I lost my cool over Coldplay

Kaiser Chief Ricky reveals his most chilling encounter

 

 

 

By Dean Marsh, 05/10/2008

 

THEY sang I Predict A Riot—but Kaiser Chief frontman Ricky Wilson couldn’t have predicted what would happen when he met rival band Coldplay . . .

 

For he made a fool of himself by moaning that he was BUSIER than Chris Martin’s hit group.

 

 

Leeds lad Ricky bumped into them at a recording studio. He confessed: “Whenever bands get together, all they do is moan about how busy their touring and promotional schedules are.

 

 

“I did the same when I met Coldplay. I felt such an idiot, because they looked at me like, ‘Oh, you think Kaiser Chiefs are busy? Try being in Coldplay, mate.’

 

 

“They were right, too. After all, Coldplay have got the planet to save as well as selling billions of albums.

 

 

“What have Kaiser Chiefs tried to save? Leeds United. Mind you, the band’s not doing bad this season.”

 

 

Ricky, 30, laughs realising he’s just called his beloved football team a band. “See! I’m that obsessed with music I think everyone’s in a band. It’s tragic.”

 

 

Joking aside, Ricky hates groups whingeing about how tough their lives are. “I’ve got it easy,” he insists. “Kaiser Chiefs are my favourite band in the country, and I’m their singer. How great is that?

 

 

“Making music has never felt like work. It’s a doddle. That’s not because we’re creative geniuses. But the hardest job in the studio is a lot more fun than the easiest day in my last job—folding trousers in a shop.”

 

 

Ricky admits the last album Yours Truly, Angry Mob came across as them carping about being famous. “That was really stupid,” he said. “How pathetic of us. Being famous is f***ing great.”

 

 

There are no such problems on the new album Off With Their Heads, which is out on October 20. The first single, Never Miss A Beat, has already gone down a storm when the band have played it live.

 

 

It features Lily Allen on impromptu backing vocals after she popped in to see Kaisers producer Mark Ronson. Ricky said: “She was really down to earth. Some singers would have demanded to sing a proper verse.”

 

 

Never Miss A Beat is out tomorrow.

 

 

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/entertainment/article38132.ece

you might be busy with your music, Coldplay might be busy with their music,you have your band and you're happy about it and Coldplay have their band and they're happy with it.

 

But please stop getting jealous of each other and start irritating other people because they may or may not do good as you.

 

its a very bad thing that every one in this world faces at their job,its the bloody competition between the people that makes other suffer because of you.:thinking:

I don't see the point of this :thinking:

Nor do I really

what?

is he trying to be funny or somrthing?

I saw nothing that could be interpreted as offending or irritating in his comment. He was just telling a story.

 

 

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Kaiser Chiefs and Coldplay get on so I wouldn't read to much into it. The planet thing was just a joke.

I really don't see the need to tell that in public. So now I'm thinking that it could just be a publicity stunt.

They were probably asked. Every big UK band gets asked about Coldplay, because Coldplay are the biggest and the press like to compare everyone else to them.

Kaiser Chiefs is a good band though.

I've never heard of this band before...

^^ :o

if he's joking then why is he saying that he lost his cool?

 

where is the evidence that he's joking.

 

Well i still think that he's not happy with them.

 

But if he's ok then well i don't mind,because what's the need for me too to mind each and everything and waste a comment of mine posting here.

It's a play on words. Obviously because the band is called Coldplay but also meaning he lost his "cool" as in his credibility...rather than his temper.

 

Hehe I can't explain it well, I know what I mean though. :dunce:

if he's joking then why is he saying that he lost his cool?

 

He doesn't actually say that. That's just the headline of the article - the media seem to be trying to make a story out of nothing there.