The Kooks
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| Origin |  Brighton, England |
| Years active | 2004-present |
| Genres | Indie rock |
| Labels | Virgin Records |
| Members | Luke Pritchard Hugh Harris Max Rafferty Paul Garred |
| Website(s) | Official Website |
The Kooks are an indie rock band originating from Brighton, England. The Kooks debut album, Inside In - Inside Out, spent more than half of 2006 ensconced in the UK Top 20 and has sold more than 1,000,000 copies in the UK.[1]
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[edit] Members
- Luke Pritchard – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
- Hugh Harris – lead guitar
- Max Rafferty – bass guitar
- Paul Garred – drums, percussion
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
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[edit] Singles
| Year | Song | UK Singles Chart | UK Download Chart | Dutch Single Chart | Album |
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| 2005 | "Eddie's Gun" | #35 | - | - | "Inside In/Inside Out" |
| 2005 | "Sofa Song" | #28 | - | - | |
| 2006 | "You Don't Love Me" | #12 | - | - | |
| 2006 | "Naïve" | #5 | #2 | tip | |
| 2006 | "She Moves in Her Own Way" | #7 | #8 | #29 | |
| 2006 | "Ooh La" | #20 | #20 | - |
[edit] Misc
- The King & I ; on the charity album Colours Are Brighter - October 2006
[edit] Notable live performances
- Performed on The Album Chart Show at midnight on Saturday the 18 March 2006.
- Performed at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Dundee, the largest free festival in Europe (15 May 2006).
- Performed She Moves in Her Own Way on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on 9 June 2006
- Performed at the T In The Park music festival on 8 July 2006.
- Performed Naïve, She Moves In Her Own Way, See The World and Seaside in their set at Oxegen Festival in Ireland on 9 July 2006.
- Performed Naïve live on BBC Three at Leeds Festival on 25 August 2006.
- Performed a cover of the Gnarls Barkley song Crazy in Paris
- Supported the Rolling Stones on their Bigger Bang Tour at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff
[edit] Trivia
- Pete Denton is currently playing bass, previously he was in Kid Symphony
- The albums Too Much Is Enough (1998) and Verbal Jujitsu (2002) are by another band, a Swedish band apparently also called The Kooks.
- They recorded a cover from Gnarls Barkley hit "Crazy" in a small street in Paris, on the Radio 1 Live Lounge and performed it also during a summer Belgian talk show under the Galleries of the Ostend Casino.
- Luke Pritchard is self-confessed to be "tone deaf" which he announced to fans on "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross". However, it was alleged that he got drunk in the green room of the studio before being interviewed, and as a consequence said he was tone deaf.
- The band refused to be interviewed on Channel 4's Popworld after, in the course of their first interview on the show, Simon Amstell made repeated references to Luke's ex-girlfriend, Katie Melua.
- Several of the songs released on their debut album, Inside In/Inside Out are believed to be written about Luke Pritchard's former girlfriend Katie Melua, including "She Moves In Her Own Way".
- The song Naïve, which catapulted them to stardom after release, was written by Luke Pritchard when he was just 16 years old.
- The Kooks have recently announced that they are currently working on their second album and are hoping for a spring 2007 release date.
- Luke Pritchard has stated in several interviews that he wrote every single on Inside in/Inside out to the standard that they could be released.
[edit] See also
- Virgin Records - the band's record label.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Q Magazine, December 2006, indicating Inside In - Inside Out has already spent 38 weeks in the UK Top 20 and had attained triple platinum status.
[edit] References
- "The Kooks - All Hunky Dory" by Jeremy Lloyd, musicOMH.com, October, 2005, retrieved November 19, 2006.
