The Crookes / Goodnight Lenin / Blemish
The Crookes are not pickpockets or pilferers, but rather were formed in a leafy Sheffield suburb of the same name.
Born from a mutual love of 60′s pop and rag-time indie, expect sing alongs, hand claps and war-time Romance.
The band formed in 2008, naming themselves after the suburb Crookes in Sheffield where the guitarists Alex Saunders and Daniel Hopewell met before later recruiting George Waite on vocals and Russell Bates on drums.
NME Magazine has featured the band in its On The Radar section, describing how “they’re harnessing the grace and guts of old-time swing and woozy Barbershop harmonies – packaging it up as the latest indie-disco bread’n’butter.”
In 2009 the band recorded a live session for Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio One with Lamacq describing the band as having “ambition and flare and a singer with a beautiful voice; one of those special, poetic voices which dips and soars above their jangling guitars.”
The Crookes have also been named as BBC 6music’s favourite new band with Lamacq later describing them as his “favourite British band of the year” on Radio 2.
