IT'S A MAD MAD WORLD.

Kasabian take their insane tour to Wembley Arena.

Published: 17th November 2009

There are currently 153 lunatics and idiots in the United Kingdom. That was the message portrayed on the screens at Wembley Arena this weekend. Reading the following slide would give you a more detailed background account on a handful of these unstable citizens which are currently under close surveillance behind asylums doors across the country.

Although from tonight’s crowd it seems that the 153 loons escaped last night and plotted a journey to a North London music venue to celebrate their first night of freedom. Either that or we are at a Kasabain gig packed with pissed up ex-Gallagher worshippers waiting for four Sheffield lads to play one of their three sold out concerts on a stage which replicates the cover of their third album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

As the bell chimes the madness in the arena reaches Stadium fever pitch. A black curtain is manually pulled back by two stage crew members, all of which are wearing white coats to blend in with the asylum surroundings.

A picture frame projected around the stage will metamorphose into various bordering backgrounds over the following ninety or so minutes captivating the new leaders of Rock and Roll of Oasis anno domini.

Right out in front the set list starts with Underdog and Where Did All The Love Go? Both tracks patients from their Lunatic Asylum album. Shoot The Runner sees searchlight around the venue making sure anybody with an ounce of common sense doesn't escape.

Cut Off tells the familiar tale of Johnny the scientist hooked on LSD before hallucinating into a rendition of Grandmaster Flash's 'The Message' with the added assistant of the lead singer from tonight’s first support band (Dark Horses) Lisa Elle.

Thick As Thieves, another track from the latest album is given an airing before Empire takes us back to the days of 2006 when the Sheffield lads were laying foundations for their world domination role which will indefinably continue to grow.

Tom dedicates Ladies and Gentleman to all the fathers in the audience before the band unleash 'Fire' and 'Club Foot'; their own born and bred number which they have raised to colossus anthem standard since Kasabain's birth back in 2004.

The black curtain is pulled, yet the end is not yet nigh. The appearance of another weirdo takes to the stage holding heads of mannequins which will be thrown and kicked out to the crowd physicos'. Further analysis confirms this stranger as Noel Fielding, friend of the band. A second unemployed comrade sharing the same Christian name is sadly absent from tonight’s guest list.

Playing out with Vvlad The Impaler, Stuntman and the legendry closing track of L.S.F. Kasabain's show was bloody incredible and only a lunatic or an idiot would have missed it!

THE SET LIST...

Julie & The Mothman
Underdog
Where Did All The Love Go?  
Swarfiga
Shoot The Runner  
Cutt Off  
Pinch Roller  
West Ryder Silver Bullet
Thick As Thieves  
Take Aim  
Empire
I.D.  
Ladies And Gentlemen (Roll The Dice)  
Processed Beats
Fire
The Doberman  
Fast Fuse  
Club Foot  
Vlad The Impaler  
Stuntman  
L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)