerry Brown is looking into claims that the state's top health insurers reject about 20 percent of medical claims.
In a statement, Brown says substitute in his office are launching an independent research because a high denial rate advises the system itself is nonadaptive.
AG spokesman Scott Gerber says the research comes on the heels of a Los Angeles Times report that the state's largest health insurers reject up to 39.6 percent of claims.
California Association of Health Plans spokeswoman Nicole Kasabian Evans told the Times that health plans stay by contracts and there are logical reasons to deny claims.

the Civic, Kasabian swagger

“So did you miss us at the V Festival?” Tom Meighan asked the sold out Civic, prompting the city’s longest composite ‘Yesss’ since Wolves won promotion.
And for anyone who suffered Oasis’ grudging and soulless set at Weston Park, this was the perfect antidote.
From the minute Meighan blustered on stage newly trimmed and looking like a slicked up Russell Crowe he grouped any doubts that a current swine flu scare had dimmed his innate likeability and raucous stage presence. “Yes, I’m alive,” he beamed.
Epic opener Underdog set the standard and, having acquired the ‘difficult third album’ syndrome with ease, Kasabian were able to cherry pick a catalogue now incomparable by any band since The Stone Roses.

Cue big stomping anthems, almost all of which turned into sing along, clap along fan fests with the whole venue joining in, except the security staff, who bottled their big moment, to pantomime boos from everyone else.
The set was faultless, with ‘Where did all the love go’ and ‘Fire’ raising the bar ever higher. Time, unhappily , flew past. So much so that when Club Foot kicked in, it still felt like the center order.
In fact it was the set closer, giving way to a storming repeat of Stuntman, followed by a reprise of their Glastonbury showpiece as Candi Staton’s ‘You got the love’ bled seamlessly into a memorably rousing LSF.
As the band left a sea of smiling faces in their wake, Meighan shouted above the cheers: “We need you to make us the most important band in Britain.”

Oasis tag, "Lad rock" kings Kasabian reject

TOKYO (Reuters) - British band Kasabian have the local bomb squad's number on speed dial, but the new kings of "lad rock" insist their hell raising days are behind them.
Short listed for the prestigious Mercury Prize after their third album, "West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum," recently greatest he charts, the psychedelic rockers flatly reject comparisons to another, globally conquering all mail Bitish band that also has its fair share of awards: Oasis.
"People say we're going to be the new Oasis but we're not," Kasabian vocalist Tom Meighan told Reuters during a recent trip to Tokyo.
"There is no new Oasis. We can't be Oasis because they've done it. Oasis were giants in the '90s. It's nice when people say it, but they're kind of missing the point."
Kasabian approvaled Oasis in a series of stadium shows in Britain over the summer before flying to Japan to acomplish at the summer Sonic music festival, but Meighan said this was for the band's own good.
"We played in front of almost a million people in three weeks," said the 28 year old "The record was just out, so it's the best promotion you can get. You do it, don't you?"
Meighan accepted kasabian used to be "terrors" on tour and trouble has sought them out in unusual ways: guitarist Sergio Pizzorno found a live World War Two shell in his garden.
But now Meighan believes the band has grown up, with the critically acclaimed "West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum" marking a proveing point for the musicians who hail from Leicester, England.

Arctic Monkeys: Make Kasabian sick

The Arctic Monkeys' favorite karaoke songs make Kasabian guitar player Serge Pizzorno vomit.The "Crying Lightning" rockers often sing along to Craig David tracks in karaoke bars, and during one impromptu gig Pizzorno had to rush to the toilet to be physically sick because it sounded so dangerous.Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner said: "It either goes one way or the other doesn't it, the Craig David songs. I think me and Matt Helders did a set of Craig's "Seven Days" and it really made Serge from Kasabian sick. He really threw up. He left to be sick."But the stomach churning incident didn't stop the band which is embraced of Alex, drummer Matt, guitarist Jamie Cook and bassist Nick O'Malley from taking the microphone again during a night out at the Joshua Tree Saloon bar, in California.Matt who along with his bandmates recorded their latest LP "Humbug" at a nearby studio said: "I sang Craig David on karaoke recently just to lighten the mood a bit. But it was a very dangerous move. It was near an army base and there weren't many people there happily, but it was the kind of place where 'Seven Days' worked. I didn't same look at the screen once, I knew all the words!"Meanwhile, Matt has revealed he is a massive fan of Britney Spears.He explained: "I went to see Britney Spears at The O2. It was excellant. I'd never been to anything like that before, it blew my mind. I went with music producer James Ford, we were in the front row and she was eyeing him up. There was this one act where this big footage frame gets erected in front of us. We were thinking, 'Ooh, I good if she's going to come out of there!' She comes and stood on this footage frame and well blinked at Ford! I were miffed.'

Japan to drum up business to British music executives head

British rock band Kasabian perform at the Summer Sonic 2009 festival near Tokyo. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

in the Tokyo have a 30 british companies this week on a government sponsored mission to break into the huge, but notoriously tough, Japanese music market. Executives from small Freedom UK labels are thinking to build on the success of major British acts to carve out a niche in Japan, after the US the world second biggest music market.

The consumer mission, arranged by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), the government body, and trade group the BPI, comes at an uncertain time for the British record industry

In the first six months of this year UK music sales shrank by 7.3% from a year earlier, according to the BPI. CD album sales were down 13% from the same time last year, although a boom in digital downloads softened the blow.

The US market while British artists have increased there share over the past four year, they have struggled to gain a foothold in Japan.

Homegrown Japanese artists account for 80% of sales, but even in the country's international music market, UK artists account for only 25% well behind US artists