Returning indie giants Kasabian played a stunning set at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday (March 27th) as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust concerts.
The Leicester group are set for a busy year. Aside from completing their album ‘West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ the group are also confirmed as the main tour support for Oasis’ massive stadium jaunt.
Kasabian will no doubt announce a massive tour of their own, and are set for a busy festival season which kicks off soon with The Great Escape in Brighton. The band will be taking new material with them along the way, and fans received an amazing blast of unheard songs at the Royal Albert Hall show.
The Teenage Cancer Trust shows are a series of charity gigs organised by The Who’s frontman Roger Daltrey. Will all profits going to aid research into cancer, these events are always a little special.
The group opened with the Krautrock inspired track ‘Underdog’ taken from the new album. The new material saw Kasabian keen to experiment, with forthcoming single ‘Fire’ showcasing a neat synth line and singer Tom Meighan’s impressive falsetto.
The band included a number of covers and elements of other songs in their set. During ‘Processed Beats’ Kasabian guitarist Serge Pizzorno began singing lines from Grandmaster Flash’s ‘The Message’. The band finished by segueing The Source featuring Candi Staton’s rave classic ‘You Got The Love’ into anthem ‘L.S.F’.
Kasabian played:
‘Underdog’
‘Shoot The Runner’
‘Reason Is Treason’
‘Cutt Off’
‘Fire’
‘Processed Beats’
‘Sun/Rise/Light/Flies’
‘Thick As Thieves’
‘Me Plus One’
‘U Boat’
‘Empire’
‘Fast Fuse’
‘Doberman’
‘Club Foot’
‘Stuntman’
‘You Got The Love’
‘L.S.F’
