Kassidy fans, all couple of hundred of them, must've been wondering why the hitherto little known Scottish indie group had taken to finishing their sets with a cover of the recent fast-rising superstar Lana Del Rey 's 'Video Games.' You can imagine that their lead singer Barrie James O'Neill has probably told everyone over and over again that it's because he's dating the recent UK Chart topping artist, only for them to catch each others' eyes and shake their heads pityingly. Well those pals doubtful of Mr O'Neill will be rueing those non-verbal exchanges as it's been revealed that the front man of Kassiday is in fact dating Del Rey - they kept that quiet!
The UK's Daily Mirror newspaper got the scoop, with a source telling them "They make a very unlikely couple but they seem to work, and bounce really well off one another," something I'm not sure the pair will be happy about being revealed; never mind though, the source continued "Lana was due to appear on stage with the boys and sing Video Games in December when they performed at Glasgow Barrowlands." Unfortunately though this on-stage coming out was scuppered by management and scheduling "She had a hectic promotional schedule, plus her management feared it would be a dead giveaway that she was seeing Barrie James."
Yet apparently we've all been caught napping - they've been dating for six months! "They seem pretty smitten but because Lana's career has taken off so dramatically they're finding it increasingly hard to spend time together," added the apparently pretty knowledgeable source, "As a result they spend a lot of time communicating over Twitter, Facebook and Skype."