Alternative indie music stars The Kooks are returning to their Czech fans after nine years! The band will arrive with their proven hits and, most importantly, their fresh album “Never/Know” on February 25 at Prague’s Forum Karlín.
Tickets on sale from September 19, 10:00, at Ticketmaster and Ticketportal.
After 20 years as a band, The Kooks decided the only way to move forward was to stop painting over the cracks and finally do a full “renovation” of the band. As they stripped things back, analysing their history of line-up changes, ego battles and sound shifts in the process, they were left with the foundations and the core of the band, described by Hugh Harris as “a shared vision to bring joy and love in music through well-played, well-written pop. It’s that simple, almost childlike.”
After a reflective analysis of who The Kooks are and what they want to make, the solution was to return to the spirit of the debut album, not in sound, but in energy and atmosphere. During the creation of their seventh album, Never Know, Pritchard told no one what they were doing, tricking the musicians into believing they were just making demos and capturing the band in a state described by Harris as “complete and utter ease” where there was space for experimentation, fun, and a degree of messiness. “I think we’ve been hiding from that a little bit and making it a bit too easy,” Pritchard said of their past records but here, carried by the studio’s spontaneous air and a renovated and reengaged dedication to their shared vision, The Kooks got back to their best by going back to basics. In Pritchard’s own words, “I really feel like we’ve got our swagger back by letting things be and not making everything too perfect.”
The Kooks are a British indie rock band from Brighton. They have been on the scene since 2004 and were inspired by one of David Bowie’s songs when choosing their name. The band quickly gained the attention of the music public. Their first album, Inside In/Inside Out, released in 2006, remained in the British Top 20 for more than six months and sold over a million copies in the domestic market alone. It went five times platinum in the UK, double platinum in Ireland, and platinum in Australia. In the year of their debut release, The Kooks were named Best British and Irish Band at the MTV Europe Music Awards and were soon nominated for The Brit Awards. Their second album, Konk, further cemented their huge popularity when it climbed to number one on the British album charts immediately after its release.