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The Kooks (English indie rock band formed in Brighton in 2004.

Luke Pritchard (vocals/rhythm guitar), Hugh Harris (lead guitar/synthesizer/bass), and Alexis Nunez (drums) form the band currently consisting of Luke Pritchard (drums).

Max Rafferty, the original bassist, was introduced, and Paul Garred, the founding drummer, was Paul Garred.

The band's lineup remained stable until Rafferty's departure in 2008.

Dan Logan served as a temporary replacement until Peter Denton joined the band permanently in October 2008 before the band announced that he was no longer playing with them in January 2019.

Pritchard revealed the departure of drummer Paul Garred due to a nerve injury in his arm early in 2010.

Garred returned for studio sessions later this year, but Chris Prendergast played drums when the band performed live.

After the unveiling of their third album, Junk of the Heart, Garred's third album, Junk of the Heart, they were forced to leave in November 2011. Robden Alexis Nunez (from Golden Silvers), who later joined the band full time, was accompanied on drums by the band. The new millennium's music is primarily inspired by the 1960s British Invasion movement and a post-punk revival.

The Kooks have performed in many genres, including rock, Britpop, pop, reggae, ska, and even less often, funk and hip-hop, with one of them being referred to as a "more energetic Thrills or a looser Sam Roberts Band" just three months after being signed to Virgin Records, "better Arctic Monkeys at times."

The album was ultimately fruitful, with quadruple platinum status in the United Kingdom and also internationally in the form of a platinum certification in Australia and two times platinum in Ireland.

With the band winning the Best UK & Ireland Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2006 and receiving a nomination at The Brit Awards for the single "She Moves in Her Own Way," the Kooks found themselves in mainstream media attention.

With their follow-up Konk (2008) debuting at number one on the UK Albums Chart, the group's first week sales of 65,000 increased, winning gold status in both the UK and Ireland.

Junk of the Heart, the company's third studio album, was released on September 12th.

Listen was the fourth album from the band Listen on September 8, 2014.

Let's Go Sunshine, the band's most recent album, was released on September 2nd, 2017 and topped the UK Albums Chart at No. 9.

Formation and early years (2002–2004)

The Kooks' three members (Garred, Pritchard, and Harris) all attended the BRIT School in Croydon, the three students before heading further south to join the BIMM (British and Irish Modern Music Institute), where they first met Rafferty, a Brighton-based musician. As he and Garred were out shopping for clothes one day in Primark as a joke, the spark to form a band came from Pritchard. "We had a vision on how we wanted the band to look and stuff," MTV Garred said, "we had a vision on how we wanted the band to look and stuff" — oh, we bought some clothes and these hats, it was fun." Pritchard recruited Harris and Rafferty as part of a school music project, sharing a love of the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, the Police, and David Bowie. "We got together just on a whim, really," Pritchard said. Garred and Pritchard were on search of a gig, and they were able to book their first show due to the landlord's love for their hats, according to Garred. "Well, we went in to get a gig, but I don't have a demo, so I'm going to give you a gig," Garred said. However, the band was unable to attend the performance because they were finishing off their demo at the time.

Pritchard said the first song they performed as a group was a cover version of the Strokes' "Reptilia" and took their name from the David Bowie song with the same name. The Kooks hosted an EP demo, putting it out in search of gigs, but instead of getting offers from managers and record companies, the Kooks took it out in a search of gigs. Since being spotted by several label scouts at the Brighton Free Butt Festival in 2005, the band had only been together as a unit for four months when they signed with Virgin Records. Pritchard said in a musicOMH interview, "It's really quick how it all happened, we did a demo with a friend of ours in London, which we sent off to one guy who ended up being a boss." "He called us up and it went from there." Since being young, the members of the band have since revealed that they weren't keen to sign a contract, they'd been together for two to three months, so we didn't want to sign." But then we thought it was a great opportunity and Virgin seemed to be really cool people, and they even mentioned where we were coming from: "They were patient with us and let us create our own style, whatever it was."

The Kooks were hesitant to record an album straight away after being signed to Virgin Records, citing a desire to concentrate more on their live performances and songwriting. The band has announced that they would perform an album rather than recording an album helped them develop their style and sound. "We didn't sit down with a blueprint," Pritchard said. We just naturally evolved, and we didn't want to shape or mold ourselves to something." As a result, they entered the studio with hundreds of songs from a variety of genres, and it took producer Tony Hoffer's "incredible amount of patience" to convert the text into what would become the record.

