monteithcriss replied to your photo: Soo, although I saw them last night, I’m totally…
nooooooooooooo.
Don’t worry, I’ll take lots of pictures so you can look at them and wish you were as cool as me, but revel in the fact that you’re not as poor as me :)
Soo, although I saw them last night, I’m totally going to see the Kooks again tonight, yay!
jumpinapuddle replied to your photo: OMG, I’ve never been so happy! I fucking guessed…
oh my god. i am so jealous. so so so so so so jealous.
Okay, I can’t remember where you live, but look at these other shows they are doing too! http://www.thekooks.com/news/australia-headline-shows-announced/
OMG, I’ve never been so happy! I fucking guessed the pre-sale code, first try!!
Okay, so for anyone interested, you can buy tickets for the Perth Kooks show at the Astor here, presale is from NOW until the 7th of October (limited tickets), and the pre-sale code is “kooks” (I’m a flipping genius for figuring it out, I know). They will sell out very very soon after the normal sale starts on the 11th, so get in now while you can! The tickets go from $76 to $85 after booking fee and postage, what the fuck, but totally still worth it of course.
EXCUSE ME WHY IS THERE A FUCKING PRESALE STARTING TOMORROW MORNING AND I DIDN’T KNOW OF THIS AND I AM NOT AN ASTOR MEMBER UNTIL JUST NOW SO I HAVE NOT GOT THE EMAIL TELLING ME THE CODE AND I NEED TO GET THE FUCKING PRESALE OR I WILL DIE BEFORE NOVEMBER 8TH AND THEN I WILL DIE AN INCOMPLETE LIFE, OKAY.
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Oh hello there. Don’t mind me while I eternally flail. The Kooks know how to do a proper fucking tour. Fuck yes. Okay, Astor Theatre, that’s a bit strange, but I’ll go with it. Southbound and then the Kooks again the next day, without flying to the other side of the country? YES PLEASE, OKAY THANKS MY LIFE IS NOW COMPLETE.
I feel absolutely terrible! Because there was waaaaay (like 4,800 times) more interest than I ever expected there to be, and I don’t have enough posters (or postage money, lol) to give everyone something! I looked at ALL the notes (which took flipping hours!) and have come to a conclusion on the winners - based on obscene amounts of reblogging and/or persuasive essays. But because I suck at life I’ve picked a bunch of runners up, who will get random other fangirlish things that I own and no longer desire. So let’s get on with it! (I will tumblr-ask you guys for your address anyway)
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ko-nk, jumpinapuddle
Runners up: letsdanceto-joydivision, crissvoter (I haven’t decided what the runner up prize is because I still love all my Kooks collection, lol, but you guys were sooooo close to winning that I have to give you something)
ashtonjuilla
Mika:
heppyfathersdayfreddy, goldenalbert, bounce-bounce, blackadlerqueen
Runners up: wutup-stranger, sexycupcakemonster, golden-poodle, songsforsorrow, whizzbeeess (You will recieve a random selection of trashy uk newspapers with Mika on the front, and/or poster-quality A4 pages out of this Japanese magazine!)
Oh my god, when I get to the post office I am going to regret this.
Oh, okay. Don’t mind me while I schedule my life around a vague tweet. But I reeaaaally need to know if it’s before or after Southbound, damn it!
(Source: burger-witch)
Bianca’s amazing poster giveaway!
I’m cleaning my room out and as such rehoming most of my posters. Up for grabs here is a Kooks poster, it’s pretty huge (I’m shit at estimating, but maybe 1.5m across?) and I have two of them! One is new, one has been used, but I’ll cover postage so if you want one then all you have to do is reblog this post (you don’t have to follow if you don’t want to). If you’re really keen you can reblog as many times as you want, anything goes!
I’ll pick the winners in a week (so the 13th of September).
Pele speaking very slowly so that all the stupid people will understand him.
Pelle Fucking Almqvist is the only person who can tell 30,000 people to sit down at a music festival, get most of them to do it and keep every bit of my respect.
YES ELLEN!! I AM IN THIS VIDEO!
About 30 metres in front of this person in the second row is exactly where I was standing.
Fucking Pelle making me sit down.
Haha, The Kooks made people do this for a while, Luke Pritchard can make 40,000 people sit down at a festival, in a language he doesn’t speak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4QbmjtM8HM&t=2m55s
(via monteithcriss)
THE KOOKS MASTERPOST
I feel like I’ve taken so much from all the masterposts going around Tumblr that I should give something back. And really, the only thing I think I’m qualified to give back would be the entire catalogue of every Kooks song ever, which I happen to believe I have the most comprehensive list of. So here goes.
