kaiser chiefs, what do you reckon?

I'd just like to say I saw them in Cambridge on Tuesday night and they were fab The singer crowd surfed during "I Predict A Riot" and everything.

I'm probably a luddite, but I canne actually say I like The Kaisers very much.. Got the album, tried and tried.. It just didn't grow on me... It is maybe a little bit TOO throwaway I tells thee

I bet they are nice blokes though! Plus they have a good sense of humour I guess.. Just a little bit too safe...

there were on popworld recently and the two guys - singer plus one - were very funny. compared to the other guests - the others - who were try hard and rather embarassing, t'chiefs seemed to just be enjoying it all. much like franz were last year. good for them!

I thought they were very funny on Popworld.. Especially when one of them got into a jumpsuit and pretended to be Liam Gallagher!

The Others are knobs.... I mean, what's with the Robert Smith haircut!!!!!

It is nice to see rockstars being playful, rather than up their own asses .. Plus is it me or does the lead singer always wear that blue jacket!! poo....

Yeah, The Others

Ended up standing behind yer man with the ‘I’m so alterative’ Robert Smith haircut during the Gravenhurst gig on the Camden Crawl. At one point I whistled to show my appreciation of the band (don't worry, it wasn't a quiet bit) and he turned round and gave me what I can only describe as 'a look'. It was in a pub so there was a general noise of conversation anyway; at least I was watching the band. Maybe I'd messed up his hair. We spent the rest of the gig stood either side of him trying to whistle but mainly breaking into laughter, which meant we just blew in his ear quite a lot.

My friend, to her credit, also moved within earshot and proclaimed 'you know what I love about all these bands? The lack of pretension'.

Anyway, rant over. Oh My God is getting right on my nerves but really like I Predict a Riot - reminds me of when I lived in Leeds. Haven't heard the album though.

Is it the bloke from the Others that's always ranting on about how terrible middle class people are?

yep.

Ironic that, as Dominic Masters left a £32,000 per year job in marketing to form The Others... I would say that that wage packet makes him rather middle class..

The Others used to rehearse where my band do and they were arrogant t*ssers to the staff of the place and everyone else they came in contact with...

Not to mention they are rubbish.

The other day I switched on the telly and saw The Khyber Chiefs performing a song called "Everything is average nowadays". I'm still racking my brains trying to work out whether it was a brilliant piece of self-deprecating humour or a stunning lack of self-awareness.

Thanks badger, I was meaning to dig out this thread after watching that Electric Proms show on Friday. The Khazi Cheese playing with David Arnold and his orchestra, sounding exactly like the Khazi Cheese. It's the worst thing I've seen on tv since last year's Electric Proms, when Kasabian were the lucky winners of a bored string section. Did we learn nothing from the errors of the Britpop wars*? String sections will not make a song sound good just like that. Still, as Lisa said, 'at least it's not Bloc Party'. Saturday night's Electric Proms: Bloc Party with a bored choir. Who has these crazy ideas? Complete waste of time.




*obviously the KCs learnt everything from the Britpop wars. I feel like sending their manager a copy of John Harris 'The Last Party'.

Having to 'learn' 'I Predict A Riot' triggered a dormant memory in my mind, and the dim realisation that I may once have been complimentary towards this band once in the past.

Now, if I get a veto, do I use it on this or 'Sex on Fire'?

Reviving 7-year old threads on a barely-used messageboard, what have my Sundays become?

It's made me come back on here and read loads of old stuff.

Those were the days. Talking a load of bollocks. It's made me quite nostalgic, sniff!

sorry about that.

I still think the first album's OK. Obviously it's been diminishing returns from then on, to the point where it's hard to conceive that they were ever any good really.

But even at their most mediocre and forgettable, the Kaiser Chiefs aren't in the some War Crimes league as Sex On Fire - one of the worst songs ever written IMO.

I'm no big fan of KOL but I love Sex On Fire... it's one of the few songs released in the naughties that represents idiotic, brainless male sexual urges. The only other examples I can think of are Lie Down Here And Be My Girl by Nick Cave and Please Please Please by McFly.