Kasabian confirm lead singer Tom Meighan has QUIT the band and claim ‘personal issues have affected his behaviour for some time’
- Kasabian have been together since 1997 and have earned huge success with songs such as Fire, Processed Beat and Club Foot
- This year, Kasabian were due to play a massive homecoming concert at Leicester’s Victoria Park on June 20, but they had to cancel due to coronavirus
- Tom revealed that the band had been writing tracks for a seventh studio album – their first since 2017’s For Crying Out Loud
- He previously admitted he experienced a meltdown in 2016 after he split from long-term girlfriend Kim James
- In 2018, band member Serge Pizzorno released his debut solo album under the name S.L.P. (Sergio Lorenzo Pizzorno)
Kasabian have confirmed that lead singer Tom Meighan has QUIT the band.
In a statement released on Monday, the band wrote: ‘Tom Meighan is stepping down from Kasabian by mutual consent.
‘Tom has struggled with personal issues that have affected his behaviour for quite some time and now wants to concentrate all his energies on getting his life back on track. We will not be commenting further.’
Shock: Kasabian confirmed on Monday that lead singer Tom Meighan has QUIT the band and claim ‘personal issues have affected his behaviour for some time’ (pictured in 2017)
The statement: The band revealed the shock news on Twitter
39-year-old Tom’s departure was quickly trending on Twitter.
Tom previously told Radio X he experienced a meltdown in 2016 after he split from girlfriend Kim James, with whom he has a daughter Mimi, now six.
Referencing his local team Leicester City’s shock Premier League title win that same year, Tom said: ‘Basically my life changed. I’m by myself. Because I lost myself.
‘In every way 2016 was great for Serge, great for Leicester City, s*** for me. I had to sort my head out. My attitude. Stuff I was doing. People I was associating with. Not bad people.
Huge success: The band have been together since 1997 and are most famous for songs such as Fire, Processed Beat and Club Foot (pictured in 2018)
‘I was the one that was bad, I was in the haze. I was very unhappy, just down. You block it out by just carrying on. I was making myself ill, I ain’t gonna lie, my mind was jolted.’
He added that he wasn’t taking responsibility for what he was going through, calling the experience ‘horrendous.’
This year, Kasabian were due to play a massive homecoming concert at Leicester’s Victoria Park on June 20, but they had to cancel the event due to the coronavirus pandemic.
With their live plans halted, Tom had revealed that the band had been writing tracks for a seventh studio album – their first since 2017’s For Crying Out Loud – and that he’d been penning some ‘autobiographical’ solo songs in lockdown.
In 2018, band member Serge Pizzorno, (right), released his debut solo album under the name S.L.P. (Sergio Lorenzo Pizzorno)
He recently told Sky News: ‘We’re going to try and make a new record as soon as we can but we can’t really do anything while we’re restricted. Serge has been writing songs for Kasabian so it’s all good.’
Discussing his own solo plans, Tom added: ‘I’m writing loads of music at the minute. We’ll see what happens. I’ve got a few cookies in the jar… and they’re not bad, you know.
‘It’s very autobiographical, like the story of my life. It’s kind of… heartbreaking. Well, not heartbreaking, just to the core, you know. Very real.’
Kasabian have been together since 1997 and have earned huge success with songs such as Fire, Processed Beat and Club Foot.
In 2018, band member Serge Pizzorno released his debut solo album under the name S.L.P. (Sergio Lorenzo Pizzorno).
He told The Sun at the time that the band had no plans to go their separate ways.
He said: ‘I am in my band and I love my band. The best way to describe it is, it’s like another planet I can now visit whenever I want. It’s this planet that orbits and I can go there for a bit.’
Kasabian took a break following their 2017 For Crying Out Loud tour.
Serge said: ‘When you get to six albums, you’ve got to keep it clever and make it interesting. Kasabian have had six albums — five No1 albums in a row.
‘We’ve headlined Glastonbury, Leicester Stadium, The O2 and got really big in Europe, Eastern Europe and South America.’
All change: This year, Kasabian were due to play a homecoming concert at Leicester’s Victoria Park on June 20, but they had to cancel the event due to the pandemic (pictured in 2018)
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