The Kooks are getting a number of love from the brand new bands they meet – however that they had no concept who Fontaines D.C. have been after they met the Irish post-punk rockers.
The Kooks are again with their new album
The indie band – comprised of authentic members, singer Luke Pritchard and guitarist Hugh Harris – have simply launched their seventh studio album ‘By no means/Know’ and 19 years after they began out they’re comfortable to tackle the mantle of elder statesmen of rock.
The Kooks have been instructed by quite a few bands and artists they run into that they’re followers of the group, however Hugh admits he had a clumsy assembly with Fontaines D.C. – who’re fronted by Grian Chatten – as he did not know who they have been and did not realise they have been so widespread.
Talking to ContactMusic.com, Hugh mentioned: “Final summer season I needed to Google Fontaines D.C., I used to be outdoors our dressing room they usually got here to say hello and provides their respect and like to the band. I used to be like, ‘Who the heck are they?’ Then I used to be like, ‘Oh my god they’re big!’ It’s good to have that assist from either side.”
Luke admits it has been a brand new expertise to be instructed by so many fellow artists that they’re followers of the band’s songs, which embrace the hit single Naïve’, as a result of they didn’t really feel that a lot love after they first launched their debut LP ‘Inside In / Inside Out’ in 2006.
The ‘Ooh La’ singer mentioned: “Everybody loves us now. It didn’t was once like that!”
“We’re fortunate like that.”
Luke – who together with Hugh is heading out on a UK area tour later this 12 months – additionally will get instructed by youthful followers that their music was widespread with their dad and mom after they have been rising up.
He added: “The factor that I hear quite a bit about The Kooks, which is possibly a unique-ish factor to us, I at all times hear the identical factor, which is, ‘I used to hearken to The Kooks within the automobile with my dad and mom and my youthful brother.’ It’s at all times an intergenerational factor. Their dad and mom would get us as a result of they might hear The Kinks and The Beatles and Bob Dylan and the youngsters favored us, too.”
Luke believes that the 2000s period of British indie rock music is lastly getting the popularity it deserves as an period of rock ‘n’ roll in its personal proper.
He mentioned: “There’s an enormous appreciation of it now.
“What we’re seeing as The Kooks – I can’t converse for different bands of our era – is the younger folks now, the youngsters, are entering into our music, which is loopy. I assume that exhibits the appreciation of what it was and the carrying on of guitar music, rock ‘n’ roll, which is extra of a form of mentality than something.
After Britpop you had a number of storage and stuff like that. Then White Stripes and The Strokes got here alongside and we as Brits answered it.”
