The Kooks

The Kooks are an English rock band from Brighton. The Kooks' name originated from the David Bowie song "Kooks" from the album Hunky Dory. The Kooks' debut album, Inside In/Inside Out, spent more than half of 2006 in the UK Top 20 and has sold more than 1,000,000 copies in the UK. The group released Inside In/Inside Out and went on its first US tour in October 2006, selling out shows both in New York and Los Angeles.^[1]^[2]

Members

The Kooks consists of Luke Pritchard, Max Rafferty, Hugh Harris and Paul Garred. The band formed at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music.

Year	Song	UK Singles Chart	UK Download Chart	Dutch Single Chart	Album
2005	"Eddie's Gun"	#35	-	-	"Inside In/Inside Out"
2005	"Sofa Song"	#28	-	-
2006	"You Don't Love Me"	#12	-	-
2006	"Naïve"	#5	#2	tip
2006	"She Moves in Her Own Way"	#7	#8	#29 12
2006	"Ooh La"	#20	#20	-

Performed on The Album Chart Show at midnight on Saturday the 18 March 2006.
Performed at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Dundee, the largest free festival in Europe (15 May 2006).
Performed She Moves in Her Own Way on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on 9 June 2006
Performed at the T In The Park music festival on 8 July 2006.
Performed "Naïve", "She Moves In Her Own Way", "See The World" and "Seaside" in their set at Oxegen Festival in Ireland on 9 July 2006.
Performed "Naïve" live on BBC Three at Leeds Festival on 25 August 2006.
Performed a cover of the Gnarls Barkley song Crazy in Paris
Supported the Rolling Stones on their Bigger Bang Tour at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff
Performed "Ooh La", "Naive" And "She Moves In Her Own Way" at the 'Jools Holland Annual Hootenanny 2006'
Performed "Ooh La", "Naive", "She Moves In Her Own Way", "Sofa Song", "Time Awaits" and "Louby Lou' for AOL Sessions 2006 at Olympic Studios
Toured extensively in support of Disco Pigs (band) during 2006
Performed in East Slope bar at Sussex University in aid of Student Elections on February 6th 2007

In the late/mid 1990s a Swedish band by the same name released a single in Sweden called "Too Much Of Nothing".^[3]
The band refused to be interviewed on Channel 4's Popworld after, in the course of their first interview on the show, Simon Amstell made repeated references to Luke Pritchard's ex-girlfriend, Katie Melua.^[4]
The song "Naïve", which catapulted them to stardom was written by Luke Pritchard when he was 16 years old.^{[citation needed]}
Kooks is a song by David Bowie, which featured on his 1971 album Hunky Dory.
Hugh Harris and Luke Pritchard are rumored to support Brighton & Hove Albion.^{[citation needed]}
Luke Pritchard announced in an interview on a French TV show that he went to school with singer Lily Allen. This was confirmed in a Bedalian newsletter stating that they both went there for a time^{[citation needed]}.

Luke Pritchard and Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell are infamously enemies, due to comments by both, most notably, Borrell referring to The Kooks as being "...bending down, with their ars*s in the air, waiting to be f**ked by radio 1" to which Luke retailliated "Yeah, he's a w****r" (This story was told by Borrell's friend, Noel Fielding on Never Mind The Buzzcocks 02.07.07)

^ Q Magazine, December 2006, indicating Inside In/Inside Out has already spent 38 weeks in the UK Top 20 and had attained triple platinum status.
^ Among the band's honours are a nomination for Best New Act at the 2006 Q Awards and the award for Best UK and Ireland Act at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards.
^ Their entry on the Music Video Database
^ A video of the interview