The Kooks

The Kooks
The Kooks at the 2006 Hurricane Festival
General information
origin	Brighton , East Sussex , England
Genre (s)	Indie rock , britpop , alternative rock
founding	2004
Website	www.thekooks.com
Current occupation
Lead vocals , rhythm guitar	Luke Pritchard
Lead guitar , backing vocals	Hugh Harris
Bass , backing vocals	Peter Denton (since 2008)
Drums	Alexis Nunez (since 2011)
former members
Bass , backing vocals	Max Rafferty (until 2008)
bass	Dan Logan (2008)
Drums	Chris Prendergast (2010)
Drums	Paul Garred (until 2009; 2010-2011)

The Kooks are a British indie rock - band from Brighton , England . The band was founded in 2004 and named best British act at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2006.

history

Formation of the band

During their studies at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music in 2003, the four band members met with the help of mutual acquaintances. In 2004 they started playing music together, creating over a hundred ideas for songs. At a concert at the end of the term at BIMM, the group got the opportunity to cover a song for a performance. They then appeared as The Kooks (American English: "the crazy", "crazy", "eccentric"), named after the song of the same name on David Bowie's 1971 album Hunky Dory , and played Reptilia from The Strokes . Then they noticed that the cover of songs could not satisfy them - they began to fish out the best of both new and their previously collected song ideas and to write complete pieces of music.

Discovery of the Kooks

After almost three months, they recorded a selection of songs on demo tape with a friend in London and sent them to a supposed concert manager in the hope of smaller performances. However, this turned out to be a music manager and briefly signed the band. Shortly afterwards he managed to get them a contract with the record label Virgin Records . With the contract in their pockets and thinking about their band formation only three months ago, they decided to put recordings for a debut album on the back burner and to tour instead. Thereupon they implemented their wish and appeared inter alia as the opening act for The Thrills and The Subways and toured with them through the United Kingdom.

Career

It wasn't until June 2005 that The Kooks came to the Konk recording studio in London . They were supported by the well-known producer Tony Hoffer , who has already worked with Beck , Supergrass and Phoenix . The debut album Inside In / Inside Out went five times platinum with two million sales . Six single releases have been released, including: Eddie's Gun , You Don't Love Me and Naïve . On November 2, 2006, they were named Best Act from Great Britain at the MTV Europe Music Awards and were nominated for the British Breakthrough Act and Best British Single awards at the 2007 Brit Awards , but received no awards .

The Kooks in Barcelona (2008)

On April 11, 2008 their second album Konk was released , which was named after the studio of the same name by Ray Davies . While working on the second album, on January 30th, 2008 bassist Max Rafferty announced his departure from the band. He was initially replaced by Dan Logan from Cat The Dog , but then permanently replaced by Peter Denton. On March 1, 2010, drummer Paul Garred announced his resignation from the band. The reasons for this included nerve problems in the right arm. He was replaced shortly afterwards by Chris Prendergast.

In 2011 the band officially announced that drummer Paul Garred is back on drums for The Kooks.

On September 9, 2011 the third studio album by The Kooks was released under the name "Junk of the Heart".

style

Their multilayered musical style is often compared to bands like Supergrass and Blur . He borrows mainly elements from Britpop , Reggae , Soul , Blues , Funk , but also Garage Rock .

Concerts

Even before their debut, the Kooks opened up for The Thrills and The Subways . After their breakthrough in the British charts, they were able to appear as the opening act for the Rolling Stones on their world tour A Bigger Bang . In 2006 they also played at the German sister festivals Hurricane / Southside and Haldern Pop and in 2007, 2009 and 2011 at the German festivals Rock im Park and Rock am Ring . They also played on June 21, 2008 at “ Rock-A-Field ”, a music festival in Luxembourg, and also at the Hurricane / Southside Festival in 2008, 2012 and 2014. The concert at “Meridian” Houston Texas on October 3, 2008 was canceled at short notice due to loss of voice. The Kooks were also the opening act at the Rolling Stones' concerts as part of the No Filter Tour on June 22, 2018 in the Berlin Olympiastadion and on June 30, 2018 in the Mercedes-Benz-Arena in Stuttgart.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2006	Inside In / Inside Out	DE75 (7 weeks) DE	-	CH83 (1 week) CH	UK2 × 5 Quintuple platinum (100 weeks)UK	US165 (1 week) US	First published: January 23, 2006
2008	Conc	DE6 (19 weeks) DE	AT6 (8 weeks) AT	CH9 (11 weeks) CH	UK1 platinum (26 weeks)UK	US41 (8 weeks) US	First published: April 11, 2008
2011	Junk of the Heart	DE6 (4 weeks) DE	AT9 (3 weeks) AT	CH8 (6 weeks) CH	UK10 (4 weeks) UK	US68 (1 week) US	First published: September 12, 2011
2014	Lists	DE19 (2 weeks) DE	AT23 (1 week) AT	CH16 (2 weeks) CH	UK16 (2 weeks) UK	US85 (1 week) US	First published: September 8, 2014
2017	The Best Of ... So Far	-	-	-	UK18th silver (2 weeks)UK	-	First published: May 19, 2017
2018	Let's go sunshine	DE41 (1 week) DE	AT64 (1 week) AT	CH38 (1 week) CH	UK9 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 31, 2018

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
2005	Eddie's Gun Inside In / Inside Out	-	-	-	UK35 (2 weeks) UK	First published: July 11, 2005
	Sofa Song Inside In / Inside Out	-	-	-	UK28 (3 weeks) UK	First published: October 17, 2005
2006	You Don't Love Me Inside In / Inside Out	-	-	-	UK12 (9 weeks) UK	First published: January 9, 2006
	Naïve Inside In / Inside Out	-	-	-	UK5 × 2 Double platinum (55 weeks)UK	First published: March 27, 2006
	She Moves in Her Own Way Inside In / Inside Out	DE66 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK7th × 2 Double platinum (40 weeks)UK	First published: June 26, 2006
	Ooh La Inside In / Inside Out	-	-	-	UK20th silver (11 weeks)UK	First published: October 23, 2006
2008	Always Where I Need to Be Konk	DE55 (7 weeks) DE	AT63 (9 weeks) AT	CH53 (9 weeks) CH	UK3 silver (13 weeks)UK	First published: March 31, 2008
	Shine On Konk	-	-	CH86 (1 week) CH	UK25 (9 weeks) UK	First published: July 7, 2008
	Sway Konk	-	-	-	UK41 (4 weeks) UK	First published: October 13, 2008
2011	Junk of the Heart (Happy) Junk of the Heart	DE93 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	First published: November 6, 2011
2014	Down lists	-	-	-	UK40 (2 weeks) UK	First published: April 20, 2014
	Around Town Lists	-	-	-	UK35 (1 week) UK	First published: June 15, 2014

more publishments

• 2006: Seaside (UK:silver)
• 2011: Is It Me
• 2012: How'd You Like That
• 2012: Rosie
• 2014: Bad Habit
• 2014: Forgive & Forget
• 2014: See Me Now
• 2015: Creatures of Habit
• 2017: Be Who You Are
• 2017: Broken Vow
• 2018: All The Time
• 2019: So Good Looking

swell

1. ↑ Stern: The boy band of indie pop is backing up
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
3. ↑ ^{a b} Music Sales Awards: UK

Web links

Commons : The Kooks  - collection of images

• Official website (German)
• Official website (English)
• The Kooks at laut.de
• MTV, biographies