When you come from a city like Leicester, there’s little to do except listen to music, watch football and get drunk. Or, if you’re Kasabian, attend raves with a fervour bordering on the obsessional before deciding that you’d be better off making your own music. As singer Tom Meighan puts it: “Why be in a band? Because it’s the only thing I could do.”

Attending a party at a farmhouse in Rutland, the band got friendly with the farmer’s son and decided to stay. In the splendid isolation of the former textile mill, Kasabian created a studio and packed it with analogue synthesisers and vintage guitars before taking the first tentative steps towards writing their own material.

Tasking their cues from the cocksure swagger of Oasis and the pulsing beats of the rave scene that inspired them, Kasabian set about forging a new brand of rock’n’roll for the 21st Century. Rather than taking their music to the masses, Kasabian brought the masses to the music by holding a series of raves and mini-festivals at their farmland base camp.

It wasn’t long before Kasabian were snapped up and their ascent from support band to festival headlining act has been nothing short of breathtaking. Storming the charts with the likes of "Club Foot", "LSF" and "Processed Beats" , their eponymous debut sounds more like a greatest hits album than a first effort.

What’s more encouraging is the fact that this is only the beginning!

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