Kasabian welcome ‘the most epic’ Glastonbury crowd ahead of homecoming gig in Leicester

Kasabian have . The secret show came just days before their return show in Leicester this weekend.

The rockers made a surprise appearance at Worthy Farm on Saturday (June 29) after the Woodsies set was only billed as TBA to thousands of festival-goers. Rumors had been circulating for hours earlier that the Leicester band would appear at Glastonbury, with the act only confirmed just before they took to the stage.

The set featured a number of the band’s biggest hits, including the anthemic ‘Fire’, which delighted the packed audience. The band have since hailed the crowd for giving it “everything they had”.

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The group, which is now fronted by Serge Pizzorno, also surprised the crowd on the Woodsies stage with a selection of unexpected samples that were interwoven with their hits. Fatboy Slim’s ‘Praise You’ and The Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’ make an appearance, as does Dee-Lite’s even more surprising ‘Groove Is In The Heart’.

It was a set that was a treat for the fans, while Kasabian themselves were also pleased with how it went.

The band said: “Thank you for tearing the place up, locking down the tent! It was the most epic experience of our lives. Each of you gave everything you had. There was something supernatural about that show.”

The band claimed the set and his reaction was why they kept playing, as faith gave them. They will be hoping for a similarly spectacular response on Saturday (July 6) for their epic Summer Solstice II show, which is expected to bring around 35,000 people to Leicester’s Victoria Park.

The concert comes 10 years after Kasabian played their first summer solstice show in Victoria Park. Speaking previously, Serge said: “There’s something special about a 10-year anniversary. It’s an opportunity for kids who were 10, 11 years old who couldn’t come to that show to turn 20 years ago and go, ‘wow, there’s a massive party going on in my downtown town.’

“So you have that first wave generation that used to come to concerts or maybe who were early fans and then a whole new audience that missed out the first time. For us it is amazing. I think that’s going to be so interesting about the show.”

Meanwhile, the band’s former frontman Tom Meighan is also returning to Leicester for his own homecoming gig this month. The singer, who has claimed she will be ‘off the scale’, will headline Aylestone’s Party at the Park, which takes place at Aylestone Park FC on Saturday 20 July.

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