Ricky Wilson of Kaiser Chiefs: `People like to see you drinking - so I´d get drunk´
(The Guardian Culture News)

After finding fame in the noughties, the indie frontman reinvented himself as a judge on The Voice. But escalating anxiety led to an alcohol problem. Now sober, and with a new album, he opens up - between wisecracks - about his strugglesRicky Wilson gets his greeting a little mixed up when we meet in central London. First, he gives me a full body hug, before announcing he has shingles. `It´s not that contagious,` he tries to assure me. `You´d have to literally wear my clothes to catch it.`Wilson suspects he has caught the virus because the band he fronts, Kaiser Chiefs, are about to release their seventh album, Duck. He has had it twice before: `Always during periods of massive stress.` Continue reading...