Find sources: "Modern Way"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( December 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Kaiser Chiefs emerged in the mid-2000s as one of the major players in the Post-Punk Revival movement. After a slight false start with their first album, 22 (released under the name “Parva”), the band achieved considerable commercial success with their first two major-label studio albums, Employment (2005) and Yours Truly, Angry Mob (2007). The latter also spawned the single, “Ruby”, which scored the band their first UK #1 in 2007. The group gained recognition for their Britpop and Punk-influenced sound, which made them stand out among their contemporaries. To me this song is about a similar situation to which I found myself in. It seems to be about a rebound relationship.

John Smeaton is now of course long gone, and part of the history books, just like some of the infamous Leeds hangouts the Kaiser Chiefs would have grown up around. Just listening for the 784,654th time....and it's just perfect in every way. Just incredible. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning.

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Kaiser Chiefs via David Arnold, Roundhouse, London NW1 (0870 389 1846; www.roundhouse.org.uk), tonight. The Electric Proms continue to Sunday (www.bbc.co.uk/electricproms)

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. UK 7-inch single [4] A. "Modern Way" – 3:31 B. "Run Again" – 2:40 Charts [ edit ] Chart (2005–2006)RW: That's brilliant. Twenty million people could be watching it and you'll be at home. The thing about being on stage and doing what we do is that it's not about showing off. It's not like you crave the attention. We're doing something for the audience, not vice versa. It's not that we've got big egos and want them to clap along. We want people to clap along because we want them to enjoy clapping along. DA: The main thing I got from it is a great sense of inclusiveness, an audience that's being performed with and not at. NH: Yes, we were asked to write one. It wasn't our thing. It was a romcom. We thought it would be interesting. And it wasn't. But one day it would be cool.