Meighan with Kasabian in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2015 – photo by Turn Up The Volume
TOM MEIGHAN, former voice/face of British rockers Kasabian who
was fired back in 2020, released his first solo LP The Reckoning last
year and started to tour.
Last June he performed at the legendary Isle Of Wight.
Here’s a spectacular rendition of Kasabian‘s 2009 hit FIRE (more than 178 million streams on Spotify).
The song is about a spectacular event at Montreux‘s lake, where the by now
legendary Montreux Jazz Festival (actually more rock than jazz) took place.
It referred to the smoke from the fire that destroyed the city’s casino, spreading
over Lake Geneva. The members ofDeep Purple who played at the festival saw it
happen from their hotel window.
Roger Glover (bassist) said at the time: “It was probably the biggest fire I’d ever seen up to that point and probably ever seen in my life. It was a huge building. I remember there was very little panic getting out, because it didn’t seem like much of a fire at first. But, when it caught, it went up like a fireworks display.”
The Swiss police named Zdeněk Špička, a Czechoslovak refugee
as a suspect in the case, but he fled Switzerland shortly after.
The band played again at this year’s 2024 edition and,
of course, performed the classic again.
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile, yeah
We didn’t have much time now
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water,
A fire in the sky
(Smoke) on the water, you guys are great
They burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
Funky Claude was running in and out
He was pulling kids out the ground now
When it all was over
Find another place
Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race
Smoke on the water,
A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water Burn it down
Canadian glam star SHAUN TWAIN rocked out big time at Glastonbury Festival (UK)
last month. So did her thousands of fans, who sang her stellar 1997 hit Man! I Feel
Like A Woman! (more thn 590 million streams on Spotify) along, word by word.
On 5 July 1969, 55 years ago today, THE ROLLING STONES organized a free outdoor festival in Hyde Park, London to introduce new guitarist Mick Taylor. But as co-founder and highly influential ex-member Brian Jones died two days before, the show became a tribute for him. From that historical event, attended by about 300.000 people, here’s
one of the filthiest and hottest firecrackers the band ever wrote HONKY TONK WOMAN.
