Serge Pizzorno with Kasabian @ Leicester City’s King Power Stadium. May 28th 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Kasabian kicked off the touring which should take them to the release of a new album at some point this year in Sydney last night.
The two shows at the Sydney Opera House, the second of which is due to take place tonight, start a period on the road which will include many festival appearances this summer. As promised, new material was aired via the live debut of Comeback Kid, while footage of their cover of Daft Punk’s Around The World is doing the rounds on social media.
Serge Pizzorno told Q recently that some time away from the recording of Kasabian’s next LP ultimately enabled him to take things ‘to another level’. “In May the record was done, but I’d never had any time off so I thought, ‘You know what? I’m going to have the summer off for the first time in my life’,” he said.
“It was incredible. I got married, went on holiday for ages and just lived a bit. When I came back in September I decided to graffiti over everything. I’d done everything on an acoustic for the first time and had these beautiful, crafting tunes but started graffiting over the lot, just taking it to another level.”