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Chief for a Day: A Day In The Life of Ricky Wilson

As part of DiS' exclusive Kaiser Chiefs takeover week of content, we asked frontman Ricky Wilson to keep a little Twitter-like time-line of his day to give you a little glimpse into what it's like to spend a day in his trainers...

Wake up on tour bus
Look out of tiny window
See wall
Get out of bunk
Annoy Tim for a bit
Look for toilet
All engaged (really need toilet now)
Go to toilet
Don't open laptop
Potter around catering
Have toast
Put mayonnaise on it (doesn't work)
Go to dressing room
Whitey, Peanut, Simon and Tim on laptops
Nick in bed
Don't open laptop
Find small soft American football
Chuck it about with Tim in the big room
Get bored of that so potter about on stage
Inform Rich that one of his lights is broken
Go back to catering
Read tabloids
Not in them – Relieved
Danny says he knows where there's Ping Pong
Don't open laptop
Get shower (8 out of 10)
Sit with Whitey and watch skateboarders on YouTube
Rachel tells me I have three phone interviews
Tell her I have sore ear so can't do them
Doesn't work
Don't open laptop
Nick is up. He's changing Wikipedia
Nick is annoyed that it is all wrong
Mess about on gym equipment with Whitey
Do three foreign phone interviews
Some of these questions I have heard before
Complain about sore ear to Rachel
She doesn't believe me
Do radio interview with Nick
Interviewer looks EXACTLY like Zoe Ball
She doesn't see it herself, but we all did
Decide to keep Bullet points shorter
Still don't open laptop

Play Ping Pong in the dark
Tim calls it 'Night Ball'
Soundcheck
Nick expresses concern about smoke levels on stage
Get in a Clio and go to Snappy Snaps
Get passport photos for Visa
Play version of Blind Date with Tim and Peanut while we wait
Tim wins
Back in Clio, back to venue
Eat dinner
Talk about remote control planes for a bit
Whitey asks what I'm writing
I tell him it's a 'day in the life' for DiS
Nick is talking to Arthur Baker on the phone
Mess about with Tim on gym equipment
Tim invents 'Beetle-Ball'
Lie on sofa
Fall asleep
Wake up
Orla arrives with finished albums
Very pleased
Get changed
Strap up leg
Drink beer
Warm up
Go on stage
Play hits
Come off stage
Drink beer
Have a laugh
Go to bed
Dream about laptop

Where are all the drugs, women and gang violence?

I don't want to be a rockstar anymore

Congratulations!

You've just written a lyric for Kaiser Chiefs' new album! Please accept your reward of a big bag of self-loathing in my shed.

what did he have for dinner

Crisps?

Wake up

Have shower with new 2 for 1 bottles of soap/shampoo from Tescos
brush teeth in shower
leave flat

HAVE

LIFE

KICK

ME

IN

THE

FACE

allergic rhinitis clears up

petersburg artois

Quiche

the ONEshow

Reason & Cubase

Steal some albums

bed

Why is there a week of articles on Kaiser Chiefs?

Is it because the majority of DiS readers are fans? I doubt it...I'm sure most people come here for an alternative to such mainstream tripe.
Is it because they need the exposure? Nope
Is it because DiS really need those hits? Could be. Are things really that bad?

:D

I DO put on clothes before leaving the flat

just have to make that clear, like.

i like

Kaiser Chiefs

are the indie Soulja Boy

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!

but not as cool...

I quite like this.

Though not a fan of their music, it's still a good read.

It's not too obvious, not too intrusive - yet still interesting.

Weird.

What?

Why is this here?

Fucking smash hits?

My god.

This is a very poor article

Please may it be the last like this.

Don't worry,

only three more band members to go. Next week it's The Automatic's turn, starting with "Why I Hate The One That Left" by One Of The Ones That Didn't Leave.

I can't find

a reaction picture to adequately describe my reaction to DiS Kaiser Chief themed for the week, but imagine a sick horse neighing through its teeth for the reaction audio

i like the new kaiser chiefs song

its coooooooooooooooool to know nothing

Jesus

your thumb's really on the pulse of your readership, innit?

Yes!

Can I also have a noose, an orange, some amyl nitrate and a copy of the Kerry Katona edition of Zoo so i can asphyxy-wank myself out of the boredom?

