Music assessment: Kasabian, Hydro, Glasgow

Lairy electro-rockers Kasabian on Bonfire Evening in Glasgow – what may probably go mistaken? 4 songs in, because the Leicester band’s guitarist and newly-promoted lead vocalist Sergio “Serge” Pizzorno sounded the grizzled fuzztone riff of Underdog, an eerie crimson glow illuminated the Hydro as a concert-goer lit a flare, by some means snuck in previous tight safety, earlier than lobbing it into the guts of the gang.

Somebody may simply have been badly harm. As a substitute, one other brazen fan picked the flare up and brandished it triumphantly aloft, as if he had simply invented hearth, to the worshipful roar of his friends.

Firmly again from the brink, following the sharp and complete exit of frontman Tom Meighan in 2020, the day earlier than he pleaded responsible in courtroom to assaulting his former fiancée, Kasabian have returned to enterprise as traditional – inciting bedlam within the greatest rooms within the land.

Their swift revival has been helped no finish by the truth that an apparent alternative for Meighan was so shut at hand in Pizzorno – the band’s chief, songwriter and typically vocalist.

Rising to the event each sartorially (comically outsized quilted coat; giraffe-like yellow-and-black tracksuit), and by way of his frenetic efficiency model – throwing his wiry 6ft 4in body across the stage, whipping up the gang into ever wilder states of abandon – his ascendancy to frontman has an air of future about it.

Kasabian wore their influences on their sleeves, whether or not that was mega-mixing Daft Punk’s One Extra Time into the outro of You’re In Love With A Psycho or mixing a stripped again Processed Beats with the riff from the Stone Roses’ Waterfall.

Tracks from new album The Alchemist’s Euphoria have been nicely acquired, however the again catalogue huge hitters almost introduced the home down. The melody of LSF (Misplaced Souls Ceaselessly) was bellowed wordlessly by the gang lengthy after the track had ended, earlier than the ultimate pyrotechnic assault – purely figurative this time, fortunately – of the anthemic Hearth.