Kasabian have announced dates for an arena tour in support of their latest album, ‘Happenings’, with selected dates alongside The Streets.
The band kick off the tour tomorrow (July 6) with a homecoming show at Victoria Park supported by acts including Kaiser Chiefs, before heading to arenas in Bournemouth and Bristol. The Leicester group then wrap up their July dates with a headlining slot at Latitude Festival, which will include acts such as Duran Duran, Orbital, The Vaccines, Khruangbin, and Jockstrap.
The Streets will then join Sergio Pizzorno and co for a second leg in November, beginning in their hometown of Birmingham, before hitting Glasgow, London and Manchester. Pre-sale for tickets to the November shows start July 8 at 9:30am BST, with general sales starting on July 10 at 9:30am BST via Ticketmaster.
The dates for Kasabian’s upcoming 2024 tour are:
JULY 2024
06 – Leicester, Victoria Park (with Kaiser Chiefs)
22 – Bristol, O2 Academy
23 – Bournemouth, O2 Academy
26 – Latitude Festival
NOVEMBER 2024 (with The Streets)
08 – Birmingham, bp pulse LIVE
09 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
15 – London, The O2
16 – Manchester, Co-op Live
The tour follows a secret set that they played at the Woodsies stage this Glastonbury Festival, which marked their fifth appearance at Worthy Farm. Calling Glastonbury “the greatest festival”, Pizzorno noted that the appearance marked “one of the greatest days in this band’s history”, previewing their new record while covering dance classics such as Deee-Lite’s ‘Groove Is In The Heart’.
In an interview released today with NME, frontman Sergio Piozzorno explained the pop-structured mentality behind the band’s eigth record. “Usually, I tend to react to the last album, and I went through it surgically (wahey) so that every eight bars, it hits,” Pizzorno explains. “It’s a pop record, in a way – it’s just big song after big song. I wanted to make the point, then leave as fast as possible.”
Meanwhile, The Streets most recently dropped the contemplative single ‘End Of The Queue’, which was released as part of their upcoming ‘Fabric Presents…’ mix. Mike Skinner’s most recent record ‘The Darker The Shadow, The Brighter The Light’ dropped last October.