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They were named after the South African football association Kaizer Chiefs, whom former Leeds United, the band's favourite football side, footballer Lucas Radebe played for. The group's first appearance book Employment was free in 2004. In 2005, the book was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize. The album was healthy received by music critics, and it was described as "thrilling from beginning to end" plus "quintessentially British, without pretension plus most importantly, a whole lot of amusing".

It reached figure two on the UK albums chart, plus was expert five era platinum. In 2005, Employment was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, an yearly music prize awarded intended for the best British or Irish book as of the previous year. In 2007, the song was enclosed by Mark Ronson and Lily Allen for Ronson's album Version. The group recorded the book throughout 2006 at Hook End Studio in Oxfordshire, England.

The album received mixed reviews from critics, who found it to be "an album filled of jukebox hits" and "predictable". S. com.

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29 at Novel York's Bonfire Theatre. A European tour gets underway Oct. 23 in London. S. All Music Direct.

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