Kaiser Chiefs' snappy-go-lucky tour of Leeds

Old Chapel: Whenever we rehearse in Leeds we use a place called Old Chapel. Nick, Ricky and Whitey started going there in 1997, and we have been going there ever since. Almost every song we've had has been formed in Room 1 at Old Chapel. Mark, who owns it, is a good guy who used to help us out, lending us anything he could. We still have a test that if Mark is whistling a tune at the end of rehearsal, it's a hit! Photograph: Kaiser Chiefs

Elland Road: We couldn't have a Leeds gallery without Elland Road. Obviously, it is the home of football. We've got season tickets and go as often as possible. We even sit next to each other. People probably think we'd like to get away from each other, but in fact it's probably the time we are physically the closest together! Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty

Pigs flyer: Pigs is a club night at the HiFi club started by Nick, Ricky and a friend called Ash in 2002. It was our plan to initiate a preposterous night of posing! I DJed there along with various others including the Guardian's very own online music editor Tim Jonze Photograph: Ash Kollakowski

Another pigs flyer: Pigs started as a joke really, a place where we could play all the New York stuff that was very popular at the time alongside electro, punk, new wave and 1980s hits. Amazingly, the club survives to this day – it happens on the last Tuesday of every month Photograph: Ash Kollakowski

Jimmy Savile. We don't need to say anything else Photograph: Alex Maguire/Rex Features

Corn Exchange: Ricky used to work at Arc in the Corn Exchange. Now it's a food hall Photograph: Philip Silverman/Rex Features

Leeds United's David Prutton: When we played Elland Road he was texting us before the gig to wish us luck. You can read his review of AC/DC here Photograph: Mike Egerton/Press Association

Crash Records: This is a brilliant record shop where the staff recommend good music if you get chatting to them. Jumbo is also good, especially if you speak to Matt Photograph: Christopher Thomond/freelancer

The Cockpit: This is the most important club in Leeds. It was home to Brighton Beach, the mod/indie night that started in 1994 and became the best place to be during Britpop. It is where we discovered a lot of music, and saw a lot of bands. It is also where Nick met Whitey Photograph: Christopher Thomond/freelancer

Josephs Well: It's a pub in Leeds and also a gig venue. We played our first gig there as Kaiser Chiefs. Simon and Peanut both worked there and our friend put a lot of the gigs on. That meant we got some favourable treatment in terms of getting gigs and support slots for touring bands. It was also a place for Leeds Music Scene People to hang out so we met a lot of people here Photograph: Christopher Thomond/freelancer

The Underground: This was a club in Leeds beneath the old Town and Country (pictured here, the Underground was somewhere around the back). We spent a lot of nights in there when we were 17 or 18, until it closed in 2000. The big night was Move On Up on Wednesdays. As the name suggests they played Motown, Stax, northern soul, mod and psychedelia. It was unbelievable. We discovered loads of great records, did a lot of dancing and learned a lot about girls Photograph: Kaiser Chiefs