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ars. tour in almos t two ye ar wit h re-emergence this ye ture Is a new album – ‘ The Fu ahead Medieval’. We catch up ll this Port smouth’s Guildha going. .. mon th to see how it ’s HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE BAND TO ANYONE NEW TO KAISER CHIEFS?
We’re in the line of the great British bands. SO YOU RETURNED FROM YOUR TWO YEAR HIATUS THIS YEAR, HOW HAS 2011 TREATED YOU?
2011 was good. We all had a great time working out how we were gonna release the album and loved the fact that it came off. The night before the album was released was genuinely exciting and it felt the same as when we released the first record, which was sort of the point; to do something new, to make things exciting again. After that we’ve played some great gigs all over the world. Glastonbury was a highlight as was Splendour in Australia; our massive homecoming shows in Leeds and more recently we did our most extensive tour of Europe ever, so all in all, another year of good times. WHY DID YOU TAKE THE BREAK? WHAT WERE YOU DOING DURING THAT TIME?
We toured or were writing/recording all the time from 2004 to 2009. When you do that, I think you start taking things for granted and it was great to be at home for a while, sit back, take it all in and work out what to do next. As everyone knows now we’re hardly idle to the time off. After Off With Their Heads we toured for another year then had some time off and pretty soon got into writing and recording the 25 tracks that got released in various ways around The Future Is Medieval album. That was a lot of fun. We were able to get together and make music and then go off and do other things before coming back to it again. There was no real deadline. Just when it was finished and the website was designed we could hit the button and stick it out for everyone to enjoy. We loved that. We also liked that it was our little secret. As things progressed the number of people who needed to know got bigger and bigger but we were massively impressed that the whole thing didn’t leak before the day. Check out our website for even more... www.mayhemmagazine.co.uk
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