{"id":725613,"date":"2026-08-03T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725613\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:24:14","slug":"kaiser-chiefs-consider-following-coldplay-with-song-about-luton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725613\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaiser Chiefs consider following Coldplay with song about Luton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The concert will take place at Stockwood Park, the same location as Radio 1&#8217;s Big Weekend, on 12 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilson said Kaiser Chiefs&#8217; guitarist had also studied at the university and, having learned to use surveying poles in local streets, he &#8220;knows his way around&#8221; Luton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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 &#8220;best chicken in the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The frontman pledged to the Luton audience: &#8220;We are the Kaiser Chiefs and we will not let you down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Beds, Herts or Bucks? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The concert will take place at Stockwood Park, the same location as Radio 1&#8217;s Big Weekend, on 12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-725613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}