{"id":442646,"date":"2026-05-11T04:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/442646\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:11:22","slug":"serge-pizzorno-of-kasabian-calling-for-kneecap-to-be-banned-from-festivals-is-completely-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/442646\/","title":{"rendered":"Serge Pizzorno of Kasabian: Calling for Kneecap to be banned from festivals is \u2018completely ridiculous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Kasabian frontman on dealing with imposter syndrome, leaving the wild years behind, and whether Calvin Harris will join him on stage this summer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Serge Pizzorno took over as frontman of Kasabian in 2020. Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dcdc1644-79c8-4f1d-ab1b-05dd931bba0c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Serge Pizzorno took over as frontman of Kasabian in 2020. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If anything would get you over imposter syndrome, you&#8217;d imagine it would be writing one of the festival bangers of the summer. But though the chords for Kasabian&#8217;s new single Great Pretender came unusually easy to Serge Pizzorno \u2013 &#8220;you wish it could be like this every time&#8221; \u2013 his lyrics deal with self doubt that, despite rock stardom, seemingly never goes away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cEveryone can relate to that,\u201d he says. \u201cJust feeling like an imposter. On the surface you\u2019re dealing with it, but deep down you\u2019re going, what is actually going on? When you become a dad, you get home and go, what? [He has two boys, Ennio and Lucio]. And somehow you just pick it up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kasabian frontman on dealing with imposter syndrome, leaving the wild years behind, and whether Calvin Harris will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29575,93,61,60,6992],"class_list":["post-442646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-donal-lynch","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}