#source: nme

[tayfabe75]

"I was talking to Paul Buchanan, about this right, the guy from The Blue Nile, because I'm obsessed with him and then he heard that we were obsessed and we met up and we spoke about music, he's a fucking legend. Erm, people just assume that every single line is a… is a deeply perfect… A lot of it is… a lot of those things are just ideas. Like Change of Heart for example, I got a phone call off my ex-girlfriend just going fucking nuts saying like, 'How dare you say those kind of things,' and she just basically joined the dots - she'd just taken that and thought, 'well that means that and that means that,' if you've got loads of subtext of like, a relationship you're going to do that, and I kind of had to be a bit like, 'It's not even really about you, sorry. Sorry! And it wasn't cheating but we haven't been together for you and really about someone else, sorry…'"

December 2, 2016: When asked which song got him into the most trouble, Matty describes an angry phone he received from an ex. (source)

[mum-for-da-sons]

Delta sweaty,, I love you already,, this description makes me wanna kiss my fingers like an Italian chef 

[rickywilson]

Kaiser Chiefs are not interested in groupies. “Sometimes you might see the odd banner in the crowd that says, like, ‘Nice eyes!'”, Ricky Wilson explains. “And when we get back downstairs after a gig in our dressing room, we’ll crack open a bottle of beer and talk about someone in the audience we saw and say, ‘Didn’t she have nice hair?'”

30 Things Yoh Didn’t Know About Kaiser Chiefs

[tayfabe75]

"One of my heroes, Brian Eno, he kind of splits art into kind of two categories, like, cowboys and farmers. And farmers like to cultivate their thing and keep it the same, and cowboys like to kind of go out and find new passages. And I think that there's so many incredibly, wonderfully talented people in this room, and I don't have any advice 'cause I'm really scared and I feel really small. But my only advice would be, like, just be a cowboy. Be a cowboy."

February 12, 2020: The 1975 win the Innovation Award at NME Awards, and in his acceptance speech, Matty encourages the audience to 'be a cowboy'. (source)2020 nme awards

[tayfabe75]

"'She Lays Down' is about my mum. It doesn't get much more personal than that. I'm sure my mum won't mind me saying this, but she told me a story when I was about 17, she was so gripped by post-natal depression that she was coming into my room when I was a couple of months old, lying on the floor and actively trying to love me. How fucking brutal is that? That is brutal – especially considering how close me and my mum are. We are like, insanely close. That resonated with me so much, I think that writing music for me is such a catharsis, and such a personal thing, I think that had to come out."

December 4, 2016: Matty says the song that means the most to him on his album 'I Like It When You Sleep…' (NME's Album of the Year) is the song 'She Lays Down'. (source)

[rickywilson]

Jay-Z is a Kaiser Chiefs fan, according to Mark Ronson, who produced the band’s third album ‘Off With Their Heads’.

30 Things You Didn’t Know About Kaiser Chiefs

[rickywilson]

Ricky Wilson once told NME he would “wank off a tramp for fame”. He has been trying to live it down ever since. “It was a joke,” he later protested. “Like that thing you do with your mates: would you eat sick for a pound? I didn’t ever seriously consider wanking a tramp off.”

30 Things You Didn’t Know About Kaiser Chiefs

[rickywilson]

Kaiser Chiefs are fond of feeding outrageous lies to journalists about the band’s origins. One story, faithfully repeated in many band biographies, relates how drummer Nick Hodgson first met frontman Ricky Wilson when the pair competed in a nightclub dance competition. “Like, I saw him across the room and I was wearing a white tuxedo and he was Mr Evil with a black hat on,” explains Hodgson.

30 Things You Never Knew About Kaiser Chiefs