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Serge Pizzorno of Kasabian on Starbucks' tax scandal: 'If we all got together we could destroy the brand'

Kasabian guitarist Serge Pizzorno has hit out at coffee giant Starbucks after its UK tax scandal was unveiled. 

Back in 2012, it was revealed that the UK edition of the company paid only £8.6 million in taxes despite boasting earnings of over £3 billion in the country. 

Speaking to the NME, Pizzorno mused that it would only take a bit of people power to take down the company and if everyone clubbed together and boycotted the coffee chain it would just go bust:

"If you stopped and thought about how much power we've got... With the whole Starbucks tax-evasion thing, if we all got together and said, 'Right, no one go to Starbucks,' it would only take a week to destroy a company."

In the same interview, Kasabian also spoke about their forthcoming new album, which is due to be released later this year, and confessed that it's "beyond leftfield": "It’s a dangerous, dangerous, dangerous, dangerous drug we’ve created. I can’t get my head round it. It’s rock ‘n’ roll, it’s got the rawness and it’s edgy, but we’ve gone back to electronica and we’ve gone beyond leftfield. What else can we do? It’s a silver bullet mate. It’s fantastic."

 

 

 

 

 

Watch a new interview with Kasabian on NME TV below: