The Cribs
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The Cribs are an English
three-piece indie rock
band from Wakefield
, West Yorkshire
. The band consists of twins Gary
and Ryan Jarman
and their younger brother Ross Jarman
. They were subsequently joined by ex-The Smiths
and Modest Mouse
guitarist Johnny Marr
who was made a formal member of the group in 2008. Marr would remain as part of the band until 2011; his departure was officially announced on 11 April through the band's website. Despite returning to the original trio, the band currently enlists David Jones of Nine Black Alps
as a second guitarist for live shows. The band, who first became active on the concert circuit in 2002, were initially tied to other like-minded UK bands of that time, most notably The Libertines
, by a British music press that were looking for a 'British rearguard' to the wave of popular US alternative rock bands of the time. In 2008, Q
magazine described the band as "The biggest cult band in the UK".
; a handshake deal to release a one-off 7" was agreed soon after. Primarily a punk/garage/riot grrrl-based label, Squirrel was still in its infancy at this point, and the single "Baby Don't Sweat/You & I" (a split 7" with Jen Schande) didn't materialise until 2002. It was recorded by the band at their own Springtime Studios, a lo-fi all analogue set-up in an ancient mill.
The band has released four albums on the Wichita
label - self-titled debut The Cribs
in 2004, The New Fellas
in 2005, Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
in 2007 and Ignore The Ignorant
in 2009. Known for their staunchly purist approach to recording, the band have often been labeled as 'Lo-Fi'. Significantly, their debut album was recorded in seven days at London's Toe Rag Studio, onto 8-track. Toe Rag Studio is known for its vintage set-up which is as authentic to an original 1960s studio as is possible in the modern day. Parts of this record were taken from the original sessions the band recorded with Chicago-based avant-garde musician Bobby Conn
.
The New Fellas
, the band's second album release, was recorded with Edwyn Collins
, the singer-songwriter and guitarist from Glasgow's influential Orange Juice
in London at his own studio. Again, it was a comparatively unpolished record sonically, as both the producer Collins and the band themselves were achieving sounds similar to those heard on the Orange Juice
records. This was, however, the intention and the reason the band and producer were put together. It was leaked onto the internet several months before the official release date, which hampered its chart placement – it has since however been certified a silver record by the BPI. B-sides from this period were self-produced by the band at their Springtime Studios.
Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever saw the band finally take steps to progress forth from their 'lo-fi' roots, being recorded in Canada
with Alex Kapranos
of Franz Ferdinand
as producer. The album was mixed by Andy Wallace
(Nirvana
, Foo Fighters
). The album was released on 21 May 2007 and was preceded by a single, "Men's Needs
", on 7 May, which reached #17.
Currently, the bands last seven chart-eligible single releases have charted inside the UK Top 40.
Their song "Martell" from The New Fellas
release was featured in the Canadian Telus
commercial.
The band appeared on Later with Jools Holland
in May 2007, prior to the release of Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever, where they played the songs "Men's Needs", "Our Bovine Public" and "I'm a Realist". "Men's Needs" is the band's biggest hit to date, reaching number 17 in the UK charts. The track has also picked up many accolades, including being named 3rd-best track of 2007 by NME
, Track of the Year 2007 by the Metro paper and finishing in the 100 best tracks in Rolling Stone
magazine in the USA.
Their song "Hey Scenesters!
" was listed in NME's "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Of All Time". The band were one of only a few contemporary bands included in the list.
They appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
on 18 July 2007, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
on 27 July 2007 and The Late Show with David Letterman on 18 March 2008.
Recently, the band were personally invited to support the Sex Pistols
at four of their five comeback concerts in Brixton
in November. In November 2007, The Cribs were named as the headlining act of the 2008 NME Awards Tour. They were nominated for four NME awards: Best British Band, Best Live Act, Best Track ("Men's Needs") and Hero Of The Year (Ryan Jarman
), but won none of these awards. In February 2008, they released "I'm A Realist"/"Bastards of Young", the latter a cover
of a song by The Replacements.
Johnny Marr
, former guitarist for The Smiths
, would become a full-time member of the band in 2008. In an interview with Baeblemusic.com, Ross Jarman said they met Marr at "the Glastonbury Festival and have been jamming together for the last couple years".
The band's fourth album Ignore The Ignorant
was recorded with post-punk producer Nick Launay
at Los Angeles
' Seedy Underbelly studios and released in the United States
on 7 September 2009, preceded by first single "Cheat On Me".
