“If we’re really honest with ourselves, we have to admit that urban music is where the politics are nowadays. There are still political singer-songwriters, but no one you could compare to The Clash, or even the Manics. When it’s all down to Kasabian, it’s like…

Kasabian have an import role to play: they are there to remind us how true Spinal Tap was. I’m not a fan, but if you read their interviews as if it was dialogue from Spinal Tap, it’s very entertaining. Especially the stuff Sergio [Pizzorno] says – he’s [frontman] Nigel Tufnel. Particularly with the album title, ’48:13′. I’m guessing that’s how long the record is. Someone sent them a CD that just said ‘Kasabian’, and they didn’t know what else to put on it, ‘cos they hadn’t bothered to think up any fucking titles, so they just put the time on and Serge said ‘that is genius’.”

(Billy Bragg im NME über Kasabian)

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