YOU know how doting parents talk about kids being at their best at a certain age? Well, the same sometimes goes for bands when they make a decent second album, especially after a very successful first.
They've already surprised and delighted us and since come on a treat but not grown up so much that you don't recognise them, maybe even learned a few tricks. But they still display many of the subtle traits that made you fall for them in the first pl
ace.
These Brighton boys almost fit that. Except the Kooks became almost omnipresent first time around, not least with over-played Naive to the extent some of us overdosed on their stadium busk mandate. Take a bit of time out and the quartet are back not only with an album which surpasses Inside In/Inside Out but the likes of She Moves In Her Own Way return like mates who've been out of town a while.
With second album Konk to go at the hits and crowd-pleasers are sprinkled around the set like aural Viagra, re-awakening proceedings when they threaten to lull and ensuring the punters don't slip off amid any filler.
Less nasally live Luke Pritchard with his King Charles Spaniel barnet is a lively host, switching easily from mic stand-clutching frontman to acoustic guitar-hugging troubadour, and allowing his knowingly effective songs to do their work without the jabbering platitudes, leaving the crowd to decide simply whether Always Where I Need To Be hit the mark harder than Ooh La tonight.
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