In December 2009, Ignore The Ignorant
was placed at number 11 in Mojo magazine's "Albums Of The Year", and at number 7 in The Fly
's "Albums Of The Year". At the same time, The New Fellas
was named an "Album Of The Century" by Q
.
On 9 August 2010, Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe
announced during his show that he would be playing a brand new Cribs song that night. The very next day, "Housewife" was released officially on iTunes. No one, from music industry insiders to the band's fans, had any idea that a new single was being geared up until that moment.
On 11 April 2011, the band confirmed that Marr would no longer be part of the band, while Marr also released a statement saying that he would be working on solo material. Earlier in the year, the band announced their plans to work on their fifth album after the summer's festival season.
As of November 2011, the band is in the process of recording their fifth album for release in 2012. According to an interview in The Fly, the producers are Dave Fridmann
(The Flaming Lips) and David Richards
(Queen).
In November 2007, they were invited by The Sex Pistols to support them for 4 nights at the Brixton Academy to mark the 30th anniversary of their Never Mind The Bollocks album.
In 2008, The Cribs headlined the Radio1/NME stage at the Leeds Festival
, and the Reading Festival. The Cribs, along with The Subways
and Frank Turner
are also the only bands in the festivals history to progress through all the festivals stages in consecutive years, Carling Stage (2004), Radio1/NME Stage (2005), Main Stage (2006) - though The Cribs would trump them due to a performance they made on the Comedy Stage in 2002 and a headlining set on the Radio1/NME Stage in 2008. The band were announced as one of the acts to perform on the main stage in 2010.
On 8 December 2008, NME
announced that the band would be playing a short UK
tour to promote their latest album, due to be recorded shortly after. The tour visits a number of small intimate venues, including The Ritz
in Manchester
, London
's Heaven
, the ABC
in Glasgow
and St George's Hall
in Bradford
.
The band announced a UK tour to support the new album. It ran from 24 September 2009 to 15 October 2009 and takes in 14 venues. Afterwards, they had dates in Japan, New York, Los Angeles, and Europe (supporting Franz Ferdinand in the latter) before another four UK gigs in December, which saw them headline their first arena when they played Doncaster Dome. January 2010 saw a full tour of the U.S. and Canada. In February 2010, they toured Australia and New Zealand - playing in Wellington on 26 February and Auckland on the 27th. In June 2011, the band played its first shows in Brazil.
The Cribs have announced they will be playing at Get Loaded In The Park
2011 on Clapham Common, London on Sunday 12 June.
They will also be playing at Latitude Festival 2011 in Suffolk, England on Saturday 16 July at the Obelisk Arena.
The played, on the 20the of July in Paris at the Zenith
, before the Strokes
.
from Sonic Youth
collaborated with the band on their third album. The track "Be Safe" is a Ranaldo spoken word
piece performed by the artist, and backed with The Cribs' music. They have a history of collaborations with artists such as Edwyn Collins
(Orange Juice
), Jon Slade (Huggy Bear, Comet Gain
), Bobby Conn
(Bobby Conn and The Glass Gypsies), Bernard Butler
(Suede
, McAlmont and Butler
), Joe Plummer
(Modest Mouse
), the aforementioned Lee Ranaldo
(Sonic Youth) and Alex Kapranos
(Franz Ferdinand).
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
three-piece indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
band from Wakefield
Wakefield
Wakefield is the main settlement and administrative centre of the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England. Located by the River Calder on the eastern edge of the Pennines, the urban area is and had a population of 76,886 in 2001....
, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
. The band consists of twins Gary
Gary Jarman
Gary John Jarman is a British multi-instrumentalist, best known for being bassist and singer in the Wakefield music group The Cribs....
and Ryan Jarman
Ryan Jarman
Ryan James Jarman is the guitarist and vocalist with English rock band The Cribs.-The Cribs:Ryan formed The Cribs in the early 2000s with his identical twin brother Gary and younger brother Ross....
and their younger brother Ross Jarman
Ross Jarman
Ross Anthony Jarman is the drummer with English rock band The Cribs.-The Cribs:Ross was born and raised in Wakefield, England....
