Stereoboard Tour of the Week – Kaiser Chiefs - Tickets On Sale Friday 9am
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Written by Rob Sleigh
Having successfully predicted the recent spate of riots, Leeds rockers The Kaiser Chiefs will follow-up their winning insightfulness with an extensive tour, featuring no less than 20 whole dates around the country, in early 2012. After the innovative release of their fourth album ‘The Future is Medieval’ earlier this year and next month’s homecoming shows in Leeds, the five-piece will hit the road in January and spend an entire month trekking up and down the UK.
Speaking to NME.com at the weekend’s V Festival, where the group played alongside Arctic Monkeys and Plan B, guitarist Andrew ‘Whitey’ White claimed that his band had foreseen the country’s recent disturbances in their hit single from 2005: “It's funny, if you listen to our lyrics and give it a fucking chance, we did predict this. We sing about culture and the state of city centres and the state of society for five years.”
After a three-year break from recording, Kaiser Chiefs recently returned to our stereos with their fourth album ‘The Future is Medieval’, the follow-up to 2008’s ‘Off With Their Heads’. However, this time around, the band decided to bring out an album with a difference. Rather than putting the record together themselves and deciding which tracks to include on it, they picked 20 songs that fans could then choose from to build their own Kaiser Chiefs album. Through the band’s website, people were able to select and arrange their 10 favourite tracks from those on offer, customize the artwork to their liking and purchase their very own version of the album. Even better than that, if others agreed with your creation enough to buy it themselves, rather than putting together their own adaptation, you earned yourself an entire quid for your efforts with every copy sold. Fortunately, for the more indecisive and slightly less imaginative among us, the band eventually got around to picking 13 of the tracks themselves and putting together an official release of the album.
So, those of you that chose to go for the more exciting option following the release of ‘The Future is Medieval’ will finally be able to find out which of your selected tracks will feature in future Kaiser Chiefs’ setlists. Alternatively, if you haven’t yet got around to picking up the band’s latest album – of your own making or otherwise – but you still want to catch some of your earlier favourites, performed at one of the Kaiser Chiefs’ renowned live performances, then you’re bound to get the chance when the band visit a town near you in the new year. And with 20 dates on offer, you’re unlikely to have to travel far.
In the meantime, the band are to release a new single entitled ‘Man on Mars’ - the latest to be taken from ‘The Future is Medieval’ following June’s ‘Little Shocks’ – next week to keep us amused during the relatively short wait before next year’s tour. And for your viewing pleasure, you can watch the video below…
Kaiser Chiefs UK & Ireland Tour Dates are as follows:
Sat September 10th 2011 - Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds
Sun September 11th 2011 - Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds
Fri January 27th 2012 - Venue Cymru, Llandudno
Sat January 28th 2012 - Reading Hexagon, Reading
Sun January 29th 2012 - Cliffs Pavilion, Southend
Thu February 2nd 2012 - Assembly Rooms Derby, Derby
Fri February 3rd 2012 - O2 Academy Birmingham, Birmingham
Sat February 4th 2012 - Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth
Mon February 6th 2012 - Norwich U.E.A., Norwich
Tue February 7th 2012 - Engine Shed, Lincoln
Thu February 9th 2012 - HMV Picture House, Edinburgh
Fri February 10th 2012 - O2 Academy Glasgow, Glasgow
Sat February 11th 2012 - Empress Ballroom, Blackpool
Mon February 13th 2012 - O2 Academy Sheffield, Sheffield
Tue February 14th 2012 - O2 Academy Newcastle, Newcastle
Wed February 15th 2012 - Grimsby Auditorium, Grimsby
Fri February 17th 2012 - Manchester Academy, Manchester
Sun February 19th 2012 - Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
Thu February 23rd 2012 - HMV Hammersmith Apollo, London
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