Kaiser Chiefs have announced an outdoor show tour for 2025 to celebrate 20 years of their debut album ‘Employment’.
The Leeds band will be playing a total of eight huge shows next summer, including an already-announced homecoming show in Leeds, and appearances at Kendal Calling, Boardmasters Festival and Port Talbot’s In It Together.
In addition, they will play outdoor shows in Bristol, Edinburgh, Brighton and at London’s Alexandra Palace Park. Check out the full list below. Tickets for the shows go on sale at 9am on November 8, and you can get yours here.
We’ve seen your comments and we’re excited to announce that we’re adding some more headline shows to celebrate 20 years of Employment. We’re also playing some festivals next year. pic.twitter.com/NQzrvlrfUL
— Kaiser Chiefs (@KaiserChiefs) November 1, 2024
Kaiser Chiefs will play:
MAY 2025
23 – Port Talbot, In It Together
31 – Leeds, Temple Newsam Park
JUNE 2025
26 – Bristol, Bristol Sounds
JULY
4 – Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle
19 – London, Alexandra Palace Park
27 – Brighton, Brighton Beach
31 – Cumbria, Kendal Calling
AUGUST
8 – Newquay, Boardmasters Festival
Speaking about the shows, the band have said: “20 years ago, a brand new song by a brand new band was released. ‘I Predict A Riot’ was the start of something really special for some musicians from Leeds. And the album that followed, ‘Employment’, changed our lives and has soundtracked the lives of millions of others since 2005.”
“In 2025 we are saluting 20 years of that album and everyone is invited. Come celebrate the 2000’s, loving everything less & less and stripey blazers taking over the world. See you all next year.”
Last month, the band spoke to NME about their homecoming gig in Leeds at Temple Newsam Park, their biggest ever headline show.
They will be playing alongside as Razorlight, The Cribs and We Are Scientists, and bassist Simon Rix said he wants the event to be a “time capsule” for the heady days of ‘00s indie.
“Over the last 20 years, people kept telling us, ‘Oh, it’s the first album I bought’ or ‘I bought it when I was this age’, ‘My mum and dad used to listen to it’,” said Rix. “It’s not only the songs, it’s what it means to people and what people were doing at the time. It’s all that stuff that we’re celebrating.”
‘Employment’ was originally released on March 7, 2005, and included the singles ‘Oh My God’, ‘I Predict A Riot’, ‘Everyday I Love You Less and Less’ and ‘Modern Way’. It reached Number Two in the UK charts, won the NME Award for Best Album and was the fourth best-selling album in the UK that year.
