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's songwriter and guitarist Serge Pizzorno

Kasabian's songwriter and guitarist Serge Pizzorno is attempting to educate music fans about the "rock'n'roll" way.

The Kasabian guitarist admits he is concerned that the younger generation are growing up without the knowledge of rebellious and creative artists and authors such as writer Ernest Hemingway, poet Charles Bukowski and abstract painter Pablo Picasso.He told Q magazine: "Kids don't know about the rock'n'roll way anymore. I don't mean just the music but Hemingway, Bukowski, Picasso…people who saw the world differently.”Serge admits he is inspired by creative people who are able to live a “wild life” but also acknowledges he needs to work hard to be successful.He added: "Bukowski, Keith Richards, Hemingway…those are artists that I respect. Those are the people you have to live up to if you can. They embraced a wild life so that they could experience something particular. I am fascinated by that and I always will be. But I've got quite a strong work ethic as well. You can't miss a show. You can't record a lot of s**t music and it down to 'being an artist and living the life.' You've got to get the job done or you've failed."Echoing some of his influences, Serge admits to turning to potent spirit absinthe for inspiration.He added: "About a year ago when we were making the last album. I was drinking a lot of it then. It's f***ing poison, man. It drives you mad."