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Post by highroyds on Jan 16, 2014 17:01:01 GMT
Serge wants to destroy Starbucks. What's the weirdest, wrongest, most confused story you've ever seen about Kasabian in the press? I'll always remember fondly how Gordon Smart made it sound like they would play a 9/11 memorial gig in New York, when in reality it was a Mulberry party on the 12th, and they got a lot of hate for it because nobody understood why they would perform at a memorial gig.
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Post by cuttoff on Jan 16, 2014 20:45:15 GMT
The Starbucks stories are so stupid. Do these people even understand what a metaphor is or it's misinterpreted intentionally? Another stupid thing which annoys me a lot is everybody randomly quoting that one line from Ezz-Eh out of context, after it was mentioned in the NME interview. Now everybody from every idiot on twitter to the Guardian snobs are talking about it like it's the ultimate proof that Kasabian are dumb, just based on one sentence and of course nobody has read the actual interview where Tom says that the song is comic and cartoonish. |
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Post by jayfreeman on Jan 16, 2014 21:54:27 GMT
The Starbucks stories are so stupid. Do these people even understand what a metaphor is or it's misinterpreted intentionally? Another stupid thing which annoys me a lot is everybody randomly quoting that one line from Ezz-Eh out of context, after it was mentioned in the NME interview. Now everybody from every idiot on twitter to the Guardian snobs are talking about it like it's the ultimate proof that Kasabian are dumb, just based on one sentence and of course nobody has read the actual interview where Tom says that the song is comic and cartoonish. Well Kasabian guys don't give a damn about them, I guess neigher should we. For most of those idiots and snobs you are talking about this is a way to get some attention. So the less you get irritated on them the less satisfaction you give them. |
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Post by oaz on Jan 17, 2014 6:19:08 GMT
it's a nme thing! they always fill their site with loads of shitty articles - with awfully ridiculous and out of context titles -taken from an anecdote from the main article. and in one hour it's everywhere on the internert while it's probably a fucking single line in the whole song. and all those idiotics analysing the thing in every sense ohh come on people shut uppp. (and even if the whole song is about the horsemeat scandal i don't see the stupidity in that but anyway..)
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Post by highroyds on Jan 17, 2014 12:46:18 GMT
I just find it quite upsetting to see so many people calling them dimwitted idiots based one single line from an unreleased song taken out of context. They could have the deepest, most intelligent philosophical song on that record now, all everyone cares about is LOL HORSEMEAT fucking Oasis wannabes
Another one: A few months ago Q Magazine claimed they played five gigs in 2013, when it was actually 14, because they don't understand that countries outside the UK exist - it was five in England if you don't count Comic Relief. They also claimed Kasabian only ever cancelled one single gig, which I'm just not going to comment on.
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Post by cuttoff on Jan 18, 2014 20:57:32 GMT
This one: Kasabian's Drummer Broke Hand Before NME Performance! The other members of the band were sent into panic when Ian Matthews fell and broke his hand just as they prepare to take the stage at the awards event! The group faced a last minute panic trying to land a replacement drummer! Shock horror! Except he broke his finger (not hand) way before the NME performance and Ian's drum tech Laurie (who's a great drummer himself) has already been playing instead of Ian for several European gigs and performed beautifully at NMEs, playing Vlad - I was a very lucky witness to that.
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Post by highroyds on Jan 18, 2014 21:18:47 GMT
Except he broke his finger (not hand) way before the NME performance and Ian's drum tech Laurie (who's a great drummer himself) has already been playing instead of Ian for several European gigs and performed beautifully at NMEs, playing Vlad - I was a very lucky witness to that. They make it sound like Laurie was just some guy they found on the street. He's a proper drummer, he used to play with famous people, and I'm sure he knows the songs because he hears them every single day. I've got more: Everyone claiming it's only Serge's face on the Velociraptor cover. I admit I thought it too when they first revealed it, but if you look at it for more than three seconds you see it. You see Tom's nose, and then you see the rest. Nevermind the fact that they said repeatedly that it's four, and the power of four, hunting in packs of four... |
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Post by zeneo on Apr 17, 2014 7:28:55 GMT
I would call Mona Lisa crap if I was being shown just the corner of it, or just the background. Everyone would be mad at me. It's the same with Eez-eh. Concluding a line as a proof for someone's idiocy is idiotic in itself. Preferably, no one gave fucks about 'We're being watched by Google', which to me indicates the USA spying over the Internet thing
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Post by cuttoff on May 7, 2014 19:21:04 GMT
About the horsemeat line from Shortlist. Kasabian gave a couple of music magazines a preview of some tracks they were working on, of which the now-lead-single was one, but with work-in-progress lyrics that concerned “horse meat in the burgers”. The piece came out, the wider media saw said lyric…
Serge: “…and the next thing I see online is another guy saying it’s a protest song about horse meat. He was talking about a song he’d never heard, the words weren’t right, he had no idea what the song was about or what context it was written in, and was just caning the band, caning the song. But he assumed that I was that thick that I would make a social comment on a year-old story. It was weird because when that piece came out, it was three or four weeks after I did the interview and it had changed completely and I was like ‘F*ck, that doesn’t even exist any more. It was a demo!’ I was thinking, ‘You should hear some of our other demo lyrics, they’re f*cking disgraceful!’”
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Post by jayfreeman on May 7, 2014 19:49:15 GMT
About the horsemeat line from Shortlist. Kasabian gave a couple of music magazines a preview of some tracks they were working on, of which the now-lead-single was one, but with work-in-progress lyrics that concerned “horse meat in the burgers”. The piece came out, the wider media saw said lyric…
Serge: “…and the next thing I see online is another guy saying it’s a protest song about horse meat. He was talking about a song he’d never heard, the words weren’t right, he had no idea what the song was about or what context it was written in, and was just caning the band, caning the song. But he assumed that I was that thick that I would make a social comment on a year-old story. It was weird because when that piece came out, it was three or four weeks after I did the interview and it had changed completely and I was like ‘F*ck, that doesn’t even exist any more. It was a demo!’ I was thinking, ‘You should hear some of our other demo lyrics, they’re f*cking disgraceful!’”
And now i want to hear the other demo lyrics too:) |
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Post by zeneo on May 18, 2014 15:36:37 GMT
Well, not exactly a press fail, but has anyone read the tweet about Michael Hogan. He made it during the #laterjools show, using the hashtag and taking a stab at the band saying Sege called three plumbers to fix the heating system in his fedora cupboard. -_-
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Post by highroyds on Jun 14, 2014 16:29:43 GMT
Some things from various recent album reviews: Suli Breaks is a woman, Tom sings Glass, Tom sings Explodes, someone randomly calling Neon Noon "New Moon", journalists mindlessly repeating the horsemeat line like a broken record. If I can be bothered I comment something like, oh you didn't actually listen to the album then? You just copied from the NME? That's cool.
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Post by Ang1 on Jun 23, 2014 22:14:25 GMT
I can't remember where I saw it but yesterday I was looking up the reviews for Leicester and they had a picture of Chris but underneath they said he was Serge the guitarist.
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Post by highroyds on Jun 23, 2014 22:32:24 GMT
I can't remember where I saw it but yesterday I was looking up the reviews for Leicester and they had a picture of Chris but underneath they said he was Serge the guitarist. Oh I saw that! And everyone attributing what Chris said at the end to Serge. |
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Post by cuttoff on Jun 26, 2014 10:52:03 GMT
Nme again. They're a 'Leicester duo' and 'Serge Pizzorno and Tom Meighan have practically written an entire album specifically for the occasion' (i.e. Glasto)
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