Kasabian - US Debut Set For March 8, 2005 - Certified Gold In UK - New York City Show On November 18 at Bowery's Sold Out - Spring 2005 Tours With The Music, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

“Kasabian sound like they’re ready to start fires and kick people’s doors in…You have been warned. They’re on their way.” --NME.

Armed with Top 10 singles, a gold-certified self-titled UK debut that’s sold over 200,000 copies (100,000 in the first two weeks alone) and sell-out shows all over England, Kasabian have now set their sights on the US.

The group will embark on two major tours next Spring coinciding with the release of their album Kasabian on March 8, 2005 here in the States. A month-long national trek supporting The Music is set to kick-off mid-February in NYC and will take Kasabian through cities including Detroit, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles before winding down in Austin for SXSW. The group will return with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in May for another run of US tour dates. Kasabian recently rocked NYC’s Bowery Ballroom with a sold-out show-their first performance ever in the US-on November 18.

Hailing from Leicester, England, Kasabian--Tom Meighan (vocals), Sergio Pizzorno (lead guitar, keyboards), Chris Edwards (bass) and Christopher Karloff (guitar, keyboards)--grew up with a generation of kids raised on Oasis, The Stone Roses, The Chemical Brothers and Prodigy. Combining beats and blazing guitars with political venom, Kasabian’s music champions individuality, following your heart and launching your own personal revolutions. “Our album’s about love and violence, the strongest human emotions you go through,” says Sergio. “There’s a lot of belief and a lot of passion going into the songs. If you’re gonna preach then you’ve got to believe it yourself.”

Kasabian have already released a series of anthemic singles in the UK, each one making a bigger dent in the charts than the last. The Fly describes the UK Top 20 track “Clubfoot” as “an angry, snarling, hyperactive soundclash of distorted baggy, subtle electronica and terrorized beats that, when fused, creates the kind of rush you get drinking four cans of Red Bull at one in the morning” while NME simply says that it’s “nothing short of vicious…” Then there’s the “pop swagger” (Bullit) of “L.S.F.” which went Top 10, “Reason Is Treason”--“a blistering electro-indie track” (Metro) and “Processed Beats”--“possibly tune of the year.” (Sunday Mirror).

The album itself isn’t without critical fans either, garnering 5/5 in Maxim, called “superb” by The Sunday Times and declared “thrilling” by Kerrang!. “Not enough bands are being themselves,” says lead singer Tom. “We want to give people a kick up the arse, give them passion for music again…We make fight tunes, music to gear you up for ripping the music scene to shreds.”