Report: Rockfeedback @ iTunes Festival Night 22 Kasabian, 22/7/09
3/5
By: Matt Tomiak
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This year, Rockfeedback is delighted to be the official blog partner for the rather exciting iTunes Festival, taking place at London’s Roundhouse every night in July. Over the course of the festival, we’ll not be missing a night, delivering morning-after reports on everyone from Oasis and Bloc Party to Franz Ferdinand and Kasabian playing intimate sets to fans lucky enough to have won tickets to the shows.
Strange ones, Kasabian. Their faintly ridiculous cod-revolutionary posturing and perpetually inane lyrics definitely have the potential to grate, but the Leicester collective appear so blithely un-self aware that to see them hold court before a rabidly partisan audience is actually quite charming. This has much to do with sashaying singer Tom Meighan, a grinning, puppyishly enthusiastic ringmaster (no chance of any Liam G-style walk-out histrionics from him.)
The band’s default setting of rabble-rousing, red-blooded dance-rock is also bluntly effective, as a string of top-notch singles - ‘Shoot The Runner’, ‘Cutt Off’, ‘Processed Beats’ and ‘Empire’ unveiled in rapid-fire succession verifies. However, there’s also evidence that the band’s third album (entitled ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ with characteristic understatement) isn’t exclusively dependent upon this formula, as the Kinks-y ‘Thick as Thieves’ proves an unexpected highlight. But it’s the signature anthems, namely, a seismic ‘Club Foot’ and climactic ‘L.S.F’ that send Tom’s acolytes home happy.
Artists in this article: Kasabian
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