. They were subsequently joined by ex-The Smiths
The Smiths
The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
and Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. They are based in Portland, Oregon. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think...
guitarist Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr is an English musician and songwriter. Marr rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in The Smiths, with whom he formed a prolific songwriting partnership with Morrissey. Marr has been a member of Electronic, The The, and Modest Mouse...
who was made a formal member of the group in 2008. Marr would remain as part of the band until 2011; his departure was officially announced on 11 April through the band's website. Despite returning to the original trio, the band currently enlists David Jones of Nine Black Alps
Nine Black Alps
Nine Black Alps are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester, named after a line in The Couriers by Sylvia Plath and fronted by Sam Forrest.-Career:...
as a second guitarist for live shows. The band, who first became active on the concert circuit in 2002, were initially tied to other like-minded UK bands of that time, most notably The Libertines
The Libertines
The Libertines were an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât and Pete Doherty . The band, centred on the song-writing partnership of Barat and Doherty, also included John Hassall and Gary Powell for most of its recording career...
, by a British music press that were looking for a 'British rearguard' to the wave of popular US alternative rock bands of the time. In 2008, Q
Q (magazine)
Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology...
magazine described the band as "The biggest cult band in the UK".
History
Formed in 2001, The Cribs began gigging locally and caught the eye of Leeds-based indie Squirrel RecordsSquirrel Records
Squirrel Records is a UK based record company based in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, founded in 1994 by Simon Squirelle, former manager of 90's artists Candyman, The U-Krew, and the Funhouse presenter Pat Sharp....
; a handshake deal to release a one-off 7" was agreed soon after. Primarily a punk/garage/riot grrrl-based label, Squirrel was still in its infancy at this point, and the single "Baby Don't Sweat/You & I" (a split 7" with Jen Schande) didn't materialise until 2002. It was recorded by the band at their own Springtime Studios, a lo-fi all analogue set-up in an ancient mill.
The band has released four albums on the Wichita
Wichita Recordings
Wichita Recordings is an independent record label located in London, founded in 2000 by Mark Bowen and Dick Green. Its most notable signees are Bloc Party, The Cribs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Her Space Holiday, Los Campesinos! and Peter Bjorn and John...
label - self-titled debut The Cribs
The Cribs (album)
The Cribs was the title of The Cribs' debut album released in 2004. It was recorded in 7 days in mid/late 2003 at London's Toe-Rag Studios, a vintage styled 8 track studio in the Hackney area...
in 2004, The New Fellas
The New Fellas
The New Fellas was the title of The Cribs' second album released in 2005. It placed at #11 in the NME's 'Albums Of The Year' in 2005. The song "Hey Scenesters!" was placed 42nd in a poll for the top 50 Indie anthems of all time, which was published in the influential music magazine NME in May 2007,...
in 2005, Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever is The Cribs' third album, released on 21 May 2007. It reached 13 on the UK Album Charts. Critically acclaimed, it was voted #9 in the annual 'Albums Of The Year' in influential UK music magazine NME, amongst various other end-of-year lists...
in 2007 and Ignore The Ignorant
Ignore the Ignorant
Ignore the Ignorant is the fourth studio album by the British band The Cribs. The album was released in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2009 via Wichita Recordings, following the release of the first single "Cheat on Me" on 31 August...
in 2009. Known for their staunchly purist approach to recording, the band have often been labeled as 'Lo-Fi'. Significantly, their debut album was recorded in seven days at London's Toe Rag Studio, onto 8-track. Toe Rag Studio is known for its vintage set-up which is as authentic to an original 1960s studio as is possible in the modern day. Parts of this record were taken from the original sessions the band recorded with Chicago-based avant-garde musician Bobby Conn
Bobby Conn
Bobby Conn is an American musician based in Chicago, Illinois, known for his pop-rock. He often collaborates with other artists such as musicians Colby Starck and Jim O'Rourke, and film-maker Usama Alshaibi. In 2003, Conn produced a session for UK punk band The Cribs, whom he met when they were a...
.
The New Fellas
The New Fellas
The New Fellas was the title of The Cribs' second album released in 2005. It placed at #11 in the NME's 'Albums Of The Year' in 2005. The song "Hey Scenesters!" was placed 42nd in a poll for the top 50 Indie anthems of all time, which was published in the influential music magazine NME in May 2007,...
, the band's second album release, was recorded with Edwyn Collins
Edwyn Collins
Edwyn Stephen Collins is an Ivor Novello Award winning Scottish musician, playing mostly electric guitar-driven pop. Collins formed the musical group Nu-Sonics in 1976, which later became Orange Juice...