Inside In Inside Out (.zip of whole album)
Seaside | See The World | Sofa Song | Eddie’s Gun | Ooh La | You Don’t Love Me | She Moves In Her Own Way | Match Box | Naive | I Want You | If Only | Jackie Big Tits | Time Awaits | Got No Love
See The Sun | Always Where I Need To Be | Mr Maker | Do You Wanna | Gap | Love It All | Stormy Weather | Sway | Shine On | Down To The Market | One Last Time | Tick of Time | All Over Town
Rak (.zip) The second CD from the Limited Edition of Konk
Watching The Ships Roll In | Eaten By Your Lover | No Longer | Fa La La | Nothing Ever Changes | By My Side | Hatful of Love | See The Sun (Alternate Version) | Brooklyn (Home Demo)
B-Sides (.zip)
Always Free | Ask Me | Be Mine | Bus Song | California | Come On Down | Do You Love Me Still | Give In | Hiding Low | I Don’t Mind | I Love That Girl | In My Opinion | It Can Be So Hard | Lonely Cat | Louby Loo | Mrs Thompson | Put Your Back To My Face | Slave To The Game | Something To Say | Stole Away | Tea and Biscuits | Tell Them From Me | The Window Song | Walk Away
Demos (.zip) Pretty much any original songs that can’t fit anywhere else, some of them are live versions.
Bad Taste In My Mouth | Belly Love | Be Your Boy | Clouds Are Falling Around Me | Disappear | Carried Away | Come Home | Do You Love Her | Don’t Go | Don’t You Leave Me | Hard To Bear | I Already Miss You | I Need Your Love | I’m On Your Side | I Wanna Be There (live) | No Need For Territory | Oil | Princess Blue | Princess of my Mind | Pull Me In | Rainbow | Sailing | Saboteur | Strange One | The King and I | Vicious | When She Was Mine | When She’s In Town | Window to the Soul
‘First Demo’ (.zip) These are super old recordings they made which are really interesting, you can see how they cut and pasted different bits together for the final versions.
1984 | Bus Song | Gap | Her Own Way | If Only | In My Opinion | Lession No 3 | Matchbox | Naive (1.618) | Pull Me In | Sofa Song | Something To Say | Suburbs | Tell Them From Me
Covers (.zip)
All That She Wants (Ace of Base) | Are You Ready For Love (Elton John) | Crazy (Gnarls Barkley, itunes) | Crazy (Gnarls Barkley, v2) | Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen) | Despair in The Departure Lounge (Arctic Monkeys) | For Lovers (Pete Doherty) | Just Like a Woman (Bob Dylan) | Kids (MGMT) | Love To Love You, v2(Bob Pritchard) | Observatory Crest (Captain Beefheart) | Roxanne (The Police) | Stormy Weather (Ted Koehler) | Sweet Jane/Beast of Burden (The Velvet Underground and Rolling Stones) | The Key (Oust Est Le Swimming Pool) | Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan) | Victoria (The Kinks, acoustic) | Victoria (The Kinks, War Child album) | Violet Hill (Coldplay) | Young Folks (Peter, Bjorn and John Cover)
Live A selection of HQ live recordings.
Acoustic Secret Show (2008) | Ancienne Belgique (2006) | AOL Session (2008) | Astoria(2006) | HMV Live (2006) | iTunes Apple Store (2008) | iTunes Session (2007) | Maidstone (2008) | Parkpop (2006) | Rock Am Ring (2007) | T in the Park (2008) | Tokyo Summer Sonic (2006) | Zoo Session (2008)
Junk of the Heart (.zip) New album! It will be released September 13th, but here’s what’s out so far, mostly in live renditions.
Junk Of The Heart (Happy)* | How’d You Like That | Rosie | Taking Pictures Of You | Killing Me | Fuck The World Off | Time Above The Earth | Runaway | Is It Me* | Petulia | Eskimo Kiss | Mr. Nice Guy (I’ll add more as they come into existence! * means it’s the actual album version)
Here’s one last surprise for anyone who’s seen them live. I have way more live versions and also instrumentals, alternative recordings and edits of songs if anyone is really that interested. Tell me if anything stops working and I hope I’ve made someone out there happy!
Is It Me - The Kooks
Hmm, I think the video is a bit stupid/boring. I like the song though, yay! :D
The Kooks’ playing “Junk of the Heart (Happy)” {new song}
This is too lovely
Haha yeah, I went and looked this video up afterwards too, I heaps prefer this version to the studio one.
(via llsptrsfam)
Junk of the Heart (Happy) - The Kooks
New Single!! Again, it seems more mastered than their old albums? But I do love it. This one’s very cheerful and uplifting, I can’t wait to hear the rest of the album asdfghdfghdfghgfdfgh.
Victoria - The Kooks (cover of the Kinks song)
A live version of this song (by The Kinks) has been added to the Beacon playlist. When new songs get added they play more often than the others so I’ve been hearing it all the time. Which reminds me of the Kooks and this makes me happy.
Although I don’t know what to think of their new song yet. I mean, I’m not saying it’s bad, and I’m sure I will still love the new album. But, they’ve changed their style. Of course, it’s great to grow and not be the same all the time, but it was kind of their ‘thing’ to record all their songs just as a group of friends sitting in the recording room together (like, this cut was one of the tracks on their last album, and I love that). But The Saboteur has obviously had a lot of effort put into putting it together. And sure, I love heaps of bands/people who spend months putting each song together for their albums … but the Kooks were one of the bands who stood out for exactly not that reason. Oh well, we’ll see I guess!
