For the guitarist in arguably Britain’s biggest band, Serge Pizzorno is a surprisingly soft-spoken individual.

His bullishness regarding Kasabian however, is as loud as ever.

“Nothing fazes us in the band, we just want people to have a good night out and be taken away from everything else for a few hours” he says, as the four-piece prepare to play the SECC in Glasgow tonight.

The Glasgow show is part of a UK-wide trek around some of the country’s biggest venues, the sort of soulless locales that can crush the spirit of bands who find themselves unable to handle the jump in size.

Serge, however, insists that he and the rest of the Leicester quartet thrive on larger shows, especially in Scotland..

“It’s nice to play in front of a lot of people, because when everyone is singing together it just sounds huge. It does suit our band, as our music warrants that kind of communal sing-a-long and our shows are always just rock ’n’ roll raves, really.

“And Glasgow is where we’ve had our most memorable shows. It’s always really exciting there – we’ve started at King Tut’s and ended up at the SECC. The energy there is like nothing I’ve ever witnessed.”

They’re also promising a stage show to match their ambitions, with Serge promising a stage set-up with a theme of “seeing the world through a looking glass”. Such a topic is inspired by the band’s recent third album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, the record where all their influences, of old-fashioned anthemic rock, dance beats and glam finally clicked into place, following two good but not great albums to begin their career.

Serge sees the record as having cinematic overtones, drawing on the his long-held fascination with film for inspiration.

“Film is as important as music to me, and I love trying to put images to songs” he says. “If you can visualise a bank robbery being done to one of your tunes, then you know you’ve written a good song. If music can paint you a mental picture, that’s a good sign.

“I was watching stuff like El Topo, or the Holy Mountain, by Alejandro Jodorowsky, and although it didn’t have a direct influence on the music, it’s still stuff I’m really into.”

There may be further filming in Kasabian’s future. A recent comment by Guy Ritchie suggested the Rock N Rolla and Lock, Stock &Two Smoking Barrels director fancies the idea of Kasabian soundtracking a future movie of his, a prospect Serge hopes comes to fruition.

“We’ve got a mutual friend, and time permitting I’d love to do it. I’ve always wanted to do something like a soundtrack. We’ll probably meet up for a beer and see what happens.”

Clearly, Kasabian are a band who do not see any boundaries they won’t cross in the future. While they have often been labelled as mouthy lad-rock braggarts – due to the football terrace nature of some of their songs, the fact they palled around with Oasis, and their dismissive attitude of nearly every other band around –Serge is a more measured conversationalist, albeit one still prone to grandiose claims.

“I really don’t like indie music, I can’t stand all that indie production. I prefer soul and R’n’B,” he says.

Such a dislike of the indie scene led Kasabian to work with noted hip-hop producer Dan The Automator on West Ryder. It’s a collaboration that Serge feels made sense, as the band’s interest in other genres has never been hidden.

“We’ve always had a lot of electro influences, especially on the first album and he’s the sort of person you want for certain types of records. I’d already done a lot of work on the songs at home in Leicester, so the skeletons were all done – we just needed to add some organs and flesh to everything. It was quite an easy and peaceful atmosphere in the studio.”

The results were certainly impressive on West Ryder. Shortly after its release the quartet then joined Oasis on their string of summer stadium shows across the UK, but Serge claims the Gallagher brothers break-up caught him off-guard.

“They meant the world to me. But I’m just thankful for the incredible music they made. They were just the way they always were on tour, I didn’t see any differences with them at all that suggested they’d actually split up.”

But Serge is already looking beyond West Ryder, to the group’s future.

“I’m very excited over where we might go next and I’ve already got a few ideas about what to do. As long as you give the people good tunes, they’ll come with you.”

Kasabian play the SECC in Glasgow tonight.