, the singer-songwriter and guitarist from Glasgow's influential Orange Juice
Orange Juice
Orange Juice was a Scottish post-punk band founded in the middle class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden as the Nu-Sonics in 1976. Edwyn Collins formed the Nu-Sonics with his school-mate Alan Duncan and was subsequently joined by James Kirk and Steven Daly, who left a band called The Machetes. The band...
in London at his own studio. Again, it was a comparatively unpolished record sonically, as both the producer Collins and the band themselves were achieving sounds similar to those heard on the Orange Juice
Orange Juice
Orange Juice was a Scottish post-punk band founded in the middle class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden as the Nu-Sonics in 1976. Edwyn Collins formed the Nu-Sonics with his school-mate Alan Duncan and was subsequently joined by James Kirk and Steven Daly, who left a band called The Machetes. The band...
records. This was, however, the intention and the reason the band and producer were put together. It was leaked onto the internet several months before the official release date, which hampered its chart placement – it has since however been certified a silver record by the BPI. B-sides from this period were self-produced by the band at their Springtime Studios.
Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever saw the band finally take steps to progress forth from their 'lo-fi' roots, being recorded in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
with Alex Kapranos
Alex Kapranos
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley , commonly known as Alex Kapranos, is a United Kingdom-based musician who is the lead singer and the guitarist of the Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand.-Early life:...
of Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand (band)
Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish post-punk revival band formed in Glasgow in 2002. The band is composed of Alex Kapranos , Bob Hardy , Nick McCarthy , and Paul Thomson .The band first experienced chart success when their second single, "Take Me Out", reached #3 in...
as producer. The album was mixed by Andy Wallace
Andy Wallace (producer)
Andy Wallace is a Grammy Award-winning music studio engineer with a long track record of successful productions, beginning with the 1986 production of the Run-DMC/Aerosmith collaboration on "Walk This Way" with Rick Rubin...
(Nirvana
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
, Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters is an American alternative rock band originally formed in 1994 by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of his previous band. The band got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War...
). The album was released on 21 May 2007 and was preceded by a single, "Men's Needs
Men's Needs
"Men's Needs" is the first single from British indie rock band The Cribs' third album Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever, which was released on 14 May 2007. It was available to listen to on the band's MySpace page. It was recorded in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2006 and was produced by Franz...
", on 7 May, which reached #17.
Currently, the bands last seven chart-eligible single releases have charted inside the UK Top 40.
Their song "Martell" from The New Fellas
The New Fellas
The New Fellas was the title of The Cribs' second album released in 2005. It placed at #11 in the NME's 'Albums Of The Year' in 2005. The song "Hey Scenesters!" was placed 42nd in a poll for the top 50 Indie anthems of all time, which was published in the influential music magazine NME in May 2007,...
release was featured in the Canadian Telus
TELUS
Telus is a national telecommunications company in Canada that provides a wide range of telecommunications products and services including internet access, voice, entertainment, video, and satellite television. The company is based in Burnaby, British Columbia, part of Greater Vancouver...
commercial.
The band appeared on Later with Jools Holland
Later with Jools Holland
Later... with Jools Holland is a contemporary British music television show hosted by Jools Holland. A spin-off of The Late Show, it has been running in short series since 1992 and is a part of BBC Two's late-night line-up, usually at around 11pm to 12 midnight...
in May 2007, prior to the release of Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever, where they played the songs "Men's Needs", "Our Bovine Public" and "I'm a Realist". "Men's Needs" is the band's biggest hit to date, reaching number 17 in the UK charts. The track has also picked up many accolades, including being named 3rd-best track of 2007 by NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
, Track of the Year 2007 by the Metro paper and finishing in the 100 best tracks in Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
magazine in the USA.
Their song "Hey Scenesters!
Hey Scenesters!
"Hey Scenesters!" was the first single from English post-punk revival band The Cribs second album The New Fellas. The single charted at number 27 in April 2005, becoming their first Top 40 single...
" was listed in NME's "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Of All Time". The band were one of only a few contemporary bands included in the list.
They appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 am...
on 18 July 2007, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is a Peabody Award-winning American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson. Ferguson, the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise, follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup...
on 27 July 2007 and The Late Show with David Letterman on 18 March 2008.
Recently, the band were personally invited to support the Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
at four of their five comeback concerts in Brixton
Brixton
Brixton is a district in the London Borough of Lambeth in south London, England. It is south south-east of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London....
in November. In November 2007, The Cribs were named as the headlining act of the 2008 NME Awards Tour. They were nominated for four NME awards: Best British Band, Best Live Act, Best Track ("Men's Needs") and Hero Of The Year (Ryan Jarman
Ryan Jarman
Ryan James Jarman is the guitarist and vocalist with English rock band The Cribs.-The Cribs:Ryan formed The Cribs in the early 2000s with his identical twin brother Gary and younger brother Ross....
