Kasabian Out of Quarantine After Swine Flu Scare
- Posted on Aug 13th 2009 11:00AM by Dan Reilly
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The term "lead vocalist syndrome" was invented to describe how singers often have a large ego, which almost always affects their band negatively. The members of Kasabian could sort of relate after having their lives disrupted because of an issue that started with their frontman. Only in this instance, the disease was thought to be swine flu, not delusions of grandeur. According to UK paper the Sun, the Leicester lads were quarantined in a Sydney, Australia hotel after singer Tom Meighan was diagnosed with H1N1 virus. Apparently, it was thought he picked it up somewhere after a gig in Japan and was taken to a hospital after the symptoms flared up. The rest of the band then fell ill and were ordered to stay in their rooms until they're healthy.
"We're all sick as dogs, man. It's pretty terrible," guitarist Sergio Pizzorno told the Sun. It's a bit of a virus that we picked up in Japan. It's so tough. I am confined to my hotel room and I look out and see the Opera House and the harbour and so want to be out there in it all ... The doctor says it will take a couple of days and we need to stay in our rooms and chill."
Luckily, the band, which is currently touring behinds its third album 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum,' has been given "the all clear" from doctors, according to their publicist. As it turns out, they were sick but not with the deadly, headline-hogging virus. Although Kasabian was forced to cancel its Australian gigs, they should be fine to play two concerts in Malaysia Saturday and Sunday.
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