Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno: 'Headlining Reading And Leeds Festivals was a huge moment'

Serge Pizzorno has said that headlining this year's >Reading And Leeds festivals was "a huge moment" and claimed their performances were so good they "flew out of this universe" – click above to watch.

The guitarist paid tribute to the festival's fans and said: "It's hard to put into words… I thought there were seven levels and there's actually eight. We got to the eighth level last night. It was absolutely unbelievable. The crowd… We flew out of this universe."

He went on to add:

We've not played here for seven years. It was great – it was a huge moment.

Pizzorno also said that he and his bandmates had been adamant that they wouldn't return to the event unless they were chosen as headliners. "The second time we played we headlined the second stage, and after that it was so good we said we'd never play it again unless we headlined the main stage," he said. "Which was, I suppose, a risky manoeuvre, but it paid off."

Reading & Leeds Warm Up Tickets Announced by Kasabian!!!!

Brixton’s O2 Academy in London show later this year have been announced by Kasabian.

The concert is to be on August 20, before their headline sets at Leeds and Reading festival.

On a question asked about related to their new album, Kasabian replied it will be darker than the last and that they are ditching the pop sound.

Serge is always writing music, whether he's on the road, at home, or in his hotel room," Meighan revealed at last weekend's T In The Park festival. "I imagine he's got a load of songs that I've not heard yet. He's played me some. I can't confirm how many he's got.

"We'll probably record when we have a break and get back in the studio late next year."

Kasabian earlier days drug story revealed!!!

It has been revealed out that the band "Kasabian" took drugs at their career earlier days because  they had lost the hope to get succeed.

They have been engaged and involved in many illegal substances after signing their record deal in 2002.Guitarist Serge Pizzorno told The Sunday Times magazine: "We did just about everything we could get our hands on. Pills, coke, weed, booze. There was no tomorrow."

They had been questioned about the any illegal substance the band didn't take, he said they shied away from heroin.

He explained: "We never got into smack. I've always thought that's not a good idea. Luckily it never got dark. We never fell into a position where we looked around the room and went, 'Who are these people?'"

The singer said: "It was great to do all the clichéd stuff, but we were young then. It's different now. We're more disciplined. We've done it all, haven't we? We don't gain anything from it anymore."