Kasabian: Lars said we killed Metallica at Glasto

Ahead of their December dates with Dublin and Belfast, Kasabian's Tom Meighan opens up in the Christmas issue of Hot Press about his band's 2014.
Meighan's highlight in a year that included the release of their 48:13 album was their Sunday headline slot on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage.
Reliving the experience, Meighan tells Craig Fitzpatrick:
"To close it on Friday or Saturday is the biggest. For us, anyway, it was looming [large]. It was in the air, like a boxing match. You fuckin' know the countdown's on. Whether people agreed with us playing it or not prior to the fuckin' gig – 'How can they DARE headline?!' and all that – we went there, we had 100,000 people, we took it. It was ours, we claimed it, destroyed it, and everyone went home with new faces. I'm just saying it from my own opinion, but I've never seen Glastonbury go like that. That went fucking insane. We'd come on to 'bumblebeee' and the whole place erupted. Glastonbury doesn't erupt like that, does it?."
The other two Pyramid Stage headliners were Arcade Fire and Metallica, with Meighan claiming that Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich admitted Kasabian stole the weekend.
"I spoke to Lars and he said, 'You killed us in two songs. It was over, it was done.' He was like, 'Fuck you motherfucker!' Emily Eavis [festival co-organiser], bless her, was like 'fuck it, this is insane. This is the craziest I've seen it in years'. I knew we'd do that, I knew it'd happen."
Also on the agenda in the interview – the 10th anniversary of Kasabian's debut album, outlasting their competitors and future ambitions to be as "big as Bono".
Read all about it in the new Hot Press (Coronas cover), out Thursday November 27
Kasabian play 3Arena, Dublin, on December 8 and Belfast's Odyssey on December 9