Don’t like us? You’ll have to lump us
CHRIS EDWARDS doesn’t care what the haters think. In fact, Kasabian’s bass player rather enjoys splitting opinion down the middle. “We don’t want to be Coldplay, one of those bands that make elevator music. If we wanted everyone to like us we’d be writing songs like Chris Martin does — they’re not going to change the world. You can’t hate ’em, can’t love ’em. We would rather push boundaries.”
Debate has raged since Kasabian were unveiled as headliners of this year’s Glastonbury festival in the UK. To detractors they’re one of the worst things to befall rock and roll in the past decade: Oasis minus the wit and fractious comedy. Billy Bragg, the laureate of British protest folk, spoke for many recently in dismissing Kasabian as the real life equivalent of spoof headbangers Spinal Tap.
