Kasabian bemoan a lack of stock and roll
WHEN Kasabian’s Tom Meighan rocked up at Aviate Global’s London HQ yesterday for a light spot of trading, he was expecting something a bit different than the serenity and relative calm of the trading floor. “I was expecting Wolf of Wall Street,” he told Aviate founder Gary Paulin, much to Paulin’s amusement.
The Glastonbury headliners were in the building ahead of their Shepherd’s Bush gig in aid of War Child – and as Aviate were donating their day’s profits to the same charity, the band went down for a mooch about. “It’s a monster place this, these guys work their nuts off,” Meighan told The Capitalist. “It’s a lot different to the 80s though – a bit tame.” Well, Aviate would have to work pretty hard to seem anything else to an international rock star.
Meanwhile, the Aviate team were enjoying a day’s trading for a very different cause to the norm. “It’s a nice change – you do this job usually for quite selfish reasons so it’s nice to turn that on its head,” Paulin told The Capitalist.