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Post by stannis on May 21, 2014 22:09:22 GMT
Ah, right. Great place to see them first though! I think their first time in Scotland was supporting the Cooper Temple Clause in the QMU, but King Tut's was their first headlining gig three months on.
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Post by bumblejaybee on May 21, 2014 22:22:45 GMT
Feel free to share why they're your favourites! It was a total fluke seeing them. I feel extremely lucky to have seen them in such a small venue. |
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Post by steveonfire on May 22, 2014 4:34:46 GMT
Coachella 2012 weekend 1. I have been to the festival 11 years straight and that is up there as a top 3 performance out of all I have witnessed. Still listen to the bootleg weekly. Even had a chance to hang with the boys and Noel post set as well, it's nice when your friend runs the festival  |
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Post by cuttoff on May 24, 2014 0:11:29 GMT
It's so interesting to hear about people's past gigs and it would be really great to have threads for them. If you've been to a gig you want to talk about, you can also make a separate thread for that - maybe somebody else was there too and can share some memories or pictures, or just tell us all about it.
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Post by cuttoff on Aug 19, 2014 9:09:31 GMT
One of my favourite Kasabian gigs was 4 years ago today, at Brixton Academy. Tom joined Dark Horses for Count Me In, which was so gorgeous. They played probably one of the most beautiful versions of The Doberman that I've seen and Tom got so emotional; and they debuted I Feel Love. One of the most special things about that gig was that they brought back Silver Bullet (I think it was the last time they played it), Lisa joined them and 3 of them singing the chorus was so impossibly beautiful, still gives me goosebumps. The lyrics of the song were taped on stage that day for some reason and somebody was selling it afterwards - highroyds bought it for me as a birthday present, it's one of my most treasured Kasabian possessions. And then, after the gig, I almost got hit by a plastic bottle full of some disgusting cocktail Jay was making and throwing out of the dressing room window for the fans. I still have that bottle. One of my pics from that day:  |
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Post by highroyds on Aug 19, 2014 14:21:53 GMT
and they debuted I Feel Love. I remember watching Twitter during the gig for any kind of info and someone was like "They just covered Donna Summer" and we were like lol yeah sure. I think we weren't used to the full extent of their awesome yet. The lyrics of the song were taped on stage that day for some reason and somebody was selling it afterwards - highroyds bought it for me as a birthday present, it's one of my most treasured Kasabian possessions. Aww. And they are so wrong, it's beautiful. Someone clearly just googled them instead of asking the guy who wrote the song. And then, after the gig, I almost got hit by a plastic bottle full of some disgusting cocktail Jay was making and throwing out of the dressing room window for the fans. I still have that bottle. Longer shelf life than Jay. |
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Post by cuttoff on Aug 21, 2014 14:39:36 GMT
And then, after the gig, I almost got hit by a plastic bottle full of some disgusting cocktail Jay was making and throwing out of the dressing room window for the fans. I still have that bottle. Longer shelf life than Jay. Lol |
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Post by cuttoff on Feb 3, 2015 15:04:51 GMT
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Post by stannis on Feb 3, 2015 16:17:11 GMT
Haha, I bet the crew don't miss load-ins on the lower rung venue tours. I found some more about that van on Google from the Sound and Movement book. " The band themselves were still skint, and inevitably this meant that the van they’d travel around in was prone to the odd bout of temperament. On one particular occasion, it had given up the ghost somewhat after a gig at King Tut’s Wah-Wah Hut up in Glasgow, which if you’ve ever been lucky enough to visit, is a very hilly city indeed. No problem, at least not according to Acky Hanning.
“We both had splitter vans at the top of this hill,” chuckles Trevor Wensley. “And their sound engineer decides that if he just rolls it down the hill, he could jump start it. He gets in, we’re all … going, ‘Yeeeah what a great idea’ and just as we’re setting off someone goes, ‘But aren’t the brakes power assisted? You need to turn the engine on before they works!’ So there was this frozen moment where we were imagining getting to the bottom and smashing through lines of traffic before we stopped, ’cause he wouldn’t be able to turn the breaks on but thankfully the power kicked in at the last minute and he did. But you kind of let things like that pass you by at the time because there’s just this general encouragement that it’s all a bit slapdash and it’ll all somehow just hang together in the end.”
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Post by serge87 on Jun 2, 2015 17:31:30 GMT
First time I saw Kasabian was in Milan in 2009 in a festival were Oasis should have been attended, but they sadly split up the day before. Serge and Tom managed to blow away the sadness that day and now Kasabian is absolutely my favourite band.
P.S.
I hope my english is quite good to be understood by native English speaker ^_^'.
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Post by highroyds on Jun 3, 2015 18:46:15 GMT
I hope my english is quite good to be understood by native English speaker ^_^'. Your English is great, don't worry! We're all from lots of different countries here.  |
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Post by arodge74 on Jun 3, 2015 19:27:00 GMT
So true!!
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Post by serge87 on Jun 3, 2015 20:02:47 GMT
Anyway, the most amazing gig that I ever attended was The One at Victoria Park in Leicester last summer. It's been so great, the english atmosphere and the city of Leicester was so beautiful. *_*
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Post by cuttoff on Oct 21, 2015 15:14:04 GMT
6 years ago today I was queuing outside the Forum in Kentish Town when they started soundchecking Fast Fuse with the old outro. They had dropped the outro at that point after a few festival performances in 2008 and I was sure that I'll never see it live and I just have to live with it, even thought it's one of my favourite things ever. So I heard the soundcheck faintly and spent the rest of the day convinving myself that it didn't happen and I'm totally imagining it in case they don't play it. And they did and it was more beautiful that I could imagine. I lost my mind to the extent that for weeks I didn't even remember getting my camera out and recording it - I spent ages moaning that nobody bothered to record it and accidentaly found my own recording . They also played Silver Bullet that day for the first time which was perfect. |
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Post by highroyds on Jan 21, 2016 15:29:48 GMT
Ian just mentioned the original Liverpool blackout in 2011 in an interview when he was asked about a "goosebumps moment". He didn't remember when or where it happened though. After the initial confusion I just remember thinking how quickly and professionally they reacted, turning it into something magical instead of interrupting the gig, which really kills the atmosphere.
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