Kaisers wrote song for festivals

Kaiser Chiefs have admitted they wrote their new single quickly to cater for the summer festivals.

The band came into Chris Moyles' breakfast show for the first official play of their new track Never Miss A Beat on Wednesday morning.

Frontman Ricky Wilson said: "We wrote the song about a year ago and it was because we needed new songs for this year's festivals."

The track is taken from their new album, Off With Their Heads.

It was produced by Mark Ronson and Noah And The Whale knob twiddler Eliot James.

Drummer Nick Hodgson said: "Between them we made a good team, a unique team. To be honest I think it's our best album. I'm very excited."

'Unique team'

The pair also played down recent comments made by Noel Gallagher on the breakfast show describing them as "The Monkees going under a different name".

"I think he's really clever because every interview I've done in the last week has mentioned Oasis," Ricky said.

"So I'm answering questions about their new record and he ends up in everybody's interviews. He is a publicity machine."

"I think he's really clever because every interview I've done in the last week has mentioned Oasis"
Ricky Wilson on Noel Gallagher

Nick added: "When I've seen him we've always had a good time. We saw him one time in Australia and had a good time. What a lovely man."

The Kaiser Chiefs drummer also said he once dressed up as Liam Gallagher when he was presenting the now defunct Channel 4 music progamme Popworld.

"I once remember Liam Gallagher apologising to us when we played on Top Of The Pops," Nick explained.

"It was the first time we ever did it and we were a bit nervous of Liam because he'd been slagging us off. But then we'd been presenting Popworld and I dressed up as Liam Gallagher and did an impression of him.

"He comes up to me and goes; 'So yeah right the reason I said stuff about you was because I saw you on that programme doing me and I was just about to put my biscuit in my tea and I left it in for too long and it ruined my biscuit'.

"I ruined his biscuit so he started slagging us off. That's alright isn't it?"

The pair also said they refuse to slate other bands because they always end up meeting them at some point.

Nick added: "The big problem is when you slag people off, which we used to do a lot in the old days, you always end up meeting them and it's always embarrassing."

The new Kaiser Chiefs single Never Miss A Beat is out on 6 October and their third album is released a week later.