Kasabian Set To Play Baftas Following BRIT Awards Snub

They might have been ignored in the nominations for The BRIT Awards this year, but Kasabian won't be sobbing into their beer on the sofa for the whole of awards season.

Instead the anthemic rockers will be opening the show at Britain's biggest annual movie awards - the Baftas - having been "poached" by the organisers.

Guitarist Serge Pizzorno told The Sun: "It's a huge honour to open the Baftas because we're all such great film fans. It'll be a strange old show playing in front of a load of penguins but it's going to be great.

"We're going to start the night off with a huge explosion. We're going to play everything twice as loud. Half the people there won't have a clue what is going on."

And he's clearly still a bit sore at the band being snubbed by the BRITs after a year in which they had headlined the Glastonbury Festival and topped the charts.

"It's a conspiracy," he fumed. "They're trying to shut rock 'n' roll out of it. What sort of message does that send to working class rock 'n' roll bands, which the industry is in dire need of?

"Kasabian couldn’t have done any more last year. It's bulls**t really."

Baftas show producer Katherine Allen said: "Kasabian are the biggest rock band of the year and they headlined Glasto. What better way to kick off the Baftas with a bang? We wanted something totally different this year."

The band will be following in the footsteps of Sir Tom Jones, Tinie Tempah and Paloma Faith when they open the show at the Royal Opera House in London on 8 February.