PULLED APART BY HORSES AND SKATERS ANNOUNCED AS SPECIAL GUESTS
For their massive hometown show on Friday 13th September at Leeds First Direct Arena; Kaiser Chiefs have announced they will be joined by hard rocking Leeds Quartet Pulled Apart By Horses and New York based three piece Skaters.
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Leeds’ most successful music export Kaiser Chiefs are the only local act to appear at the Arena’s opening. Kaiser Chiefs return to Leeds will come at the end of a busy 2013 for the band, with a sold out UK Tour, festival dates across the globe and performing as special guests for Green Day’s UK & European Tour.
Kaiser Chiefs Mercury Prize nominated debut, “Employment” was written in Leeds in 2003/2004, it went on to win Album of the Year gongs at the Ivor Novello and NME Awards. Kaiser Chiefs have since picked up 3 Brit Awards and released three further studio albums “Yours Truly, Angry Mob”, “Off With Their Heads” and “The Future Is Medieval” which won an innovative a Q Award and the coveted Yellow Pencil from the D&AD Creative Awards.
In 2012 Kaiser Chiefs performed at the Olympic Closing Ceremony, covering The Who’s “Pinball Wizard”, did a storming set at the Reading & Leeds Festivals (back on the Main Stage for a third time in 6 years) and released their first singles collection “Souvenir: The Singles 2004-2012”.
Joining Kaiser Chiefs will be guests Pulled Apart By Horses who have had an incredible couple of years. Their second album ‘Tough Love’ (Transgressive Records) was critically-acclaimed across the board and saw them take to stage across the UK with their exhilarating sold out performances. Last month Pulled Part By Horses released a split single with Blood Red Shoes where each band covered ‘Heartsink’ and ‘Get off my Ghost Train’ respectively. They also recently released ‘The Tough Love Sessions’ - a collection of demos, live, sessions and b-sides from Tough Love and some extra bonus tracks which are the b-sides from their debut record.
Opening for Kaiser Chiefs are SKATERS who are fresh from bringing their dynamic punk to this year’s Dot To Dot Festival. While they can call New York home, there is a vain of Yorkshire running through the band as one of their number hails from Hull. They will be touring the US before heading back to the UK for Reading Festival and to perform in Leeds this September.