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RW: At the first rehearsal last week, I was so impressed. I liked the sheet music score with "Oh My God" written at the top of it, with different arrangements for the orchestra. It's good that people take us seriously. Five years ago, you couldn't have got David Arnold to spend all his available free time – and non-free time – to score all this and get 40 musicians in. John Smeaton is now of course long gone, and part of the history books, just like some of the infamous Leeds hangouts the Kaiser Chiefs would have grown up around. The songs start with an initial idea by me on the guitar or piano, but what comes out in the end is a team effort. We don't have a dominating figure who dictates what people play. I think this might explain why we still get along."

This made Leeds both an exciting and frightening place to be on a night out, depending on which side of the fence you were on... and how much alcohol you'd consumed. NH: It's one of the favourite songs of Brendan Benson, the great singer-songwriter in The Raconteurs. NH: Yes, we were asked to write one. It wasn't our thing. It was a romcom. We thought it would be interesting. And it wasn't. But one day it would be cool.DA: It made things a little bit sour, though. It's an award for songwriters and composers. He was being honoured for his considerable body of work and we were at the event with people like The Bee Gees and multimillion selling artists like the Kaiser Chiefs. The way pop music works – sometimes it is loud, sometimes it is simplistic and sometimes it doesn't need to go beyond three chords to do what it sets out to do. He made his views clear, which were: "You're idiots if you like music like this."

Find sources: "Modern Way"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( December 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) DA: The main thing I got from it is a great sense of inclusiveness, an audience that's being performed with and not at. RW: That's brilliant. Twenty million people could be watching it and you'll be at home. The thing about being on stage and doing what we do is that it's not about showing off. It's not like you crave the attention. We're doing something for the audience, not vice versa. It's not that we've got big egos and want them to clap along. We want people to clap along because we want them to enjoy clapping along. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.But, while the city boasted a thriving alternative music scene with the opportunity to discover new bands and listen to the latest indie tunes the likes of The Faversham, Mint, and The HiFi Club, it was also a student town; a hub of super-clubs and cheap nights out. Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it. NH: When we play a gig we only enjoy it when the crowd enjoys it. I went to see a certain artist who did a 20-minute solo acoustic bit. People were talking and he started complaining that they should listen. My feeling was that they came to see you and they're not enjoying themselves. Just listening for the 784,654th time....and it's just perfect in every way. Just incredible. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning.