Sounds From The Junkshop #117 - The Kaiser Chiefs
"Due to lack of interest, tomorrow is cancelled..." - The Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby So let's go right back here. Specifically to a gig my old band Brookside Riot Squad were playing at a short-lived Leeds venue called the Platform in the basement of the Corn Exchange some time around...I reckon 2003 probably? It was an afternoon bill with about six bands on it and we were the first one on. Headlining the evening was a group called Parva who'd just been dropped by their label Mantra (who'd also had China Drum and Compulsion on their books in earlier years) after releasing an album that hadn't sold the previous year. After our set had finished and we'd packed up our gear, I'd headed to the bar for a much needed post-gig pint while the second band of the evening were playing and I remember striking up a brief conversation with the bloke next to me who, as I'd find out later in the evening when he was onstage, was the headline band's lead singer. H...