Tom Meighan with Kasabian headlining Leeds Festival 2017 (Gary Mather / Live4ever)
Kasabian have quickly followed up their headlining weekend at Reading/Leeds by releasing a video for III Ray (The King).
Starring Game Of Thrones’ Lena Headey, the promo preempts the single’s release on September 22nd after Kasabian unleashed the parent album For Crying Out Loud earlier this year. “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 the 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.”
“We wanted to make a very positive album full of hope with guitars to remind people that it’s still relevant.”
Kasabian tour the UK and Ireland again in the winter, starting at Newcastle’s Metro Radio Arena on November 24th.
