Kaiser Chiefs
Kaiser Chiefs
Ricky - Vocals
Whitey - Guitar
Peanut - keyboards
Simon - Bass
Nick - Drums
Kaiser Chiefs formed up in Leeds in the summer of 2003 and are now one of the UK's biggest bands. The band features Ricky Wilson (lead vocals, owner of stylish blue and orange suit), Andrew 'Whitey' White (guitar), Simon Rix (bass), Nick 'Peanut' Baines (keyboards and modeller of impressive pork-pie hats) and Nick Hodgson (drums and vocals).
The Kaiser's story actually begins some time before they'd decided to name themselves after a successful South African football team. School friends Simon, Peanut and Nick had been playing together in various bands since the age of 15 before spying art school graduate and restless-ball-of-energy Ricky singing with a Rolling Stones tribute band. After immersing themselves in the buzzing Leeds scene, Ricky and Nick started hosting legendary electro-punk bash Pigs, which pulls in an assortment of stylish freaks each month. It's a night that's passed into Leeds folklore: wild-eyed regulars still recount tales of stage invasions, drunkenness and how the bouncers banned Nick from finishing a night with Motorhead’s 'Ace Of Spades' because it was inciting too much carnage (it's a rule they swiftly broke).
(Biography by B Unique)
