Something strange has happened: The Kooks are, improbably, bigger than ever. It’s quite a feat given how big they were in the Noughties. Their 2006 debut album Inside In/Inside Out, released on the same day as Arctic Monkeys’ first album, sold two million copies; in “Naïve” it had one of the era’s best, biggest and most enduring songs. But now, a viral TikTok cover of that song has introduced The Kooks to a new generation.
Their Spotify streaming stats have reached nearly eight million a month, leading to their first ever arena tour this autumn – 45 per cent of their audience are now aged 18-24. “I’m like a proper dad now,” 40-year-old singer-songwriter Luke Pritchard says of his stage banter at gigs. “Make sure you all get home safe!”
It’s not just The Kooks, either: The Wombats and Two Door Cinema Club are two veterans of the Noughties indie scene that have grown in popularity despite the disparaging “landfill indie” term, coined to describe the proliferation of post-Libertines guitar bands that varied greatly in quality (to say the least). In a backhanded compliment, Vice once called The Kooks “the Michelangelos of the genre”.
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