The Kooks released their debut album, Inside/Inside Out, at London's Konk studios in 2005, on their first tour supporting the Thrills. Despite the fact that media attention was dominated by the release of the Arctic Monkeys' debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not on the same day, Inside In/Inside Out reported revenues of 19,098 in the first week. Pritchard thanked the Arctic Monkeys for "shielding" the Kooks from the media's scrutiny later, speaking with NME. "God bless the Arctic Monkeys because if they weren't for them, we wouldn't have been so shielded." "I was so overshadowed by the success of Whatever People Say I Am, But What I Am Not Because it was so massive and we crept in behind everybody's back." It will eventually debut at number nine on the UK Albums Chart, and is expected to reach the top of the charts for two weeks. "Eddie's Gun," "You Don't Love Me," "Matha Song," "She Moves in Her Own Way"), and "Ooh La" were chart hits in the United Kingdom and Europe, while "Nave" and "She Moves in Her Own Way" placed the Kooks in the top ten for the first time.

"The Kooks were less irreverent and more melodic Art Brut," Kev Kharas characterized the band's witless humor for a much nicer version of honesty in his review of Drowned in Sound. In the band's style, Kharas also found traces of "emo". Tim Sendra of AllMusic said that the band's path was "heavily indebted to classic rock," in particular Thin Lizzy and the Dexys, but that Sendra felt "the Kooks sound like the Kooks and no one else." "Really forgettable, shoddily produced retro rock that looks like a Brighton-accented spin Doctors," the Kooks said. "Really forgettable, shoddfully produced mediocre rock in the United Kingdom is just as many mediocre bands in the United Kingdom as there are in the United States." Brian Belardi of Prefix gave Inside In/Inside Out a positive review, describing it as "An almost-perfect blend of '60s-style Britpop, '90s-style Britpop, and the new millennium's post-punk.

The album went on to be awarded quadruple platinum in the United Kingdom by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) within a year and a platinum across Europe by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The band's debut album brought them into mainstream media attention, winning the MTV Awards for the best UK and Ireland act in 2006 and winning the award for Best UK and Ireland at the MTV Awards in 2006 and winning a Brit Awards nomination for "She Moves in her Own Way" in 2007.

Rafferty was fired from the band on January 31, 2008, after a string of absences due to illness and long-standing rumors of his participation in the band; heroin use was also blamed as one of the reasons for his departure. Rafferty denied these allegations later, claiming that he was fired from the band because he "didn't think Konk was very good, and I said that." Dan Logan, bassist with Cat the Dog, was brought on as a temporary replacement for Rafferty. The band had considered splitting up following Rafferty's departure. "It's been really strange for us to see Dan Logan as the band's new bassist," Pritchard discussed. Dan hasn't joined the band properly yet. We're trying to get him out of his house, but I love playing with him." Peter Denton, who had previously filled in for Rafferty during the Inside In/Out touring cycle, was chosen as the permanent bassist in October 2008.

In April 2008, the Kooks released Konk, their second album. The record was released in the studio where it was recorded and produced by Tony Hoffer, who appeared on the band's debut album, Inside In/Out. "I want this album to be big," lead singer Luke Pritchard said in an interview with NME. I have an ego, and I want the album to do well. "I want our singles to come on the radio and for people to literally have their heads blown off by them." Pritchard, a guitarist from London and Los Angeles, told NME that the band had needed more involvement in their second album. "Toony is a genius, but we wanted more involvement in the development," Pritchard said.

Konk made its debut on the UK Albums Chart at number one for the first week, with 65,901 units being sold in the first week. In addition, the album produced three top-50 hits, including their highest chart performer to date, "Always Where I Need to Be," which peaked at number three. It reached number 41 on the Billboard 200, and the album's first single, "Always Where I Need to Be," debuted at number 22 on the Alternative Songs chart. Both the United Kingdom and Ireland had the album rated gold. RAK's second limited edition two disc version was also released. The name was taken from The Kooks' London studio, where they recorded seven new live tracks with the Arctic Monkeys and Mike Crossey, producer for The Zutons.

Allmusic said with Konk, The Kooks "explodes pop and rock in all their glory," while BBC Music described their second album as "a little contrived with the recycling of old guitar lines and intros." According to NME, Rafferty's departure affected Konk's production, "Konk is the sound of a band in disarray, with no one attempting to keep it together."

The Kooks revealed to BBC Newsbeat in April 2009 that they were recording their third studio album. Paul Garred, a drummer, left the band in late 2009 due to a nerve injury in his arm, and was briefly replaced by Nicholas Millard of the band Crackout, then Chris Prendergast for live shows. Garred recovered from the recording sessions in late 2010, but Pritchard later reported that his injury "has heightened into a psychological condition" in which he "feels uncomfortable playing for long stretches of time" for fear of his arm "flaring up." "We sort of barricaded ourselves in the countryside for a few weeks, and then stayed at some friends who have a cottage in Norfolk," one of the band's first major attempts at writing for this album together, according to frontman Luke Pritchard. However, the band has revealed that over the past two weeks, the band has only managed to produce one new song, "Eskimo Kiss." After hiring and firing new producer Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Adele), the band returned to former producer Tony Hoffer, who gave them a "new direction" and reimagined the album in a more modern style.

