Description

The Kooks formed in 2004 while all four members were attending the Brighton Institute for Modern Music, the rock school set up by Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden. Paying homage to their influences, the group displayed an accessible (and bankable) mix of Brit Pop, Kinks-like hooks, and Libertines-style punk swagger. In 2006, the band's highly anticipated debut album, INSIDE IN/INSIDE OUT, rocketed into the top 5 of the U.K. album charts.

Biography

Luke Pritchard vocalsguitar Hugh Harris guitar Max Rafferty bass and Paul Garred drums generate the rubbishy garage rock sounds of the Kooks Obviously named for the song on David Bowies Hunky Dory the Kooks met while attending Brighton Music College in the mid-2000s Each shared a liking for the Police the Strokes the Everly Brothers and Funkadelic thus forming the sweet and precocious sounds of the Kooks in 2005 Before the years end the British foursome was releasing singles for Virgin UK Eddies Gun and Sofa Song did moderately well on the UK singles chart however the romantic playfulness of You Dont Love Me eventually gave the band its first ever Top 20 hit The Kooks debut full-length Inside InInside Out arrived in January 2006 The bands fifth single Naive landed at number five by spring Hot on the heels of their international success the Kooks made their American performance debut at the annual South by Southwest conference in Austin TX in March The US version of Inside InInside Out arrived on Astralwerks in October 2006 MacKenzie Wilson All Music Guide