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I Predict a Riot

{{Short description|2004 single by Kaiser Chiefs}}

{{For|the album by Hezekiah|I Predict a Riot (album)}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2015}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox song

| name = I Predict a Riot

| cover = ipredictariotoriginal2.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Kaiser Chiefs

| album = Employment

| B-side = Take My Temperature

| released = {{start date|2004|11|1|df=y}}

| recorded =

| studio = Chapel

| genre =

  • Power pop{{cite web|last=Sutton|first=Michael|title=Kaiser Chiefs {{!}} Biography & History|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/kaiser-chiefs-mn0000932328/biography|access-date=17 April 2021|website=AllMusic}}
  • indie rock{{cite web|date=2 December 2018|title=Ellie Goulding backs Dalton Harris to win X Factor final|url=http://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2018/12/02/news/ellie-goulding-backs-dalton-harris-to-win-x-factor-final-1498985/|access-date=17 April 2021|website=The Irish News}}

| length = 3:52

| label = B-Unique

| writer =

| producer = Stephen Street

| prev_title = Oh My God

| prev_year = 2004

| next_title = Oh My God

| next_year = 2005

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| type = single

| prev_title = Everyday I Love You Less and Less

| prev_year = 2005

| title = I Predict a Riot

| title2 = Sink That Ship

| year = 2005

| next_title = Modern Way

| next_year = 2005

}}

}}

"I Predict a Riot" is a song by English indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs, appearing on their debut album, Employment (2005). It was originally released as their second single on 1 November 2004 and was the band's first release on the B-Unique label. It entered at number 22 on the UK Singles Chart. When re-released in 2005 as a double A-side with "Sink That Ship", it peaked at number nine on the UK chart.

Background

Drummer Nick Hodgson used to DJ at a club in Leeds called the Cockpit. He would often drive home past another nightclub called Majestyk's which often had people and police fighting each other, and sometimes drunk clubgoers would even bang on the windows of his car at 3{{nbsp}}am.{{cite web |last=Lynskey |first=Dorian and Dave Simpson |date=24 February 2006 |title='Born Slippy was a greyhound we bet on' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/feb/24/popandrock2 |accessdate=11 January 2022 |website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv3cdXHEfAY|title=Kaiser Chiefs Interview: The Story Of 'I Predict A Riot' - NME Song Stories |website= YouTube|date=4 July 2014 |accessdate=11 January 2022}} He took inspiration from this one night and wrote a riff on the piano when he got home. The "friend of a friend who got beaten" was a friend of a fellow DJ at the Cockpit. The title came from an event Hodgson DJed at a different club called Pigs, where a band called Black Wire was playing. The crowd was so chaotic that he said to the club's boss, "I predict a riot".{{Cite news |last=Yates |first=Henry |last2=Yates |first2=Interviews by Henry |date=2020-05-18 |title=Kaiser Chiefs: how we made I Predict a Riot |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/18/kaiser-chiefs-how-we-made-i-predict-a-riot |access-date=2024-09-22 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

The song makes a reference to John Smeaton ("an old Leodensian"), a civil engineer born in 1724 and a former pupil of Leeds Grammar School, the same school attended by the band’s singer, Ricky Wilson.{{Cite web |date=2014-10-01 |title=The story of Kaiser Chiefs' I Predict A Riot |url=https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/kaiser-chiefs/kaiser-chiefs-predict-a-riot-00s-club-scene-leeds/ |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=Radio X |language=en}}

Live performances

"I Predict a Riot" was one of the three tracks the band played when they opened Live 8 in Philadelphia, alongside "Everyday I Love You Less and Less" and "Oh My God".

Track listings

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  • UK 7-inch single (2004) {{small|(BUN088-7)}}{{cite AV media notes|title=I Predict a Riot|others=Kaiser Chiefs|year=2004|type=UK 7-inch single sleeve|publisher=B-Unique Records|id=BUN088-7}}

:A. "I Predict a Riot"

:B. "Take My Temperature"

  • UK CD single (2004) {{small|(BUN088CD)}}{{cite AV media notes|title=I Predict a Riot|others=Kaiser Chiefs|year=2004|type=UK CD single liner notes|publisher=B-Unique Records|id=BUN088CD}}
  1. "I Predict a Riot"
  2. "Wrecking Ball"
  • Australian CD single (2005) {{small|(9882095)}}{{cite AV media notes|title=I Predict a Riot|others=Kaiser Chiefs|year=2005|type=Australian CD single liner notes|publisher=B-Unique Records|id=9882095}}
  1. "I Predict a Riot" – 3:54
  2. "Wrecking Ball" – 3:50
  3. "Take My Temperature" – 2:35
  4. "I Predict a Riot" (video)

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  • UK CD1 and 7-inch single (2005) {{small|(BUN096-7; BUN096CD)}}{{cite AV media notes|title=I Predict a Riot / Sink That Ship|others=Kaiser Chiefs|year=2005|type=UK CD1 liner notes|publisher=B-Unique Records, Polydor Records|id=BUN096CD}}{{cite AV media notes|title=I Predict a Riot / Sink That Ship|others=Kaiser Chiefs|year=2005|type=UK 7-inch single sleeve|publisher=B-Unique Records, Polydor Records|id=BUN096-7}}
  1. "I Predict a Riot" – 3:54
  2. "Sink That Ship" – 2:38
  • UK CD2 (2005) {{small|(BUN096CDX)}}{{cite AV media notes|title=I Predict a Riot|others=Kaiser Chiefs|year=2005|type=UK CD2 liner notes|publisher=B-Unique Records, Polydor Records|id=BUN096CDX}}
  1. "I Predict a Riot" – 3:54
  2. "Less Is More" – 2:52
  3. "Everyday I Love You Less and Less" (Boys Noize Remix) – 5:26
  4. "I Predict a Riot" (new version—video)