Fuck Me

this kind of animosity is Ridiculous.
here it comes, i enjoyed the Kaiser Chiefs demoes and early stuff that DiS got me into them through, i enjoyed their album Employment and i think there are some stellar pop tracks on Yours Truly Angry Mob, i have lost touch with them purely because their songs haven't grabbed me quite as much recently however i respect them entirely. whenever i see them on tv they seem like great down to earth lads, they played Elland Road and recently opened Leeds Academy showing they obviously still care about their hometown. they're not full of themselves and are in fact rather modest about their work, notice from the entire bullet-point list there was maybe 5 short bullet points about/around their Actual gig and no self-indulging RE: audience reaction/girls/song titles etc. and it proved as a rather interesting read i found about a bands life on the road. a true story. not glamorized or owt. there are enough other articles on DiS so as readers that Aren't into this/the band can read elsewhere rather than make rather obvious remarks RE: DiS' target audience etc. i've been a member on these boards for the last 6 years and i can usually accept some of the hostility as positive/negative criticism but constructive none-the-less but some of the people replying to this are just plain cunts. it has to be said.

My immature sarcasm hides the fact

that I also enjoyed the first album very much, and have a similar view towards them than you seem to... I just don't understand why theyve been given this 'platform' to write really not very interesting articles? Ive only been coming here for around 3 years, but I cant remember seeing many articles as mundane as the few we've been given so far?? (Apologies if I'm wrong and there have been)I guess it's just the website going through a bit of a change or summat and is trying to get more readership etc.. and if we don't like then, either lump it or leave.

That is some awful gramma

i can agree with post of what you're saying

and can't really defend the amount of articles in this bracket aside from maybe that DiS took this opportunity during the change over to bring back some of their old friends to trial some new kind of features etc. ie. i can imagine entirely a takeover of this variety working amazingly well if it was a band the majority of the boards enjoyed you see. we'll see i guess. btw, no personal quarrel you must understand.

but what band

...does 'the majority like' enough that noone would bitch and whine? I understand what you are getting at, but basically I think there would be this whinging regardless. It's what internet people do. They can say whatever they want from behind the inpenetrable defenses of their keyboards 100's of miles away, and never really have to account for, or defend in any meaningful way, whatever wild hyperbole they want to barf out.
I don't mind the Kaiser Chiefs. Frankly I think they write some solid music, which is fun to listen to sometimes, although it's not totally my cup of tea. I was amused by the above article, too. I learned something about recording drums from the song-by-song article (tea towels, and close mics? huh...).
I don't own, nor do I really plan to buy, any Kaiser Chiefs music, and yet somehow I've managed to enjoy this issue. But then I'm a bit older.
The gods bless the interweb! :)

Just wait

till the fly fishing with nick hodgson article tomorrow, it'll knock your socks off

i can't wait...

heheh

hopefully it will have 5 or 6 hours of video footage to go along with it. Nothing like watching other people play cruel tricks on fish.

:(

"in fact rather modest about their work"

I wonder why. Glad to hear they're all down to earth though, I was really worried for a minute!!!

ha, yeah I wasn't having a go either!

Has DiS always been this chummy with the Kaisers,recently I mean (not including releasing their first single etc..) I mean, they gave their last album 3/10..and then theyre giving the new one more promotion that anything else Ive ever seen! Doesnt really make sense...

Oh well, Im just moaning because I can...ha

laptop

so you can't use a computer eh Ricky? Hahaha! Sal x

stupid comments above...

So what did you miserable gits do today? Got up, forgot to don your sense of humour, read tongue-in-cheek internet articles and wrote dumbass comments. I know who's day I'd rather have.

Apalling band

Always have been.I know you released one of their early singles. But PHFFF Come on DIS now they're on a big label you can drop your love for them.

appauling spelling ^

great band. ricky don't half crack me up.

just realised my own mistake..

i'm stoopid

nope

It's not a serious piece of journalism - it's just a bit of fun for god's sake. The clues are in the witty parts.

^I think 97% of the new users

signed up of the past few days have been Kaiser fanboys...it's working dis!

i actually like them

there,i said it

:D

um

Read tabloids
Not in them – Relieved

what a complete lie.

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