Serge from Kasabian doesn’t care about the Brits snub – he’s good mates with the future

Kasabian’s noise, traditionally a spluttering, laddish tumult of overgrown hormones presented to us as music, has been going strong for more than 15 years now. But sometimes these boys speak words too. Recently, these words included their annual indignation over the Brit awards. Guitarist Sergio Pizzorno counter-snubbed the ceremony for not nominating the band (repeatedly).

“The people in the leather seats are trying to phase this side of the world out,” Pizzorno articulated. He subscribes to the conspiracy school of thought to shore up a somewhat flimsy statement. Noel Gallagher backs him up, barking at the gradual pop infiltration of the ceremony at the expense of independent artists. In the background somewhere, Robbie Williams is juggling all 17 of his Brit awards.

“We’d have no business being in the same category as One Direction anyway,” Pizzorno graciously conceded.

Kasabian are a solid independent band, and always have been. Right? “We’ve never been an indie band… and I sort of f***ing hate indie bands.” Conflictingly, he said this while wearing a scarf indoors.

So what category do they belong in? Not associating with pop nor indie, their music is still too synthetic for rock and roll but too limp for electronic. Drawling is not yet a recognised genre, and swaggering even less so. “My description is ‘future psychedelia’, I’ve not gone too far into it yet.”.

Serge is good mates with the future, saying that Kasabian's music will truly be appreciated in 20 years, by which time their sound, we assume, will be classified as "present-day psychedelia". For now, their perpetual disdain continues to be found in NME most weeks.