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Charts

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=Weekly charts=

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!Chart (2004)

!Peak
position

{{single chart|Scotland|35|date=20041113|rowheader=true|access-date=9 July 2018}}
{{single chart|UK|22|date=20041113|rowheader=true|access-date=9 July 2018}}
{{single chart|UKindie|2|date=20041113|rowheader=true|access-date=9 July 2018}}

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!Chart (2005)

!Peak
position

scope="row"|Australia Hitseekers (ARIA){{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/issue797.pdf|title=The ARIA Report: ARIA Hitseekers – Week Commencing 6th June 2005|publisher=ARIA|page=19|date=6 June 2005|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20050619140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20050620-0000/issue797.pdf|archive-date=19 June 2005|access-date=20 June 2021}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

|5

{{single chart|Flanders Tip|17|artist=Kaiser Chiefs|song=I Predict a Riot|rowheader=true|access-date=9 July 2018}}
{{single chart|Germany|79|artist=Kaiser Chiefs|song=I Predict a Riot|songid=124879|rowheader=true|access-date=9 July 2018}}
{{single chart|Ireland2|25|song=I Predict a Riot / Sink That Ship|rowheader=true|access-date=9 July 2018|note=with "Sink That Ship"}}
{{single chart|Dutch100|74|artist=Kaiser Chiefs|song=I Predict a Riot|rowheader=true|access-date=9 July 2018}}
{{single chart|Scotland|8|date=20050903|rowheader=true|access-date=6 July 2023|note=with "Sink That Ship"|refname="scot2005"}}
{{single chart|UK|9|date=20050903|rowheader=true|access-date=9 July 2018|note=with "Sink That Ship"|refname="uk2005"}}
{{single chart|Billboardalternativesongs|34|artist=Kaiser Chiefs|rowheader=true|access-date=9 July 2018}}

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=Year-end charts=

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!Chart (2005)

!Position

scope="row"|UK Singles (OCC){{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/end-of-year-singles-chart/20050110/37501/|title=End of Year Singles Chart Top 100 – 2005|publisher=Official Charts Company|access-date=8 July 2018}}

|68

Chart (2006)

!Position

scope="row"|UK Singles (OCC){{cite web|url=http://www.ukchartsplus.co.uk/ChartsPlusYE2006.pdf|title=The Official UK Singles Chart 2006|work=UKChartsPlus|access-date=4 September 2018}}

|121

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Certifications

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Kaiser Chiefs|title=I Predict a Riot|award=Platinum|number=2|relyear=2004|certyear=2023|id=10041-1099-1|access-date=1 September 2023}}

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Release history

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scope="row"|United Kingdom

|rowspan="4"|"I Predict a Riot"

|1 November 2004

|CD

|rowspan="4"|B-Unique

|align="center"|{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=23|date=30 October 2004}}

scope="row" rowspan="2"|United States

|31 January 2005

|Alternative radio

|align="center"|{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2005/RR-2005-01-28.pdf|title=Going for Adds|magazine=Radio & Records|issue=1591|page=25|date=28 January 2005|access-date=20 June 2021}}

rowspan="2"|23 May 2005

|{{hlist|Contemporary hit|hot adult contemporary radio}}

|align="center"|{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2005/RR-2005-05-20.pdf|title=Going for Adds|magazine=Radio & Records|issue=1607|page=23|date=20 May 2005|access-date=20 June 2021}}

scope="row"|Australia

|rowspan="2"|CD

|align="center"|{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/issue795.pdf|title=The ARIA Report: New Releases Singles – Week Commencing 23rd May 2005|publisher=ARIA|page=28|date=23 May 2005|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20050619140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20050620-0000/issue795.pdf|archive-date=19 June 2005|access-date=20 June 2021}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

scope="row"|United Kingdom

|"I Predict a Riot" / "Sink That Ship"

|22 August 2005

|{{hlist|B-Unique|Polydor}}

|align="center"|{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=49|date=20 August 2005}}

In popular culture

When Liz Truss gave her farewell speech on 25 October 2022, the song was heard playing in the background. The incident was orchestrated by activist Steve Bray.{{cite news |last=Waters |first=Lowenna |date=26 October 2022 |title='I Predict a Riot' by the Kaiser Chiefs blasted behind Downing Street as Liz Truss gives final speech as PM |url=https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/predict-riot-kaiser-chiefs-blasted-070341775.html |access-date=26 October 2022 |work=Evening Standard}}

English professional darts player Luke Humphries uses the song as his walk-on music.{{Cite web |title=Luke Humphries |url=https://www.pdc.tv/players/luke-humphries |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=PDC |language=en}}

References

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Category:2004 singles

Category:2004 songs

Category:2005 singles

Category:B-Unique Records singles

Category:British power pop songs

Category:Kaiser Chiefs songs

Category:Polydor Records singles

Category:Song recordings produced by Stephen Street

Category:Songs written by Andrew White (musician)

Category:Songs written by Nick "Peanut" Baines

Category:Songs written by Nick Hodgson

Category:Songs written by Ricky Wilson (singer)

Category:Songs written by Simon Rix