The Kaiser Chiefs are happy finally to have made it, they have said in a recent interview.

The band, one of the year's biggest sensations, told the Guardian that they believe they deserve the recognition they are getting.

Their success shows no sign of stopping. Their album, Employment, has been in the top ten since March, and their most famous single, 'I predict a riot', is the "official national anthem", according to the newspaper.

"The verses are about the fact that we've been playing together for such a long time and people think, 'What's he doing? He's still trying to make a career out of music? It'll never work. One in a million people do it.' But we still had the opinion that we were five of the people in a million, so we carried on." So says singer Ricky Wilson, 27.

For years, the Kaiser Chiefs, aka Runston Parva, aka Parva, were eking out a living doing gigs.

Drummer Nick Hodgson, 28, says: "We were very low and I had to keep the morale of the troops up. We had a lot to prove to ourselves. For me, I could never be happy if I wasn't writing songs and performing in a band. I never, ever considered anything else. Ever."

Now Wilson, Hodgson, guitarist Andrew "Whitey" White, 30, bassist Simon Rix, and keyboardist Nick "Peanut" Baines have what they feel they deserve.