July 3, 200817 yr The Kooks perform at Maida Vale in the Live Lounge minus drummer Paul who's hurt his arm. The group have a busy festival schedule lined up for the Summer including V Festival, T in the Park and Oxygen. Lead guitarist and vocalist Hugh talks about their festival experiences and his highlights so far being seeing MGMT and Radiohead. The band respond to whether they would ever perform at a festival organised by David 'The Hoff' Hasslehoff and their experience on an American phone-in show where they had to give sex advice to callers! They talk about being best known in the U.S. for their cover version of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy from their previous Live Lounge on Radio 1. The group explain why they enjoyed making their second studio album, The Konk, as they had the freedom to be as creative as they wanted even though former bassist Max Rafferty left during the making of the album. Hugh revealed that Max is still making music and is forming a new band. Hear the Kooks perform a live lullaby version of their single Shine On and a cover of one of Hugh's favourite singles by Coldplay, the number one hit, Violet Hill. Listen to the interview and songs here (is about 16 mins in) : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio1_aod.shtml?radio1/whiley_kooks
July 3, 200817 yr Author Violin is interesting on it. Aye, I like that they did something different with it. Don't like his voice though :P
July 3, 200817 yr Author I don't think so, the radio usually works fines overseas. Angie listened to it and she's in America. It seems to work better with Internet Explorer if that's any help.
July 3, 200817 yr Amazing, I like it that they gave it their own twist. Here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/126897797/The_Kooks_-_Violet_Hill.mp3.html http://www.sendspace.com/file/jns2ym
July 3, 200817 yr Linky linky[/url] to multimedia :wink: I like their version, really nice one :nice: thanks !! It's not bad actually :)
July 3, 200817 yr Nothing wrong with a band covering a band they like. It's a nice twist on the original, good stuff :)
July 3, 200817 yr Heard this when I was in work this morning. I thought they'll never do Coldplay..so was very pleasantly surprised. I really liked this version. Cheered up my boring morning at work, anyway. Thanks for the upload! :)
July 3, 200817 yr Aw, that was really, really good. :nice: I loved the way they arranged it and his voice was perfect for it. :thumbsup:
July 4, 200817 yr Linky linky[/url] to multimedia :wink: I like their version, really nice one :nice: word!
Create an account or sign in to comment