Bands that have previously headlined the three-day event include Muse, Sir Paul McCartney and The Kaiser Chiefs.

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The Kaiser Chiefs started out copying hip American groups like The Strokes from New York City and Detroit's White Stripes.

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It would be easy to put the Kaiser Chiefs in this category, mainly because they sound like a hundred bands you've heard before.

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It makes me think that the Kaiser Chiefs possess more than just flash and style, and I can't wait to hear their second disc, just to be sure.

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But do the Kaiser Chiefs live up to the hype?

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Oh, to be a young British band like the Kaiser Chiefs, to be filled with cheeky attitude, blessed with excellent fashion sense and unconcerned that anyone might think your music is derivative.

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When the Kaiser Chiefs turned their attention toward their own back yard, they started making better music, but you can still hear a little garage rock revivalism in the menacing guitar rift that hovers over their first single.

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Last year Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Editors, Reverend And The Makers, Mark Ronson, Chemical Brothers and Sir Paul McCartney were among the acts who performed.

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The result is a call to action that lands somewhere between Talking Heads and Kaiser Chiefs, a territory Franz Ferdinand still rules.

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