British hitmakers Kasabian have reportedly recruited their new touring singer. The “Club Foot” performers are said to have hired Rob Harvey to join them on their forthcoming tour.
Previous reports had advised that the group’s guitarist and songwriter Serge Pizzorno was to take up the microphone on their upcoming tour. The group will hit the road this October for their 17 date tour, which will see the band tour for the first time since the departure of former frontman Tom Meighan. A source from the newspaper Daily Mirror has given the following details, “Rob is a good friend of all the Kasabian band members, and they’ve all toured together in the past, and he’s a great frontman so it seems like a no brainer to try him out up front.”
The band’s rumoured new frontman is best known as the singer and founding member of English Alt-Rock band The Music. Harvey formed the group in 2001 and their self-titled debut album was released the following year. The Leeds formed group enjoyed chart success during their decade long career, after four studio albums the band disbanded in 2011. The 38-year-old artist has also penned tracks for various other groups including the 2014 hit “Real Love” for Clean Bandit and Jess Glynne.
Harvey also wrote two songs for The Streets’ fifth studio album Computers and Blues, released on 7th February 2011. Harvey would continue to work with The Streets after his work on the album, Mike Skinner asked Harvey to join the group on the road as their touring guitarist and singer. Harvey and Skinner would also go on to partner on a new project, The D.O.T which saw the pair experiment visually and sonically.
Harvey has reportedly been enlisted to replace the group’s former frontman, Tom Meighan. Meighan sadly had to leave the band after the singer plead guilty to charges stemming from a reported assault. The incident occurred between Meighan and his partner Vikki Ager in July 2020 and the singer was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work. The pair have since put the incident behind them confirming that it was a drunken occurrence, the singer has since attended rehab in aid of his alcohol addiction issues. At the time of the incident, Meighan was also diagnosed with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Ager has spoken out citing Meighan’s condition and an absence of support as the catalyst for his actions. She has also confirmed that the occurrence was not domestic violence.
Meighan has spoken on the incidence stating that the conflict was due to intoxication, “We had too much to drink. I regret everything that happened that night – what I can remember of it. I don’t condone it – it’s horrific. I love my partner to pieces. I was at a boiling point in my life – I didn’t know where things were heading. I was drowning myself with drink because of my problems and things going on around me. We had a fight and I took the brunt for it. I was fully responsible for what happened but we love each other and we’re getting over it.”
The group’s upcoming tour starts on 13th October with a set at the O2 Academy in Glasgow and finishes on 4th November at O2 Academy Birmingham.
Kasabian UK tour
13/10/2021 – O2 Academy Glasgow – Glasgow
14/10 – Liverpool Guild of Students – Liverpool
15/10 – Cardiff University Students’ Union – Cardiff
17/10 – O2 Academy Leeds – Leeds
18/10 – Engine Shed – Lincoln
20/10 – Rock City – Nottingham
21/10 – O2 Academy Sheffield – Sheffield
22/10 – Victoria Warehouse – Manchester
24/10 – Norwich Nick Rayns LCR UEA – Norwich
26/10 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle – Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
27/10 – De Montfort Hall – Leicester
28/10 – O2 Academy Bournemouth – Bournemouth
30/10 – O2 Guildhall Southampton – Southampton
31/10 – O2 Academy Bristol – Bristol
02/11 – O2 Academy Brixton – London
03/11 – O2 Academy Brixton – London
04/11 – O2 Academy Birmingham – Birmingham
Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat
