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5 unusual facts about Kaiser Chiefs

A Child of the Jago

The Kaiser Chiefs released the song "Child of the Jago" on their 2012 album The Future Is Medieval.

Papa vs Pretty

Papa vs Pretty toured Australia extensively in 2011, with several of their own headline tours, as well as touring with the Kaiser Chiefs and The Vines.

Since 2007, the year in which Filip Markiewicz produced the album Opinion Lieder in collaboration with drummer Antoine Lejeune, Raftside became a project integrating six rock musicians on stage and played at many festivals where the group had the opportunity to share the stage with Placebo, Kaiser Chiefs and Daft Punk.

Ruston Parva

Leeds based band Kaiser Chiefs originally named themselves Runston Parva after the East Riding of Yorkshire village.

Spin TV

The band Kaiser Chiefs meet their namesakes, South Africa’s exuberant football team Kaizer Chiefs.

Austhorpe

Leeds band the Kaiser Chiefs make a positive reference to him in their hit song "I Predict a Riot".

Baluji Shrivastav

Shrivastav has performed and taught all over the world and has recorded a number of albums with a wide range of contemporary artists including doves (band), Stevie Wonder, Massive Attack, Annie Lennox, Oasis, Kaiser Chiefs, Guy Barker and Andy Sheppard.

Chemistry: The Tour

An audio recording of the Kaiser Chiefs cover "I Predict a Riot was included on the rarities disc of Girls Aloud's greatest hits album The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits. A live recording of "Biology" was an iTunes bonus track.

Club Fandango

Fandango has promoted many then up-and-coming bands such as The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Keane, Death Cab For Cutie, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Razorlight, and The Polyphonic Spree.

Deep Sea Arcade

Deep Sea Arcade regularly headline their own shows in Australia and have toured with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, The Charlatans, Modest Mouse, Megan Washington, Cloud Control, Kaiser Chiefs and Seekae.

Garforth

Some famous residents and ex-residents of Garforth include, Chris Silverwood, Dave Seaman and Andrew White, of the Kaiser Chiefs, John Birch (Rugby League Player for Leeds,England and Great Britain) The town was also the birthplace of Second World War airman, Sir Augustus Walker of the Royal Air Force.

Leas Cliff Hall

Over the years the hall has played host to some of the best music acts around such as The Rolling Stones, T Rex, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Paul Weller, Ozzy Osbourne, Status Quo, Motörhead, Kings of Leon, Stereophonics, Queens of the Stone Age and Kaiser Chiefs.

Loiner

The mock-classical adjectives Leodensian and Leodiensian are sometimes used by some local sports clubs, and the word Leodensian also features in the lyrics of "I Predict a Riot" by Kaiser Chiefs, although in that context it was referring to John Smeaton, a famous 18th-century resident of the city (who resided in Austhorpe Lodge on the site of Austhorpe Primary School) as a founder of Leeds Grammar School, as a Leeds Grammar School leaver is called an Old Leodensian.

Musicool

The show was reworked in a modern day setting, featuring songs such as Hard to Beat (Hard-Fi), Genie in a Bottle (Christina Aguilera) and I Predict a Riot (Kaiser Chiefs).

Pete and the Pirates

The band toured the UK and Europe from September to November 2011, with a headline show at the Scala in London on 4 October and a 9,000 capacity show with Kaiser Chiefs at Kirkstall Abbey on 10 September.

School of Geography, University of Leeds

Alumni include: Piers Sellers, NASA astronaut, Simon Rix, bassist of Leeds based band the Kaiser Chiefs, Jon Hammond, who won a gold in the men's 50m shooting at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, Martine Croxall, BBC News Reader and the most Reverend Alan Harper, Archbishop of Armagh (awarded an OBE for services to conservation).