Grumpy Kaiser Chief On Meeting Celebs

Oct 28 2007

KAISER Chief Ricky Wilson yesterday revealed his tactics to deal with superstarencounters - being grumpy.

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The frontman says he’s so shy when he bumps into other celebs that he starts moaning in a bid to look cool.

Ricky said: I do get a bit starstruck, it’s not like I can’t speak but when I meet famous people I moan. I think it makes me appear cool and blasé.

“We were talking to Coldplay yesterday and Chris Martin asked me how relations within the band were.

“I went, ‘Mm, you know. All right I suppose.’ The others were stood next to me going, ‘You what!’

“At least I have an ‘in’ with celebs now. If I had met someone like Terry Hall four years ago I couldn’t have just walked up because he’d have wondered who the weirdo was.

“Now he knows it’s the weirdo from the Kaiser Chiefs.

Ricky, 29, spent Wednesday night surrounded by celebs at the Electric Proms when he stood in for Lily Allen to perform Mark Ronson’s cover of Kaisers’ hit Oh My God. He said: It was like a very bizarre karaoke night.

“The arrangement is so different and I have heard Lily’s one so much I forgot how to do it our way.

“My girlfriend was laughing at me because halfway through there’s a break and I did some sort of little dance. I looked over at Mark Ronson and he was laughing at me.

The Kaisers are about to embark on a massive UK arena tour taking in a date at the SECC on December 6 and Ricky is determined to make them their best shows yet by unveiling FIVE brand new songs.

He said: We have lots of hits which is brilliant but we want more.

And he is happy for fans to film the new tracks and put them on the web.

He said: When you bring out an album the world judges it. Songs are more important nowadays.

“We can play a new song live and the next morning there are 15 versions on YouTube.