Pritchard revealed in January 2011 that they had released fourteen new songs. The band revealed on social media that they had finished the new album on March 30th, which was later announced as Junk of the Heart. "Is It Me" for Europe and "Junk of the Heart" elsewhere were the first two songs from the album. The album was released in Europe on September 9, 2011 and in the United Kingdom on September 12th. Garred appeared in the commercials for "Is It Me" and "Junk of the Heart" and "Junk of the Heart") and appeared with the band in live sessions for Live from Abbey Road and Live Lounge. However, Prendergast was still on drums, and when the band went on tour in October, they brought in session drummer Denny Weston, who stayed with the band until mid-2012. Garred's drummer, Alexis Nunez (formerly of Golden Silvers) joined the Kooks in mid-2012 as the band's new touring drummer before becoming a full member in November.

The downbeat singers of "Down" dropped on the 20th of April 20, 2014. Listen, their latest album, was released on September 8, 2014. According to reports, Luke Pritchard and Inflo, a 25-year-old London-based hip hop band, co-produced credits. Alexis Nunez, the singer's first album, is this collection. Pritchard said in a interview in July 2014 that Listen includes more evolution and discovered that "that kind of anxiety when you make the first album kind of crept back in." On the UK Albums Chart, 16 is the highest chart position, after which it fell to No. 106. The week before, there were 57, and the next week fell off the chart. Hello, What's Your Name? was a remix album for Listen, released on December 4, 2015. It includes remixes by Jack Beats, The Nextmen, Montmartre, and Kove among others. The album's critical reception was mixed, but some of the reviews called it a "complete failure both commercially and musically."

Denton spent two weeks of paternity leave to attend the birth of his second son, Jake Russell, who was the Kooks' tour drummer prior to Nunez' arrival, filled in on bass.

The Kooks announced a "Best Of" UK Tour on November 21 to celebrate their tenth anniversary as a band, in which they were planning to perform hits, b-sides, and brand new music. The band announced on March 31, 2017 that The Best of... would be released on the tour in tandem with the tour. So Far, as well as releasing "Be Who You Are," one of two new songs on the compilation. Pritchard said that this collection and tour did not hint at the end of the band's career, travel, fight, hate, and love the best and most interesting individuals I've ever encountered in my life. It's the best job in the world, and we don't want to stop any time soon."

Brandon Friesen, who had also been in charge of recording sessions for the band's upcoming studio album, helped with the two new tracks. The new album was considered more of a band effort than that of Listen, which was made individually by Pritchard, consisting of songs written by Pritchard. "This one's really 'us' – all rehearsing songs, all arranging songs, and all of them performing together." We've all had a blast on our first two albums, but now we've returned to it." "Brandon Friesen, our designer, has taken more of a role in production than me," I said, so I won't be taking the blame." On Listen, me and Inflo worked together every day. This one has been much more popular than a band record. It's been much more collaborative."

The Kooks began their tour on April 8th, 2017 with two warm up shows in Brighton's spiritual home, as well as a matinee performance at The Prince Albert pub and The Haunt; both these sold out within two hours. They then appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2017.

The Kooks revealed on May 16th that their forthcoming fifth studio album would be released on August 31, 2018. They also performed two new songs called 'No Pressure' and "All the Time" earlier this year, which they also performed live on The Best Of Tour in South America. Several songs, including 'No Pressure,' 'All the Time,' and 'Fractured and Dazed,' were available prior to the full album's release.

The band revealed on September 4th that a U.S. tour would take place in November. The band revealed on October 30th that the US tour was postponed for early 2019 due to "unforeseen circumstances." Pete Denton was back for the band's performance at the Corona Capital festival in Mexico on Friday, but Peter Randall, who had previously appeared in bass for Adele, was unable to attend. Denton was also deviated from previous shows.

By tweeting on Denton's absence, the band revealed that Denton would no longer be playing with the band. Denton replied on the same day that the situation was "complicated" and that his advisers had told him not to comment on the matter for the time being.

The Kooks made their live return to Tramlines Festival on July 20, 2021, with Jonathan Harvey on bass duties after being unable to perform in 2020 due to COVID-19.

The band's EP Connection, which featured the single "Connection," was revealed in January 2022, and the album 10 Tracks to Echo in the Dark was revealed. The band released the single "Beautiful World" in April 2022, which also stars German Duo Milky Chance. The band released another song called "Cold Heart" in June 2022.

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