{"id":63574,"date":"2020-07-06T12:57:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T11:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=63574"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:57:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T11:57:40","slug":"tom-meighan-leaves-kasabian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/07\/tom-meighan-leaves-kasabian\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Meighan Leaves Kasabian"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In a statement released today on the band\u2019s Twitter account, Kasabian announced the departure of singer Tom Meighan.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The simple statement was as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTom 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.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KasabianHQ (@KasabianHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KasabianHQ\/status\/1280094179100680193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement released today on the band\u2019s Twitter account, Kasabian announced the departure of singer Tom Meighan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,12133],"tags":[2945,25597],"class_list":["post-63574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-news","tag-kasabian","tag-tom-meighan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-gxo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56647,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/10\/kasabian-announce-massive-hometown-show-solstice-ii-at-leicesters-victoria-park-june-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":63574,"position":0},"title":"Kasabian Announce Massive Hometown Show &#8216;Solstice II&#8217; At Leicester&#8217;s Victoria Park June 2020","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"22\/10\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"What promises to be one of the highlights of 2020, Kasabian have announced a massive hometown show at Leicester\u2019s Victoria Park for June 20th, six years on from their triumphant first show at the venue. 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