Kasabian reveal their (not so) rock and roll tour antics

Kasabian reveal their (not so) rock and roll tour antics to Absolute Radio.

Are Kasabian’s rock and roll days over?! Serge and Tom from the band have revealed they now take a microwave on tour because they crave baked beans and soup at 2am, and say they’d never move abroad because they’d miss British grub like sausages and mash! The English rock band have been speaking to Absolute Radio’s Geoff Lloyd about the new album Velociraptor and told Geoff instead of the booze usually associated with a band’s rider, they request Haribo sweets and noodles to satisfy their cravings.

Could you ever imagine yourself relocating?

K: What, to live in America?

GL: Yeah.

K: I mean, no, man, I just like my things around me too much, you know. I like my food, me, my sausage and mash or whatever, you know.

K: And your pancakes.

K: Yeah.

GL: You’re not one of these who packs Heinz baked beans when he goes on tour are you?

K: You know what, we’ve got a microwave.

GL: Have you really?

K: Like a portable microwave we take on tour. We’ve got Uncle Ben’s fried rice, stir fried rice, we’ve got it all ain’t we.

K: We have.

K: We’ve got noodles, we’ve got baked beans, it’s like a tuck shop.

K: It’s incredible, it’s quite an incredible thing.

K: Our security guy, Marty, it’s about two in the morning, we’re starving, so we’re [??8:10] and we’re weird, and we’ll knock on his door and he just goes ‘Come in’, and you sit around the microwave, it’s pretty special.

K: Yeah.

GL: Wow, when I think of people in bands knocking on a door at two in the morning to get hold of some supplies, that’s not what I’m necessarily thinking of, Uncle Ben’s fried rice.

K: Honestly, man, honestly, but I mean, it’s in the wild stretches. We play some mental gigs, right, all round the world, you know, when you need to eat you need to eat, you know what I mean?

K: Some of the food, well listen, call me old-fashioned but I just like my food, you know, how I like it, I don’t want to start messing around with these ‘mystery meats’, whatever it is.

K: Yeah, testicles and all that.

K: You go to catering and some of it is appalling, you know, you’re like ‘That’s been lying there for like four days and there’s flies over it’, I’m like ‘Let’s get the microwave out’.

K: Yeah, let’s get a soup on.

GL: You’ve got a flight case for it?

K: Yeah we have, yeah. It’s professional, it’s got Haribo in there, all sorts of things, man.

K: Yeah, it’s a weird one.

K: Yeah.

Geoff Lloyd’s Hometime Show on Absolute Radio.