Kasabian – Processed Beats
The most exciting debut record of the year… 5/5 Album Of The Week” – Derek Brown, The Sun
This is how the Stone Roses’ Second Coming should have sounded… There’s violent fun to be had on the dancefloor… 4/5 – Betty Clarke, Guardian
Kasabian’s debut album is a fiery assertion of rock’n’roll ethics… Who needs iTunes when you can have fight tunes? – Paul Moody, NME
Is it us or does the rest of the music scene suddenly look a bit anaemic? 4/5 Album Of The Month – Matt Cartmell, The Fly
A petrol-bomb-fuelled riot of a debut – Chris Parkin, Time Out
I break bones/ Stealing mobile phones… – Processed Beats
* RADIO 1 B-LIST* *ALBUM REACHES No.4 AND GOES GOLD* *JAPANESE No.1 SINGLE + No.5 ALBUM* *ANTI-RACISM GIG IN STOKE* *NEW UK TOUR DATES* *AFRIKA BAMBAATAA MIX*
KASABIAN release Processed Beats on 11th Oct through RCA on mini and maxi CD and 10” vinyl. This is a re-recording of their limited edition 10” vinyl only debut, which sold out in a week and now fetches over £150 on Ebay. It’s backed on both CDs by new track The Nightworkers, which is excellent and now part of the band’s live set. Feature’s Tom on guitar for the first time… Formats also include Afrika Bambaataa’s stripped down old-school mix of Processed Beats.
’Processed Beats’ is a rant at the world we find ourselves in. we’re all fucked so we may as well get down before the end. – Sergio
The single follows their recent UK No. 4 Album and Top 10 Single, and Japanese International Chart No.1 Single and No.5 Album. Kasabian were one of the big hits of the festival season, rocking Glastonbury, V2004, T-in-the-Park, and Reading/Leeds. They also headlined the Love Music Hate Racism festival in Stoke.
The band head out on a short UK tour in October:
October
Tue 12th Warrington Parr Hall 01925 442 345
Thu 14th Edinburgh Liquid Rooms SOLD OUT
Fri 15th Sheffield Leadmill 0870 010 4555
Sat 16th Leeds Blank Canvas 0113 245 5570
Tue19th London Astoria SOLD OUT
The band will be spending most of October touring Europe, and return to Japan in November to do a tour of 1600 capacity venues – with Tokyo selling out in hours, a second date there has already been added. Japan shipped 30,000 albums in advance.
The self-titled debut album came out on 6th September through RCA on CD, limited DVD+, and limited 10″ vinyl. It reached No.4 and went Gold within a week (100,000). It features their recent Top 10 hit L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever), their Top 20 hit Club Foot and new versions of limited edition predecessors (the afore-mentioned Processed Beats and Reason Is Treason – the latter in particular being a radical reworking).
At the request of their beloved Leicester City, the band recently took to the pitch for charity during half time at the Leicester v Brighton game. The challenge was to hit the bar (on-pitch not in corporate box…), with proceeds going towards Birch’s Charity, which was set up by Leicester City legend Alan Birchenall. Sergio and Karloff were on the books of Notts Forest and Aston Villa respectively as teenagers but gave it up for rock’n’roll; it was Chris Edwards who put in the best performance though, striking wood twice. Also, note that Sergio always wore LCFC socks underneath his Forest kit when playing for them…
MINI CD
1. Processed Beats
2. The Nightworkers
10″ VINYL (in poster bag)
1. Processed Beats
2. Ovary Stripe (Kasabian Remix)
3. Processed Beats (Afrika Bambaataa Remix)
MAXI CD:
1. Processed Beats
2. The Nightworkers
3. L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever) (live at Cabinet War Rooms)
4. Processed Beats (Afrika Bambaataa Remix)
5. Processed Beats video