Kasabian in Leicester

[wbarenno]

Why would noel need to support kasabian? Not a chance

I really think its just going to be some local bands now. Cant see it being anyone who hardly anyone has heard of

[TheSilence]

Doesn't need to, maybe he wants to. Noel's very good friends with Kasabian too, I don't think its that unlikely

[rossm18]

I think the courteeners are the main support

[dentalplan]

Doesn't need to, maybe he wants to. Noel's very good friends with Kasabian too, I don't think its that unlikely

It is though. I think he's rejected support slots at Stone Roses' Heaton Park stint and The Rolling Stones so he's unlikely to throw a performance in for Kasabian while he's probably busy working on new music. Damon Albarn is similarly unlikely.

I think the courteeners are the main support

Yeah I think so too. The R+L delay thing kind of makes sense now. Beneath that it'll probably be By The Rivers and Jersey Budd or something.

[Ged Devereux]

Hopefully they'll announce it tomorrow with the release of the album! Really hope it is Courteeners!

[thunderstorms]

god i CANNOT believe they haven't announced anyone yet! + ticket master says my ticket is still "being processed"...

[dannypal]

Personally I don't mind who is supporting them as it's all about kasabian's home coming. Got the new album yesterday and I am enjoying it, different to their other stuff but very good

[wbarenno]

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Kasabian-frontman-Tom-Meighan-talks-new-album/story-21206225-detail/story.html

Tom says he cant talk about the support slots but does mention the Maccabees

[kingcrawler]

The Maccabees would be a bit strange as they're not doing any festivals this summer.

[TheSilence]

I don't know if I've read that wrong but the way I've read it, he flat out says it's the Maccabees really, doesn't he?

[TheSilence]

Yeah, I just hope he's joking... I saw them support RHCP at Knebworth and they were terrible!!

Can we have the Paolo Nutini rumours back please?

Yeah I didn't enjoy their set in '12 at R&L either. Could have put me to sleep to be honest.

I'd much rather Paolo tbh, shame there's no chance of that

[luckysalt]

From me it sounds like he doesn't know who the support acts are but thinks The Maccabees are one of them.

For those questioning why aren't the support acts announced.

Let me lay it out for you. LiveNation running this thing yeah, 35k capacity, they believed that Kasabian were big enough to sell this out without the announcement of support, they were right, so now they don't have to spend big money to help sell out the gig, meaning more profit, obviously they'll want to book someone who the lads [Kasabian] think are a good warm up for the crowd, to set the tone.

No chance in hell you guys are getting big support for this, what I've just said are the facts.

Edited June 9, 2014 by luckysalt

[Kris_lcfc]

From me it sounds like he doesn't know who the support acts are but thinks The Maccabees are one of them.

For those questioning why aren't the support acts announced.

Let me lay it out for you. LiveNation running this thing yeah, 35k capacity, they believed that Kasabian were big enough to sell this out without the announcement of support, they were right, so now they don't have to spend big money to help sell out the gig, meaning more profit, obviously they'll want to book someone who the lads [Kasabian] think are a good warm up for the crowd, to set the tone.

No chance in hell you guys are getting big support for this, what I've just said are the facts.

Absolutelty bang on the money with this. It was always going to sell out because they're coming home, and from that article it seems clear the lads have no idea who's up ahead of them. At the end of the day though, this is all about Kasabian playing a big show in their home city, that's what people have bought into, any decent support will be a bonus for me

[wbarenno]

The new album is shit hot by the way!

[fullfathom5]

The new album is shit by the way!

[fullfathom5]

Anyway, when are they gonna hurry up and announce the support acts?!?

[marigold83]

Cant wait for the Gig now, should be a good one.

Edited June 12, 2014 by marigold83

[wbarenno]

Has there ever been a big outside gig that hasnt announced its line up more or less a week before the gig?

I cant think of any?

[kingcrawler]

Serge just said on the radio that the supports are being announced in the next few days and they haven't been able to announce them yet because they're festival exclusives somewhere. Looks like it's The Courteeners then.

[graham1030]

It'll be Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher supporting

[dentalplan]

It'll be Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher supporting

Good job you're betting for free, because it won't be.

[the wonderwhy]

Hmm, just gonna chuck it out there, The Specials are festival exclusives at IOW this weekend, and if they're announcing the next few days that could mean early next week when exclusivity wont really matter?

Mind you they charge more for their own gigs than the ticket price of this one, so probably not.

[Dom Wall]

Could be Damon? A month till Latitude, where maybe the exclusivity "runs out" a month` before? (we know they're pretty lax on exclusive at Lat anyway!)

[fillou]

Tickets arrived in Belgium and I'm counting the days ....

It would be great to have someone like Noel or Damon Albarn opening, I think they have a good relationship since they work together for things like teenage cancer trust. But if not ... who cares? Weather forecast is very positive, so we're making it a great weekend in England. I hoped the English national team would play Friday evening so I could watch it somewhere on a giant screen in London, but we're not that Lucky.

[kingcrawler]

Didn't he just say that it was hard to book acts, because a lot of bands have certain catches in their contract, so it wasn't that easy? Might have mis-heard him, but don't think he said that the bands they have are part of that issue.

I'm sure he mentioned festivals and exclusives, not sure why he'd bring that up if the supports didn't have that problem.