Brighton's finest, The Kooks, will help restore faith in the holy grail of English singer-songwriting when they play a sell-out gig at Southampton Guildhall on Monday, December 18.
It's a blue-blooded lineage that stretches from the Kinks to Blur and Supergrass, yet The Kooks have entered this Royal household with their own quality mix of poignant muses, tormented angst and cheerful irreverence.
The end result is a collection of top songs crammed full of incidents on buses, bedroom mishaps and stinging teenage putdowns. In short, a breath of long-awaited fresh air.
Refreshing then that this rarest of pop entities - named after the track on Bowie's Hunky Dory masterpiece - scooped the best UK and Ireland catergory at the MTV Europe Music Awards, nudging aside The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys in the process.
Keep an eye out at the box office for any returns.
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