Settling into life in rock’n’roll

Kasabian have mellowed, setting aside the partying for families and professionalism on the road, but they’re still wild about the music, says Ed Power

TOM MEIGHAN is an old school rock star, of a sort they were supposed to have stopped making. “I think someone must have slipped something in my milk,” says the Kasabian frontman. “I’ve had rock’n’roll in my DNA since I was a kid. Music is what I was born to do. I love every minute of it.”

This isn’t bravado. Meighan has had outrageous moments. Backstage at Oxegen, a few years ago, he allegedly came close to blows with members of Kaiser Chiefs. There have been feuds with the American emo band, My Chemical Romance, and soppy Britrockers, Keane, whose singer “lived on a diet of pies,” Meighan said.