Junk of the Heart

"The bands 3rd album is out September 12th..........." 

Are we kidding? I can't wait that long for The Kooks new album, they've got tour dates coming out and everything. Ohhhhh FINE I will wait, maybe some Youtube addict will hunt down the track names of the new album posted on NME's website as they were announced today. Come on you music junkies, work with me! So what songs do I have to play with? Only one. From what I can gather they have slowed down their style (if you know what I mean) but let's have our fingers crossed that they haven't grown up and gone all mysterious like a certain Alex Turner has done of late! Alex, you know I've had a crush on you since i was a fresh faced youth going through the pop to indie change. But please give us a cheeky smile in Benicassim. How rude of me, I'm here to post about The Kooks. I'll send some fancying and lusting thoughts your way too Luke.

Acting casual? I think not

"It's not about your makeup or how you try to shake up to these paper dreams... You don't pull my strings, because I'm a better man moving onto better things"

I'm sure anyone who listened to The Kooks those few years ago will be able to remember when and where they used to play their first album. For me it was being passenger to many a long car journeys to the seaside, theme parks and it usually played in the background to those little gatherings you called bbqs where the food never appeared and you were left wasted with sunburn. "Seaside" always sent me to sleep, always... and as I play it now I can feeling myself drifting off - reaching for the Diet Coke as I write............


"Do you want to see the world? Do you want to see the world?"

Oh my days how much I love "Always where I need to be". I recently got caught by another driver, passionately singing in my best Kooks voice and playing drums on my steering wheel to the song. I care not. A raised eye brow followed by a cheeky smile is all I needed from the young lad! :)

Paper dreams honey, yeahhhhh

Back to the new album, Junk of the Heart, hosts a new bassist Pete Denton. Everyone in the band seems quite confident of themselves and even front man Luke Pritchard reckons what his band are producing at the moment could surpass Britpop. As he is big pals with Jamie T, Mystery Jets and The 747s, he's thinking if they all get together they could produce something quite brilliant. Bring on this exciting new musical movement I say! What I can take from the lyrics of the only song I can get my "ears?" on, Junk of the Heart (Happy) is that the lyrics are as romantic and Kooksy as ever. Look forward to listening to their album and hopefully they'll have timed it just right to play at the big festivals next year - just like old times ey!

Signing out, fighting the boredom of these four walls!
FiftysAtHeart xx