KASABIAN
Genuine Top Ten stars (and Damie Cullum haters)
Hylands Park – NME Stage – 12:30PM

What a week.

Sunday: The First Proper Top Ten Hit. Thursday: Top Of The Pops. Saturday: opening V by playing to the biggest crowd the NME Stage sees all day. So how do Leicester electro-baggyists Kasabian celebrate? By introducing a half-baked dirge with the line, “This one’s a jam we’re just working on.” What?!? Save it for the rehearsal studio, you monkeys. Still, the spiritual Northerners quickly redeem themselves by dedicating the one from off of Fifa 2004 to “all the ’shroomheads”, neatly calming our (frankly unlikely) fears that today might prove to be the Third Summer Of Love’s own Altamont. Then they got to hang out and talk to NME. Like we said, what a week.

The interview

NME: Are you surprised by how successful ‘LSF’ has been?

Tom: “I’m not surprised at all. There’s no-one else out there reaching for it.”

Is there anyone playing today you don’t like?

Tom: “(Immediately) Jamie Cullum. Oh Jesus Christ. Murdering ‘The Wind Cries Mary’, man. He’s a talented little turd, but you can’t touch Jimi.”

Eddie Smack