‘There are versions of this that would make us die of embarrassment if they were heard now’ I wrote Naive when I was 15 or 16 – before we had the band – but I didn’t like it. I was quite a paranoid, ...

The moment took place on Sunday night (February 1), as the singer took to the stage as part of the ongoing ‘Back To Badlands’ anniversary tour. The shows kicked off in the US in October, and has since ...

IT was one of the indie anthems of the summer 18 years ago. And The Kooks’ Naive has lost none of its catchy charm nearly two decades later – though its lyrics are still the cause of great contention.

The Kooks might not have set out to define a moment in British indie rock, but that’s exactly what they did. “It happened very early for us, having that kind of success,” frontman Luke Pritchard ...