00:07I don't think we would have done another record if we hadn't come up with the idea
00:10because we've done it three times and we knew what was going to happen because we've done
00:15it three times and we do the same things and you sit in the studio and some photographer
00:20comes in from some magazine and takes a picture of you sitting at the desk talking about songs
00:23you haven't written yet and it's just pointless so we wanted to just miss all that out and
00:29bring out a record and do it a different way and we were dead excited because it was different
00:35loads of fun. It's quite a brave move I think from us I don't think people were expecting
00:41Kaiser Chiefs to do anything like this so you know we've kind of tried to save the music industry
00:48well we have because it is dying we all know it's dying so we try to do something different
00:54and record companies seem to want to tackle the problem of people illegally downloading
00:59music by trying to make music as cheap as possible but it's just not going to work
01:02it's not a magic price where it'll get to and people go I'll buy it now it's 40p so you've
01:08got to do something different and you know we're not saying we have done anything to say
01:12if we just at least we're trying and not sitting on our arse and moaning about it
01:15I was in London and the morning after we got we flew back from Australia and I was really
01:20jet-lagged I stayed up all night watching the rolling news and it was pretty shocking stuff
01:27to come home soon so the next day nothing to do I had a day off so me and Simon
01:31went and
01:32had a look around carrying brooms helped out clean up no one touched his Rolls Royce though
01:37no yeah the Roll is safe it's funny we I mean if you'll actually listen to the lyrics of
01:42our song and give him a fucking chance then we did fucking predict this we've been singing
01:47about culture and the state of the city centers and the state of society for five years so
01:54yeah I was listening I was reading an article by a moaning old rock star I won't tell you
01:59no I wasn't you you're not that old this guy's at least twice as old and he was moaning
02:05on about bands nowadays don't write songs about like culture and stuff and I was just thinking
02:10what were you listening to?
02:12we haven't played in Leeds for a long time the last gig we did before we went and made
02:16this new record was in Leeds at the Leeds Festival so it's going to be good
02:19doing two nights at Kirkstall Abbey which is weird
02:23not in a tent? no outside outside in a tent 10,000 each night or something
02:28yeah it's going to be good they don't let's play places that aren't ruins already anymore
02:32because we'll blow the bloody roof off
02:36we've got a very big UK tour coming up
02:39yeah lots of theatres it's going to be good again
02:42we were bored of playing those big arenas
02:44oh and all that money
02:47do you know we're just rolling in
02:49so we thought we'd play some little venues
02:50yeah that's how much you can't count it
02:52you can't fit it in your wallet
02:54yeah so we thought we'd play some little places
02:56because that's all we can fill
03:00I'll tell you what there was a real
03:01there was a real trend for loads of bands playing arenas at the end of the 2000s
03:07and it got to a point where you'd be doing this tour
03:10and there'd be Pete Doherty one night in an arena
03:13it was just getting boring I think
03:14it's not Pete Doherty I like it
03:16but you know like it's just
03:17who wants to go to an arena where you
03:19stand around eating hot dogs
03:22yeah
03:22well I do because I get loads of money
03:24you know
03:25yeah we're doing it
03:26so it's a very extensive tour
03:27which is great
03:28it's like erm
03:29like one of the old NME tours
03:30you know we
03:31when we played that
03:32it's like you know
03:32ten dates, fourteen dates
03:34proper big tour of the UK
03:35ok
03:36so
03:36I looked at him
03:37yeah
03:37that was good
03:38run
03:43I'm
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