Kasabian Tickets

Short Biography
KASABIAN aren't the type of band to make promises they can't keep. So when this Leicester crew sing "Hit me, harder! I'm getting rewired. I flick the switch that make you feel electric, even faster than before..." you know they're gonna do exactly that. Faster and harder: KASABIAN are heading back to BIG DAY OUT to make you feel electric.
 
"It's a big honour to play Big Day Out..." - Serge Pizzorno (triple j mag, August 2011)
Guitarist/singer Serge Pizzorno, frontman Tom Meighan, bassist Chris Edwards and drummer Ian Matthews have never swaggered into BIG DAY OUT this well armed. Their setlist is now wall-to-wall killers - Club Foot, Empire, Shoot the Runner, Fire, LSF...

Short Biography
KASABIAN aren't the type of band to make promises they can't keep. So when this Leicester crew sing "Hit me, harder! I'm getting rewired. I flick the switch that make you feel electric, even faster than before..." you know they're gonna do exactly that. Faster and harder: KASABIAN are heading back to BIG DAY OUT to make you feel electric.
 
"It's a big honour to play Big Day Out..." - Serge Pizzorno (triple j mag, August 2011)
Guitarist/singer Serge Pizzorno, frontman Tom Meighan, bassist Chris Edwards and drummer Ian Matthews have never swaggered into BIG DAY OUT this well armed. Their setlist is now wall-to-wall killers - Club Foot, Empire, Shoot the Runner, Fire, LSF - and the power-pop-stormin'-electro-psychedelic-rock'n'roll of their brand new album, Velociraptor!
"Velociraptor! is such a beast it destroys everything in its path ...
A rallying cry that rock'n'roll is crying out for, and the craziest party tunes that stadiums will have ever heard - this ‘raptor is a killer." (Daily Star, August 2011)
In front of an audience, the songs of KASABIAN inspire a singalong "somewhere between a war cry and a mating call," reckons UK broadcaster STV. Meighan has warned that once fans wrap their head around Velociraptor! and join in on its huge choruses, things are going to go to "another level". Pizzorno takes it even further: "It's like, wow... any other band, anyone else in the world, has got to move out the way."
"Days Are Forgotten is built on a filthy delta blues riff, and boasts a trademark vowel-murdering, stadium-shaking chorus. For sheer catchiness, it's only rivalled by the splendidly silly title-track, with its grimy guitars, absurd lyrics and air-punching chorus. Festival-goers should learn the words ‘Velociraptor, he gonna find ya, he gonna kill ya, he gonna eat ya' now: you'll be hearing them a lot next year." (bbc.co.uk, September 2011)
"It's empowering," Pizzorno told The Times. "If you listen to Days Are Forgotten on headphones and walk down the street, it makes you think anything is possible." In KASABIAN's hands, anything is. Heck, only one band inspires headlines like this: "New York Police Department tell KASABIAN to ‘turn the volume down'" (NME, September 2011).
Joining KASABIAN on these side shows as very special guests are fellow-country men THE VACCINES. Not yet two years old, this four-piece has raced from fervent whisper on the London indie scene to full blown hype courtesy of their first singles, If You Wanna and Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra), while their first live shows earned them tags like "indecently exciting" and "game changers". With their March 2011 debut album, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?, packing DNA from '60s pop to the dirty fuzz of The Jesus & Mary Chain and a live show The AU Review called "no-bullshit-just-rock".
Alert the authorities. KASABIAN joined by THE VACCINES are flicking the switch: BIG DAY OUT SIDE SHOWS are about to get loud!
These are the ONLY AUSTRALIAN KASABIAN & THE VACCINES shows outside of the Big Day Out 2012 dates.

In-depth Biography
Kasabian took the British press by storm in the early 2000s by mixing traces of the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, and Primal Scream with Oasis-sized confidence and DJ Shadow-influenced electronics. Named after Linda Kasabian, Charles Manson's getaway driver turned state witness, the Leicester-based group also stole a page from the Band by moving into a remote farmhouse to brew its music. Communal life and a slew of shared influences produced an electronic, rock-oriented sound that harked back to the Madchester days of baggy pants and druggy dancing. Kasabian expanded that sound on later albums, but the band's foundation remained rooted in swaggering, fragmented dance textures and boisterous rock & roll.

With his acerbic approach to interviews, swaggering lead singer Tom Meighan quickly became a darling of the press during the band's infancy, and Kasabian's revolutionary logos and sleeve art only added to the excitement. Fold-out poster sleeves, 10" versions, and hand-stenciled covers accompanied singles like "Club Foot," "L.S.F," and "Processed Beats." The hype paid off as Kasabian's self-titled debut cracked the Top Five in October 2004, just one month after its U.K. release. Four singles landed in the Top 20 within six months, establishing the bandmates as rock & roll royalty in the process.

Founding guitarist Chris Karloff left the lineup two years later, citing creative differences with the remaining members. Kasabian's second album, Empire, had already been recorded, and guitarist Jay Mehler was brought aboard to replace Karloff during live performances. (Mehler eventually became an official member in 2008.) Empire was ultimately released in August 2006 and debuted atop the U.K. charts, with the title track soon becoming the band's third Top Ten hit. The band took home an NME Award in 2007 and began work on another album later that year. Dan the Automator was brought in to share production duties with Serge Pizzorno, and the resulting U.K. chart-topper West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum appeared in 2009. Automator would return for the 2011 album Velociraptor!, featuring the leadoff single "Switchblade Smiles." ~ David Jeffries, Rovi