ShareAfter announcing a massive hometown show at Leeds’ Temple Newsam Park for May 2025, to celebrate twenty years of their iconic debut album Employment, Yorkshire indie icons Kaiser Chiefs announce further 20th anniversary celebration shows for next summer, including London’s Alexandra Palace Park, Brighton Beach and more.
Starting in Port Talbot on May 22nd, the band will bring pure joy across the UK as they celebrate 20 years of their iconic debut album, making their way to Leeds, Bristol, Edinburgh, London, Brighton, Cumbria and Newquay.
Kaiser Chiefs said: “Twenty years ago, a brand new song by a brand new band was released. I Predict A Riot was the start of something really special for some musicians from Leeds. And the album that followed, Employment, changed our lives and has sound tracked the lives of millions of others since 2005. In 2025 we are saluting twenty years of that album and everyone is invited. Come celebrate the 2000’s, loving everything less and less and stripey blazers taking over the world.”
Released in March 2005, the seven-times Platinum and multi-award winning Employment remains the biggest ever selling record from a Leeds artist, with hits from the record like I Predict A Riot and Oh My God becoming anthems for the city; forever intertwined with Leeds life, culture, football and more.
Coming home to Leeds on Saturday 31st May, the band will be joined by an incredible supporting cast of their mid-noughties peers, including a return to Yorkshire for London quintet Razorlight who are set to perform a special show to mark twenty years since the release of their seminal debut album Up All Night. Also joining them on the bill are local heroes The Cribs (who in turn will celebrate twenty years since their classic sophomore album The New Fellas), Merseyside’s finest The Coral, and cult-favourite US indie rockers We Are Scientists (who will also honour the 20th release anniversary of their exhilarating major label debut With Love And Squalor).
As well as marking one of the great eras of British indie music, the band will also be keeping one eye on the future, inviting two of the most exciting new indie artists in the UK to open the day; Hastings trio HotWax and West Yorkshire’s own Ellur.
TOUR DATES 2025
May
| Date | Venue |
|---|---|
| Thu 22nd | Home Park Stadium Leeds |
| Fri 23rd | In it Together Festival Port Talbot |
| Sat 31st | Temple Newsam Leeds |
June
| Date | Venue |
|---|---|
| Wed 4th | Town Mor Newcastle |
| Thu 26th | Bristol Sounds |
| Fri 27th | Glastonbury Pilton |
July
| Date | Venue |
|---|---|
| Fri 4th | Edinburgh Castle |
| Sat 19th | Alexandra Palace Castle London |
| Mon 21st | Peterson Seabase Aberdeen |
| Sat 26th | Latitude Festival Southwold |
| Sun 27th | Brighton Beach |
| Thu 31st | Kendal Calling Festival Cumbria |
August
| Date | Venue |
|---|---|
| Fri 8th | Boardmasters Festival Newquay |
| Sat 9th | Boucher Road Playing Fields Belfast |
| Sun 10th | Boucher Road Playing Fields Belfast |
| Sat 23rd | Collins Barracks Dublin |
| Sun 24th | Live At The Docklands Luimneach |
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