The concert will take place at Stockwood Park, the same location as Radio 1’s Big Weekend, on 12 September.
The Feeling and The Hoosiers will also play, alongside local acts JW Paris and Olivia Lynn, while Radio 1 presenters and University of Bedfordshire alumni Rickie Haywood-Williams and Melvin Odoom will DJ.
Wilson said Kaiser Chiefs’ guitarist had also studied at the university and, having learned to use surveying poles in local streets, he “knows his way around” Luton.
Asked what he hoped to do while in the town, Wilson said he wanted to try local food after his wife recommended Luton-founded Chicken George as the “best chicken in the country”.
The frontman pledged to the Luton audience: “We are the Kaiser Chiefs and we will not let you down.”
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