Kasabian Have Split Up

A bit... well ok, not really. Their mop-top guitarist/keyboard player Chris Karloff (second from right) has left. Using the age-old 'It's not you it's me' break-up line the band cited "artistic differences". However, according to a source of 'The Sun' there's a whole host of slightly less dull reasons:

"Chris has been clashing with Tom for a long time... After the last tour Chris refused to return to their home town of Leicester with the rest of the band and went to his house in America instead...

That really annoyed the lads and they gave him an ultimatum, 'Come back and work with the rest of us or leave'... Chris was exhausted from the gruelling schedule and didn't want to go through it all over again... But the boys had had enough and gave him the push."

While Karloff "pursue[s] a musical career elsewhere", Kasabian - the secret love-child of Oasis & Stereo MC's - will be off supporting the Rolling Stones in Europe. He must really hate Leicester...