Kaiser Chiefs: The Forum, London
Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 25 October 2008
IN 2005, Kaiser Chiefs squeezed into a pop scene that was fixated on arch art-rockers. Today, the band are a neo-Britpop fixture, seemingly sent to wind up people who equate massive choruses with moronic rabble-rousing.
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