Genius Marnie – GENUIS!
Please visit Shirlaine Forrest’s gallery at Flickr to see some brilliant photos of Kasabian’s @ last night’s Heaton Park show. I especially love this one of Tom!
And, here’s a few videos from Yootoob]
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And he was wearing rock and roll shoes!
The Kasabian guitarist apparently once harboured ambitions of playing up front for Leicester City and on this evidence there is no reason why he couldn’t leave his rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle behind to become a journeyman striker at Championship level. Live on Soccer AM with the cameras rolling, the Foxes fan conjured up this sweet volley.
Music gigs raked in an impressive £1.28billion in the past 12 months, compared with the £1.24billion from record sales, meaning we love live.
So if you fancy yourself as the next Brian Epstein, Alan McGee or even Simon Fuller, and want a piece of the pie, just how easy is it to put on a gig and unearth that lucrative act?
I shadowed an aspiring promoter on show night and discovered all you need is a venue, some bands and a selection of savoury snacks.
‘A friend once came to see an early White Sunday gig. He left before the headliners because he didn’t know who they were. Four weeks later that band appeared on MTV and now he’s the biggest Kasabian fan ever.’
For more info, go to www.bwmusic.co.uk
Kasabian have been lumbered with a rubbish toilet on their tourbus. “The toilet is awful,” singer Tom Meighan said. “You can’t do anything in it,” he added (The Sun).
http://www.nme.com/news/daily-gossip/44912
Thanks to Fitzy for the link…