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Scotsman
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Kaiser Chiefs, Edinburgh review: 'Employment doesn't want for hits'
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... 'I Predict a Riot the second song there,' noted Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson early on at the first of this year's Edinburgh Castle concerts. It's a matter-of-fact statement, but it betrayed a little about the format of the gig. For this tour, the Leeds indie contingent are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 2005 debut album Employment by playing it in full, and something in Wilson's tone seemed to say, 'yeah, we know the set's just opened on a high with two of our most entertaining songs – Everyday I Love You Less and Less and …Riot – but let's see how the rest of it goes'. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Frontman Ricky Wilson and Kaiser Chiefs (Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty) Employment doesn't want for hits; the two openers were followed up immediately by the more reflective Modern Way and soon after by the strident Oh My God. The gap in intention between programming an album and programming a live setlist soon became apparent, though. In the latter context, the record's second half meandered, through the middling glam of Saturday Night to the Syd Barrett-flavoured Britpop of What Did I Ever Give You? 'That one isn't very well known, but you enjoyed it, right?' enquired the hopeful Wilson. On they ploughed through the deliberately ramshackle Time Honoured Tradition, the middling grunge of Caroline, Yes, the noisy psychedelia of Team Mate and the enjoyably rowdy Take My Temperature, complete with its amusingly awful knock-off Jurassic Park video. Perhaps the most entertaining part of this section was Andrew White's guitar malfunction, which sent sharp-witted former The Voice judge Wilson into a few minutes of time-filling stand-up, and then an entertainingly improvised song about Edinburgh. 'And people say we just go ohhh nanananana,' laughed Wilson, having stylishly gotten away with it. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad
Perth Now
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Ricky Wilson 'didn't appreciate the magnitude of Glastonbury'
Ricky Wilson "didn't appreciate the magnitude" of playing Glastonbury before Kaiser Chiefs' first appearance. The Everyday I Love You Less and Less hitmakers performed at Worthy Farm in Somerset for the first time in 2005 following the success of their debut album Employment, and the 47-year-old star has recalled how he hadn't realised how big the group had got in the UK until they took to the Pyramid Stage in front of a huge crowd. He told The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: 'I didn't really appreciate the magnitude of playing there. We were playing so many shows, I was just taking it in my stride. We'd just released Employment and we'd be playing to 200 people in Italy, then 1,000 people in America. 'Then we got back to the UK and we didn't realise how big it had got here until we arrived at Glastonbury and the crowd was mental. Everyone knew the words to our songs. It blew us away.' Kaiser Chiefs will open the Pyramid Stage on Saturday (28.06.25) but Ricky revealed they will be changing up their set from what they have been playing on their current tour. He said: 'We've been on tour with Employment to celebrate the 20th anniversary and at those shows we've been playing it in full. 'We thought about just doing that but we've got too many other songs that would be missed. 'Many people know the songs but we've also got weapons in our arsenal that may be bigger.' The former Voice coach last attended the festival in 2023, where he had a bizarre encounter with actor Andrew Garfield. He recalled: 'I stood in the crowd watching Elton John and then I noticed Andrew Garfield was next to me. 'When Your Song started, our hands happened to brush past each other. I said to Andrew, 'Shall we?'. He nodded and we just held hands. He won't deny it if you ask him." And he had another odd moment during the festival that year. He said: 'I dressed up as Elvis Presley — the full jumpsuit, everything. I was supposed to be doing some songs in Block9 but I got there and didn't bother. 'I was with Leigh Francis and we ended up going to Glastonbury-on-Sea instead and we did the bingo calling twice.'
