Kasabian and Kaisers "best of friends"

Kasabian have insisted they are not fighting with the Kaiser Chiefs.

Reports have circulated that the band's frontman Tom Meighan threatened counterpart Ricky Wilson at Dublin's Oxegen festival earlier in the month. But Meighan has laughed off the rumours, saying: "That's absolute rubbish. I know Ricky Wilson well and it really hurts. We get on. When people quote me saying I'm going to smash his face in, that's wrong because I didn't say that.

"I was asked what I thought of comments he apparently made and I said I would be disappointed if he had said that. Ricky is a nice guy and we bump into the Kaiser Chiefs on tour all the time, just like we bump into a whole bunch of bands on the road. "It's horrible when stories are blown out of proportion. Ricky will know those quotes are rubbish. People just want to create a feud that doesn't exist."