I gotta chack these guys out - The Kooks (version 2 of this post)
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This is a slightly different version of what i originally posted and deleted; i discovered *after* i posted it that the Kooks video i had included was auto-play.Wrong. So here's the post without the video:Periodically, i check in at the alt.fan.kinks newsgroup (which used to be active as heck, including monthly live chat get-togethers, but is now mostly moribuind(, and today i hit a query from someone asking about the *Kooks*, who have a new album called Konk out.Naturally, any band name beginning and ending with "K" catches the eye of Kinks fans, and even ,ore ionterestingly, as many of us will know, "Konk" is the name of Ray's London studio...Hmmm.So i went looking, and "*i found an article*":http://www.musicremedy.com/t/The_Kooks/album/Konk-5066.html, from which the following excerpt is taken:
Ah-ha! There's a "*link to a bunch of videos and audio tracks*":http://www.musicremedy.com/t/The_Kooks/videos/, including one from *Late Night with Conan O'Brien*.
Anyone who's ever enjoyed (a) pop music or (b) a good night out, has plenty of reason to cheer when it comes to Konk, The Kooks' second long-player, recorded over six weeks at the tail-end of 2007 in Ray Davies' Konk Studios in north London, plus a week at Los Angeles' Sound Factory. The sessions once again united the group with esteemed producer Tony Hoffer (Beck/Air/The Fratellis). Luke: 'It was brilliant. It was like a school reunion. Tony's a genius; he's a really talented guy and he's fun to be around. We had the best time.'Okay, so now i was interested.
While James Brown's Live At The Apollo classic 'I'll Go Crazy' provided daily in-studio listening, end-of-session downtime was spent in the local Irish pub, The Kooks' soon making friends with the locals. 'The owner would give us a lock-in,' says Luke. 'We'd end up having a drink with all the Irishmen.'
'I just started thinking how cool the studio is,' says Hugh, by way of explaining how he came to suggest the album title. 'And how much of a part of our sound it is.'
Ah-ha! There's a "*link to a bunch of videos and audio tracks*":http://www.musicremedy.com/t/The_Kooks/videos/, including one from *Late Night with Conan O'Brien*.
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