The Crookes to play Hare & Hounds this Wednesday!

The Crookes live in Sheffield and infamously found (most of) each other, bleary of eyed and dancing alone, on the indie dancefloor at the city’s Fuzz Club near the close of the previous decade. Five years, 40-odd songs and hundreds of live shows down the line The Crookes are now hardly lacking in fans, followers or worthwhile friends but their new album Soapbox still sees them revel in the role of loners.

The chest-beating sound of new album Soapbox shows there is fire in the eyes lurking behind those floppy fringes, packed full of stroppy riffs and emboldened stompings, for these are rebels who barely pause for breath. You may well have been hooked by The Crookes before: on the BBC 6 Music playlist, perhaps. Or maybe supporting Richard Hawley or Little Comets, or at SXSW, or on one of their many gentlemanly excursions around Europe, including a triumphant Birmingham show at The Sunflower Lounge.

You certainly couldn’t accuse The Crookes of shirking their tidy shirt-wearing duties: working to an agenda which would cause the shrinking three-gigs-and-out violets of East London palpitations. 2014 sees The Crookes deliver this here Soapbox longplayer, thereby become the first band to release three albums on Fierce Panda since the mighty Death Cab For Cutie a decade ago.

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THE CROOKES PLAY HARE & HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM ON WEDS 23RD APRIL 2014, WITH SUPPORT FROM HIGH HAZELS. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE.

Watch the video for ‘Play Dumb’ below: