Kasabian

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Kasabian have recently been awarded the Q Award for album the year for 2009 for ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ and are part way through a UK tour. Abbie Bunton had a quick chat with bassist Chris Edwards as he and the band prepared to wow an expectant Glasgow crowd.

How’s you? I’m a big fan. Thanks for taking the time to chat….

No worries…

How did you all meet?

Basically we were all at school. We were all eleven years old. We were board and decided to make up a band.

You all just got into music. What are your influences? Who are you listening to just now?

Everyone at the minute. I’ve just had my I-pod playing Led Zeppelin and DJ Shadow. We had quite a few people like ESG which is a dance band.

What’s Kasabian’s song writing process?

Serge comes up with the ideas for the songs and stuff and he’ll put down a little demo in the studio at home and then bring it to the studio where we all kind of add on to it, sort of thing. We make it from a demo to an actual track.

Who came up with the title for the new album?

That was Serge as well. He was watching a TV programme abut a place called West Ryder which is actually a place near Mayfield in Yorkshire. He just saw it on the telly and thought that it would be a cool idea.

It is…

You’ve always got really unusual and abstract video ideas…

We’ve got a guy we work with called Whizz who we did our first video with. He did the Comfort video. He comes up with a treatment or an idea. He brings it to us and we say yea or nay or that’ll be good if we did this instead, or change it round a bit or whatever… So it’s mainly our video director Whizz that comes up with it mainly.

What’s the best gig you played?

One of them would have to be the first time we played the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury. That was pretty special. We played it again this year but there’s something a bit more special about playing it the first time around.

What do you think of Scottish crowds?

Incredible! T in the Park about four years ago still ranks in my top five gigs of all time.

You must be very proud to have won best album of 2009 at the Q Awards.

Yes.

What’s next?

Basically we’re touring the album until the end of the month and then we’re going to have a bit of December for bits and bobs – Christmas; and then we’re back out there. We’re going out to Japan and Australia in January then New York in February so basically we’re touring the album until August next year really. Playing, playing, playing.

Do you have any words of encouragement for young people trying to get into the music industry?

Yeah. Pick up a real guitar. Put down ‘Garage Band’ or whatever you’ve got; ‘Rock Band’ or whatever it’s called. Interact with some real people in a music room. Play some tunes with your mates. You ain’t gonna get there on the Playstation, y’know what I mean? Ten years time we ain’t gonna have no British bands!

Interviewed by Abbie Bunton.

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