The little Petey Doherty fangirl in me couldn't resist of seeing one of his recent solo shows in the UK & the only chance due to work/money matters/life in general.....was in Leeds, some northern (everything just above lovely London town is northern, righty? )town I always wanted to visit for unknown reasons....so before booking my flights I just happened to check what else was on in Leeds and stumbled over KASABIAN 
I mean: K-A-S-A-B-I-A-N-!!!!- no question that would lenghten my stay for another 2 days.So there I was now - standing in front of the the box office, waiting to get my ticket....waiting to get to front row.... I spent the day with way to much shopping and already stumbled across Tom like 3 times. He always seemed to be busy on his mobile so I didn't see any chance to stop him to tell him I
him or something 
While waiting at the academy he walked along - AGAIN! AGAIN with phone but intelligent*me! knew there was no good connection so I took everything it takes to jump in front of him Very lovely lad indeed. Unfortunately to two of us are way to big OASIS fan boys/girls to conduct a real conversation with all the things waiting for us this summer. We got totally carried away by the thought of OASIS and were freaking totally freaking out - hope nobody except that security guy saw us 
oi, lovely anyway.Doors were open a bit later - like 20min. Seeing that I only went to the Academy at like 6:30pm (door time was at 7pm) & was first in line I could do with that. I still wonder how I managed to wait DAYS (!!!!) (yes, you read it right here - days) before Bon Jovi gig - don't think i could do this nowadays. 30min with the pub on the other side of the street is fine for me thu.
The ticket business stuff went well & fast - except the lovely behind the counter asked me thrice if I only came over from Germany to see Kasabian (he already did so the night before at Peters gig) but yeah, I'm that desperate. Make what you want out of it. Je n'ais regret or something along that
So I made it easily into front row - with a short call at the bar beforehand - right in front of Serge.
The academy filled up slow. Crowd was pretty relaxed except those 2 guys next to me that got drunk within 15min
Thankfully security threw them out - they actually weren't that unbearable by that but with the expectation of a totally mental crowd I was pleased by that decision.Support came from The Hours. Yep, was nice, nothing too spectacular thu. The crowd seemed to be pretty bored by them thu - at least the singer kept mentioning that the Preston crowd (where Kasabian played the day before) were much better after every other song. I wa daydreaming them away. Lets say they didn't hurt me but it also wouldn't hurt not to see them ever again.
Then....finally..........a waiting time of what felt like, I don't know how long but way tooooo long was over. Kasabian hit the stage. Even Tom sporting that hideous haicut couldn't hold me back from going absolutely mental. That band sheds out something that really can't be described.
They started with a new song - 'Underdog'. Tell you what? It's HUGE!!!! I mean, just everything with this band is described as huge and stuff......but this is really HUGE, MEGA, BEST!!! Freaked me out a bit - not only me thu. The northerner crowds are just awesome. If you want to stand front row there I'd suggest you to better not eat too much beforehand
The new stuff sounds really evolved but still like Kasabian. My first impression is definitively very positive. Can't wait for June, when the album is released. Anyway, back to topic, here's the setlist:Underdog
Shoot The Runner
Reason is Treason
Cutt Off
Fire
Processed Beats
Sun Rise/Light Flies
Me Plus One
U-Boat
Empire
Fast Fuse
The Doberman
Thick As Thieves
Club Foot
Stuntman
You Got The Love
L.S.F.
Seeing it like this it looks like a really short set but in fact it wasn't. They did play for something like 90min. As I mentioned before, the crowd went really mental, so this length was really okay. I tried to film the new stuff - but no chance
People of UK: wth are you doing during L.S.F.????? That was the most craziest song live I've ever seemed to witness. The whole place went nuts for like 10 min. AMAZING!!!1 What a great way to finish a show. Fast Fuse was another highlight for me - the band built it up really immense if you know what I mean. You seem to explode on the inside (is that implode then? ;) ) and all of a sudden it stops & the place went quiet. Amazing! Another highlight for me was The Doberman (? - don't quote me here) , when Tom made the crowd to do some kind of sing-a-long contest. 'My' (the left) side won - not that it was necessarily to mention now.Altogether it was an immensly amazing evening. Kasabian are truely one of the best live acts out there nowadays. Someone that still get me all excited - a not top often happening thing nowadays.
Oh, and before I finish: I'd wish they'd played Apnoea again
A band that sings Oouush can't so wrong - thanks Mr. N. Gallagher to show me this masterpiece of music
