The Kooks @ Fillmore Auditorium

The Kooks rocked their show at Fillmore Auditorium on March 18, 2024 in Denver, CO. With Support from Daisy the Great and The Vaccines, it made for the perfect night.

Daisy the Great

Daisy the Great is an American indie pop band led by singer-songwriters Kelley Dugan and Mina Walker. They rose to prominence with their 2017 debut single “The Record Player Song”. Later, a remix of the song called “Record Player” was released in August 2021. There was also an additional verse and production performed by AJR. It went to number 6 on the BillboardAlternative Airplay chart.

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The Vaccines

The Vaccines have been fixtures of London’s indie rock scene in 2011. The release of their platinum-selling debut album, What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?. The favorites continued to find success both at home and abroad.

The Vaccines formed in 2010 around the talents of Justin Young, Árni Arnason, Freddie Cowan, and Pete Robertson. Evoking names like the Strokes and the Ramones, they released their debut single, “Post Break-Up Sex,” in 2011. That debut, What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?, appeared in the U.K. then in North American shores later. The LP would eventually go platinum which established the Vaccines as one of England’s most formidable modern rock bands. Released in 2012, Come of Age, the group’s sophomore outing, was produced by Ethan Johns. It became their first album to reach number one on the U.K. charts.

For their third full-length effort, the Vaccines opted for a change of pace. They traveled to America to record 2015’s English Graffiti with producer Dave Fridman and experimental hip-hop producer Cole M. Greif-Neill. English Graffiti appeared in late May 2015 and included the hit singles “Handsome” and “Dream Lover.” In 2018, the band released the fiery “I Can’t Quit”. Having replaced Robertson with Timothy Lanham and Yoann Intonti, the Vaccines continued to expand their sound. They evidenced by their punchy and dynamic fifth studio album, 2021’s Back in Love City. It would be the last studio album to feature guitarist Freddie Cowan, who left the fold the following year. Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Andrew Wells, 2024’s Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations saw the band deliver an assured yet reflective set of songs rooted in themes of loss and heartbreak.

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The Kooks

British indie rock band – formed in Brighton, England, United Kingdom in 2004. The band currently consists of Luke Pritchard (vocals, guitar), Hugh Harris (guitar), and Alexis Nunez (drums). They have released five studio albums; their 2006 debut Inside In/Inside Out peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart, and their 2008 follow up Konk reached number one. “The Junk Of The Heart (Happy)” Songfacts reports that Pritchard found himself writing lyrics containing a lot of emotional drama for their third album and the phrase ‘junk of the heart’ kept coming back to him. Junk Of The Heart was released September 12, 2011. The Kooks released two more albums: Listen (2014), and Let’s Go Sunshine (2018), which both peaked within the top 20.

The Kooks formed at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music, where they were all students. Lead singer and rhythm guitarist Luke Pritchard, got bassist Max Rafferty involved in a college project, which formed the base of the band. After getting lead guitarist Hugh Harris and drummer Paul Garred involved, they took their name from the song Kooks on the 1971 David Bowie album Hunky Dory. When they tried to trademark the name, they found that in the late/mid 1990s a Swedish band by the same name released an album in Sweden called Too Much is Not Enough.

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