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Kasabian: DIY’s August 2017 cover stars revealed!
The new issue - free from stockists - is out this Friday (4th August), and also features The Cribs, INHEAVEN, Wolf Alice, Rat Boy, PVRIS and more.
Today, dear readers, we come to you with good news - there’s a new issue of DIY out on Friday! Festival season is now in full swing, so it’s only right we bring one of the world’s best festival headliners to the cover. Kasabian are gearing up to headline Reading & Leeds for the second time at the end of the month, and we spent a weekend with the hellraisers when they headlined Glasgow’s new TRNSMT festival this summer, getting under the skin of one of the country’s most brilliant live bands, as well as the most consistently maligned.
Tom Meighan and Serge Pizzorno have always been united in the pursuit of fun and playfulness, of keeping things just that little bit silly. During the campaign for 2014 LP ‘48:13’, they performed backed by a series of flashing slogans including ‘Free Deirdre’ and ‘Maggot Munch’. When they headlined Glastonbury, their only ‘special guest’ was pal Noel Fielding dressed as a cartoon vampire. Joyously irreverent, theirs is a humour entrenched as much in a Young Ones-esque tradition of eccentric British comedy as one of boisterous British bands. That’s the bit that so many people seem to struggle with. “One of the most frustrating things is when people miss the humour. There’s so much piss taking in everything we do,” begins Serge.
“We’re in on the joke, that’s the thing that people don’t seem to understand.” The oft-quoted stereotype, we suggest, is of Kasabian as a kind of real life Spinal Tap, dialling up the rock’n’roll cliché to 11… “It’s that middle class, apologetic, broadsheet opinion,” he replies, getting slightly rattled by the thought. “Kings of Leon: that’s Spinal Tap. Kanye getting stuck on a fucking digger truck at Glastonbury: that’s Spinal Tap. I mean, hearing Kanye singing Freddie Mercury out of tune at Glastonbury is as Spinal Tap as anything anyone else has ever done, so… it’s rich, is what I’m saying. The parody and the ridiculousness of being in a band is all nonsense. It doesn’t matter what kind of band you’re in; it’s all nonsense.”
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