The Falls Festival: Aussie bash announces bill
The Falls Music and Arts Festival takes place across two sites on December 29-January 1, in Lorne (Victoria) and Marion Bay (Tasmania), and has lined up a DiS-decent bill so far»
The Kooks News
School shooting: Kooks man lays into old music teacher
Pritchard sticks it to a naysaying music teacher»
A good konking: Pritchard decks Turner
Manbags at dawn – it’s an indie bitchfight between Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard and head Arctic Monkey Alex Turner»
The Kooks confirm: not what you know, but who you know
The Kooks' Luke Pritchard has told 6Music that it's not what you know but who you know that'll crack the stateside market»
Review: The Kooks on new Fratellis single
Kooks man Luke Pritchard has voiced his opnion on the new single from Scottish trio The Fratellis»
Chart round-up: ROFL creepers
In the singles chart it’s a week of stealthy creepers as opposed to feckless cock-floppers; Madonna ft Justin Timberlake the craftiest of them all up three places to the top spot with ‘4 Minutes’.»
Chart round-up: snowy weather, stagnant slush
Estelle might think Britain dead to her, considering the States her home nowadays, but that’s not stopped single-buying sorts of the land gobbling up copies of her ‘American Boy’ effort, which remains at number one»
Grinderman eye-up Santogold as Summercase hots up
More names have been added to the bill for this year's Summercase»
What’s this you’ve brought me? Oh, you’re The Kooks and you’ve made another stupidly-titled album
The Kooks release Konk on the 14th of April. This much we know. What seems on the face of things a simple story took a sudden twist today, however, when it came to DrownedinSound’s attention that the Brighton band would be releasing another record alongside that. It’s name? Rak»
The Kooks announce intimate show
The Kooks will play an intimate show at Liverpool's Barfly on March 6 as they gear up for the release of their second album, the quite ridiculously titled Konk»
Wetherspoons lunch: ladrock round-up, shot
The Enemy's Tom Clarke has been flapping his jaw in the direction of Arctic Monkeys who won the South Bank award for best pop album this week. Meanwhile, Max has had a falling out and left the Kooks and the Wombats have announced a huge show at the Royal Albert Hall.»
The Kooks announce spring tour
Urch-thespians the Kooks have announced a fair-sized series of live dates for the spring.»
Isle of Wight: more names confirmed
The latest raft of acts have been confirmed for the 2008 Isle of Wight Festival.»
Win tickets for Oxjam launch
Stars including Hot Chip, Jarvis Cocker, The Kooks and Fatboy Slim will will kick off the festivities for the month-long Oxjam music festival on 1st October with a series of exclusive performances in a specially-converted Oxfam shop.»
Glastonbury line-up leaks
Festival-centric website FestivalNews.co.uk has reported the leaked line-up for this summer's Glastonbury Festival...»
MTV Europe Music Awards: winners in full
The veteran synth-rock trio took home the award for the Best Group category at the Justin Timberlake-hosted event in Copenhagen. Recently in the news for totally non-musical reasons sort Madonna was nominated in three categories - Best Pop Act, Best Female and Best Album - yet won nothing...»
Xfm announces Winter Wonderland line-up
The Fratellis (pictured), Manic Street Preachers, Biffy Clyro, The View and Boy Kill Boy are among the acts confirmed for Xfm's three-date Winter Wonderland season this year...»
DiS reads about the UK charts; rewords everything; calls it an 'article'; goes for lunch.
Finally, the UK album chart has witnessed a significant shifting of top-ten artists. There are no fewer than FIVE new entries in the top ten, four of which debut in the top five. Hooray!? Let’s wait and see…»
Hooray again! The Kooks, right, they're only gonna make a second album!
There are bands, right, that when they're good they're very very good. But when they're bad they're turd...»
DiS's chart update: some bands, right, they're AWFUL...
Right now, there’s nobody else in the office. For all you know, I could be writing this week’s rundown of the movers, shakers, tinkers and tailors in the UK albums and singles charts in the nuddy. Or, at least, with my shoes off: they do rub so terribly...»
Q Awards nomination announced: strap yourself in for a flood of mediocrity!
This year's nominees for the annual Q Awards, the award ceremony offspring of dad-rock bible Q magazine, have been announced. Whoa, there, Q - way to get radical on our arses...»
The Kooks cancel shows after singer falls ill
The Kooks have been forced to cancel a handful of UK dates after singer Luke Pritchard fell ill and was told to rest his voice...»
Shoulda stuck to Kooka-Kola? Worst pun ever?
The Kooks frontman - or boy, if this story's owt to go by - Luke Pritchard was allegedly arrested for underage drinking at the weekend, reports The Daily Mirror...»
DiS play pop: chart attack, new releases...
DiS does like to play pop, from time to time, but for every ‘Back In Black’ there’s a ‘SexyBack’ just around the bend to trip you over with its initially impressive skitter and slide. To ensure you don’t suffer likewise, we’ll do our very utmost to provide you with a weekly guide to what’s what, chart-wise. So, here’s the runners and riders – and fallers and non-starters – for the week beginning July 17. THAT’S TODAY. Wow, the Romans were great…»
Download-only release could make number one
As previously reported on DiS, download single releases are now counted by chart compilers regardless of whether or not a physical version of the song in question is available in stores. This week, Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy' could be the first song to reach number one before it's properly released on CD et cetera...»
Cotton claws another rock fella
Fearne Cotton - telly presenter and MySpace 'friend' of DiS's own Sean Adams - has apparently bagged herself another rock 'n' roll man in the shape of The Kooks' Luke Pritchard. He's only 19. BAD FEARNE...»
Club Goo is go! New club/gig night launched in Cambridge
This week sees the launch of yet another new clubnight in Cambridge, with local scene veterans Greenmind and The Indie Thing teaming up to bring you Club Goo at The Soul Tree.»
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