Tag: Kaiser Chiefs

Dec 10th / Kaiser Chiefs / O2 Academy Leeds

On By SkuhtulhuIn Music

Took two days off work to travel down to Leeds – about a 4 1/2 hour drive down the A1/M1 from up here in Edinburgh (roadworks not withstanding) to see one of me and Jenn’s favourite bands – The Kaiser Chiefs!

They of course were immense…as always.

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It was a charity gig for Leeds Children’s Charity and CLIC Sargent that was announced only about a month ago and Jenn was quick off the credit card to book the tickets and an overnight stay at the Leeds Hilton.

The concert also had a great christmas feel with big inflatabe snowmen and we sang christmas carols with a gospel choir who also came out again later to help out with a few ‘Chief’s songs.

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Monkey Ricky

This picture below is from a tweet of one of the Kaisers and you can see me and Jenn (circled)

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Who are that good looking couple there?
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lots of cameras…good being the tallest.

 

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all hail the mighty inflatable snowmen

set list found here

FEB 3rd 2015 / Kaiser Chiefs / Usher Hall – Edinburgh

On By SkuhtulhuIn Music

Jennifer and I don’t have a whole LOT of music taste common ground but the sonic venn diagram DMZ does have some pretty good bands residing in it, one of them being the Kaiser Chiefs. We first saw The Kaisers in Sydney in December 2005 supporting the Foo Fighers. They were relatively unknown then and had just released their first album ( Employment ) – in our opinion they blew the Foo’s away that night and I became a fan.

This year (2015) we’ve seen them twice – the first was February and then at Kendall Calling (subject of a future post!)

Kaiser Chiefs / Edinburgh / Feb 2015
Kaiser Chiefs / Edinburgh / Feb 2015

This was a gig packed with great songs and great energy as the Kaiser’s tend to deliver. It was an awesome night. Ricky Wilson is such a wee ball of energy the whole time bouncing about and spent most of the gig wearing someone’s hat that was thrown out from the audience. He even spent a few songs hanging off the second floor balcony.

This was the setlist.