After touring Australia twice this year, Kasabian completed the West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum tour at V Festival over the weekend and will now take a well earned break.

“The gigs are great but we’ve worked so hard,” lead singer Tom Meighan declared to News of the World, but noted that “it’s the travelling that gets you. You have to look after yourself. We have been to so many countries, you forget where you are. It wears you down.”

Guitarists Serge Pizzorno and Chris Edwards are both preparing for fatherhood, but while his bandmates start their own families Meighan plans to “do something musically in between. And I’m thinking of doing a TV documentary – I am just going to see what comes up…. It’s all right for the rest of the band with their families and babies. But I will need to find something to occupy my time. I’ve got to do something. To me a few months will seem like millions of years.”

Despite the possibility of a solo career for Meighan, fans won’t have to wait too long for a now record from the band. Kasabian told NME that the next record will be “completely different to West Ryder ”.

Kasabian guitarist and lead song-writer, Pizzorno explained the band intend to experiment: “We’re going to the studio later this year, we’re just going to experiment… If we get some tunes together and it’s going great we’ll bring them out as soon as we can, but I don’t want to say it’s going to be this or it’s going to be that, we’re going to the studio to experiment… Whatever we do it will be a different album [to West Ryder ]. The few tunes that are floating around are very different.”