Kaiser Chiefs – review

Kirkstall Abbey, LeedsWith Kaiser Chiefs promoting a comeback album titled The Future Is Medieval, holding two enormous outdoor gigs at a 12th-century ruined Cistercian monastery in their hometown felt like a conceptual masterstroke. But perhaps there are a few more unlikely parallels between the ancient, crumbling edifice and Leeds's perennial Britpoppers.Where Kirkstall Abbey faced a serious assault by Henry VIII's troops during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Chiefs' grip on the publi...

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