Kaiser Chiefs' homecoming show at Leeds United's Elland Road stadium has got underway this afternoon (May 24).
Friendly Fires got proceedings underway at 4.20pm (BST) playing the first set of the day.
"Hello we're Friendly Fires from St Albans, we're the first band on," frontman Ed Macfarlan told the crowd as they opened with 'Photobooth'. "I know it's the afternoon but I'd like to see some dancing if that's possible."
The four-piece then tore though a dancey post punk mix of spikey guitars, bleeps and synths, as the crowd on the pitch and in Elland Road's stands began to grow.
"That's the biggest crowd we've ever played in front of but after the first song we got into the swing of it, so we were quite comfortable up there," Macfarlan told NME.COM after coming off stage. "It was amusing every time I said 'Kaiser Chiefs there would be this massive football chant. I guess it's the closest I'm ever going to get to feeling like a footballer!"
Friendly Fires played:
'Photobooth'
'Your Love'
'Skeleton Boy'
'On Board'
'In The Hospital'
'Paris'
'Ex Lover'
The Young Knives are set to play next, with Kate Nash and The Enemy set to follow ahead of Kaiser Chiefs peformance at around 9pm.
To get the latest news from the stadium, stay tuned to NME.COM all day.
Meanwhile if you're going to the gig, send your reviews, stories, pictures and videos to news@nme.com with Kaiser in the subject line and we will publish the best.
May 24, 2008 at Elland Road, Leeds -
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The scholarship will help cover the costs of acting classes and rent.
The amount of the award has yet to be finalized, but it will be doled out annually beginning in 2009 in memory of the 28-year-old Brokeback Mountain star, who died in January from an accidental prescription overdose.
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AMY WINEHOUSE's mother was far from upset when the troubled star eloped to wed last year (07) - because she believes her daughter's nuptials to BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL were a "joke".
The Rehab hitmaker wed the music industry assistant, 25, in an unannounced ceremony in Miami, Florida last May (07) - less than a month after he proposed to her.
And although the 24-year-old's father, Mitch, begged the star not to tie the knot until she returned to her native England, her mother Janis insists she wasn't upset about the rushed affair.
She tells Britain's Daily Mail newspaper, "He's been in prison for almost as long as they've been together. It's a joke. But then so was the wedding, really.
"I wasn't upset by it because it meant nothing; nothing whatsoever... I know Mitch, Amy's father, was upset (but) I think they were in Miami and got caught up in the moment, and that was it. It was more like a picnic in the park than a wedding."
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Los Yonics
Artist: Los Yonics
Genre(s):
Other
Retro
Discography:
Hacia El Milenio Disco 2
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Hacia el Milenio CD1
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
16 Exitos De Oro
Year: 1990
Tracks: 16
22 Exitos
Year:
Tracks: 21
The incredibly fecund los Yonic's formed in the '80s and have released an album nearly every year since. The group, which includes leader Johnny Ayvar, Jose Manuel Zamacona (vocals, guitar), Mountain Martin (pianoforte), Bruno Ayvar, Oscar Perez, Eduardo Corner (sax and flute), and Vincente Martinez (sax and flute) was formed in San Luis Pedro just relocated to Acapulco. The set has proved to be incredibly popular with Mexican immigrants in the American Southwest, particularly Los Angeles, San Jose, Phoenix, and El Paso, where their brand of tropical/Cumbia music is ofttimes performed in local ballrooms. Los Yonic's mix tropical music with softer ballads, and the combination has earned them several hits over their long calling, including "I Am," "Sad Words," and "White Roses."
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Angelina Jolie’s estranged father says he still looks up to his moving picture star daughter.
“People world Health Organization advance children properly ar heroes to me because it takes a lot of forge,” Voight, 69, said at the Hollywood premiere of Forgetting Sarah Marshal on Thursday. “And when they do it with joy and love, there’s aught more beautiful.”
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Corrie's Vera speaks about illness
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The 68-year-old actress told ITV's 'Tonight' that she was told by doctors that she only had one third of her lung capacity left.
Dawn, who played Vera Duckworth in 'Coronation Street', recently quit the show due to ill health.
She said: "I used to go to Granada and I used to go in the dressing room, and I'd be really breathless before I even did anything."
"And I got that bad, at the end that instead of somebody knocking on the door and saying: 'It's your scene', I used to go on a scene earlier and sit on the Duckworths' set."
Dawn also said that she quit smoking after her diagnosis: "When you're addicted to smoking it's very hard to stop... I couldn't answer the phone unless I lit up."
The actress said that she regretted smoking around non-smokers: "I mean there are a lot of non-smokers in 'Coronation Street' that I have stood next to and smoked. Must have been awful mustn't it?"
Dawn's doctor Professor Ashley Woodcock said: "Liz came to me about five years ago really pretty desperate."
"At that point she could walk just a couple of yards... she was in a really bad way."
"Stopping her smoking was really critical and she did that... which has been great because she wouldn't be here now... if she hadn't stopped"
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