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na ja, über irgendetwas müssen die ja berichten, gell? und da es keine tokio hotel-neuigkeiten gibt, der sänger immer noch den alten haarschnitt hat, müssen halt die monkeys herhalten….. die doch eh total anders sind als kaiser chiefs. alberne news.
eine kleine Antwort von kaiser chiefs – peanut
A wry grin passes on to Peanuts face when I mention recent stories appearing in the British press suggesting a certain disdain from recent #1 band Arctic Monkeys. Media tussles are inevitably also a part of the Kaiser Chief’s year: „You realise, after a year of doing interviews constantly, how much of a game it really is. We met the Arctic Monkeys in London, they were staying in the same hotel as us, and we asked them ‚why ‚dya slag us off in the NME?‘, and they’re kids, you know. I felt weird,“ he says, making a face, „‚cause I’m nine or ten years older than them. I was almost talking down to them, not because I wanted to, but because, after the year that we’ve had, as I’m talking to them, they’re listening and learning from me – like they were asking about Japan, and we’d just been there to play. So anyway, it turns out that they were asked about us in an NME interview, like ‚what would you do if you had a year like Kaiser Chiefs have had, next year?‘, and they said ‚we’d probably split up‘, but the way it was reported made it sound like they don’t want to be like us,“ he says, not particularly clarifying things.
„You realise now though, how much Oasis and Blur must have enjoyed that whole thing. We’ve learned a lot of lessons. We could easily embark on this ‚Arctic Monkeys are a bunch of twats‘ type of thing, but they’re not quite big enough yet [laughs]“. He continues, with just a hint of bile, „They’re billed as an indie band, but we know, from being in the industry what it’s like. You realise they’ve got the same press guy as us, the same radio plugger as us, the same marketing team as us, and yet they’re talking about not wanting to be like us! They’re talking like that, but the people behind them want to sell them as much as they can, and they clearly haven’t got enough staying power as a young band, they haven’t put their foot down. They shipped 90,000 singles, which, if you want to be an indie band, you don’t do. They went to #1. It’s more amusing to me, than something to be worried about. From the inside, I can see why people would take a pop at us. ‚Cause if we say the slightest thing back, it’ll get in the headlines. It works. It’s quite fascinating!“ And shamefacedly I smile, looking at the tape recorder on the table between us.