Kasabian, Liam Gallagher among headliners for 2018 Isle Of Wight festival

Kasabian and Liam Gallagher are among the headliners confirmed for the Isle Of Wight festival next year.

Held between June 21st-24th 2018, the event also has Depeche Mode and The Killers at the top of its bill, while The Script, Van Morrison, James Bay and Blossoms are the other initial names.

Kasabian released For Crying Out Loud earlier this year, and are wrapping 2017 up with a UK arena tour which is in Liverpool tonight. “I decided to give myself six weeks to write an album like they used to do back in the day and that became really inspiring” Serge Pizzorno said of their sixth LP.

“I made sure there was no fat on anything, it was going to be classic songs, no self-indulgence, nothing was going on there that shouldn’t. I’d heard Berry Gordy had said if you’ve not got them in the first four bars then you’re finished, so I went in with this old school attitude of songwriting.”