Kasabian Talk New Material

Leicester indie giants Kasabian have spoken about their new grunge influenced material.

With Oasis out of action a number of groups are attempting to seize their throne. Close friends and fellow British rockers Kasabian could yet emerge as potential replacements, with the rowdy Leicester lads recently completing a massive arena tour.

Celebrating the success of their third album 'West Ryder Pauper Asylum' the band were keen to see out the year in style. Set to take a short break Kasabian have signalled their intentions to return with new material in 2010.

Speaking to BBC 6Music the band's singer Tom Meighan claimed that a variety of garage and psych groups inspired 'West Ryder Pauper Asylum'. Asked what was fuelling current writing sessions the singer claimed that Nirvana and Pink Floyd were big influences.

"Sergio Pizzorno (guitarist) has got a body of songs that are sounding great," he explained. "It’s nothing like what we’ve done on this record it’s really old school grunge. There’s a lot of Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon, piano-based songs at the minute."

Continuing, the singer outlined the band's plans to return with a quick-fire fourth album. "I think we’ll do it a bit quicker this time," he said. "We took a good three months off last time, because we toured for about four years and that’s the only reason we took that amount of time off, because we toured like crazy."

"I think this time we’ll have a few weeks off or a month off, then we’ll go into the studio and record the new record. Hopefully we won’t wait around so much this time."

Elsewhere, the Kasabian frontman also recalled meeting Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant. "I just told him how much I loved him" the singer laughed.

"I called him 'Mr Plant'. He was like, 'Don’t call me Mr Plant, call me Robert and I brought your record and it’s great', is what he said. He was wonderful."