Rise of the 'People's Band' ; Pop Kasabian Brixton Academy .....

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ONE hardly has to be the unlikely lovechild of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple to deduce that something special was happening last night: touts buying not selling; a jam-packed, fervid Brixton Academy; a sense of occasion and, long after Kasabian had fled the stage following their solitary encore, the surreal experience of a crowd marching onto the streets of South London chanting the hook to the evening's farewell salute, L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever).

Sometimes a band is so full of selfbelief that - despite their limitations - their rise is unstoppable and, by some peculiar osmosis, that self-belief transfers to the mainstream.

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Rise of the 'People's Band' ; Pop Kasabian Brixton Academy .....

Such a band is Kasabian, whose confidence never mutated into hubris and who succeeded via an appealing mi...

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