), but won none of these awards. In February 2008, they released "I'm A Realist"/"Bastards of Young", the latter a cover
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of a song by The Replacements.
Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr is an English musician and songwriter. Marr rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in The Smiths, with whom he formed a prolific songwriting partnership with Morrissey. Marr has been a member of Electronic, The The, and Modest Mouse...
, former guitarist for The Smiths
The Smiths
The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
, would become a full-time member of the band in 2008. In an interview with Baeblemusic.com, Ross Jarman said they met Marr at "the Glastonbury Festival and have been jamming together for the last couple years".
The band's fourth album Ignore The Ignorant
Ignore the Ignorant
Ignore the Ignorant is the fourth studio album by the British band The Cribs. The album was released in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2009 via Wichita Recordings, following the release of the first single "Cheat on Me" on 31 August...
was recorded with post-punk producer Nick Launay
Nick Launay
Nick Launay is an English record producer and recording engineer. He is currently one of the most sought after producers in the world due to his current success with recent albums by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds...
at Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
' Seedy Underbelly studios and released in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
on 7 September 2009, preceded by first single "Cheat On Me".
In December 2009, Ignore The Ignorant
Ignore the Ignorant
Ignore the Ignorant is the fourth studio album by the British band The Cribs. The album was released in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2009 via Wichita Recordings, following the release of the first single "Cheat on Me" on 31 August...
was placed at number 11 in Mojo magazine's "Albums Of The Year", and at number 7 in The Fly
The Fly (magazine)
The Fly is a free music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. The magazine is published by the HMV owned MAMA Group.The magazine started as a listings leaflet in Camden, north London, for the Barfly music venue on Chalk Farm Road...
's "Albums Of The Year". At the same time, The New Fellas
The New Fellas
The New Fellas was the title of The Cribs' second album released in 2005. It placed at #11 in the NME's 'Albums Of The Year' in 2005. The song "Hey Scenesters!" was placed 42nd in a poll for the top 50 Indie anthems of all time, which was published in the influential music magazine NME in May 2007,...
was named an "Album Of The Century" by Q
Q (magazine)
Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology...
.
On 9 August 2010, Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe also known as 'Zipper', is a radio DJ and television presenter. He was born in New Zealand and grew up in Auckland, where he was a presenter on the local music station Max TV, before moving to England...
announced during his show that he would be playing a brand new Cribs song that night. The very next day, "Housewife" was released officially on iTunes. No one, from music industry insiders to the band's fans, had any idea that a new single was being geared up until that moment.
On 11 April 2011, the band confirmed that Marr would no longer be part of the band, while Marr also released a statement saying that he would be working on solo material. Earlier in the year, the band announced their plans to work on their fifth album after the summer's festival season.
As of November 2011, the band is in the process of recording their fifth album for release in 2012. According to an interview in The Fly, the producers are Dave Fridmann
Dave Fridmann
Dave Fridmann is an American record producer and musician. From 1990 onwards he co-produced all releases by Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips...
(The Flaming Lips) and David Richards
David Richards (record producer)
David Richards is an English-born Swiss-based record producer, engineer and musician. In the Mountain Studios in Montreux, owned by the rock band Queen, and in Attalens he engineered and co-produced many albums by Queen, David Bowie and other artists. Richards also played keyboards on some records...
(Queen).
Live performances
Known for their raucous, unpredictable live shows the band have built-up a fanatical following due to a heavy touring schedule since the release of the first record. Their DIY ethic also led to them touring independently, when they were supposed to be off the road writing. Although this contributed to the band's success, and much larger venues, the band have always claimed to be more at home doing things in that way. On their first tour back after recording the third record in early 2007 the band returned to their roots and held some gigs in very small, intimate venues, including a show in their hometown at the Wakefield Escobar and another at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds (a venue they used to play at when they first started out). In June, they returned to Leeds at the climax of their full-size UK tour with two consecutive sold out nights at the University Refectory (the first band to do this since Ian Dury and the Blockheads 30 years ago). They subsequently came back and accomplished the same feat in 2008, after the show being presented with an award by the University for being the first band in its history to have '2 consecutive years of 2 consecutive nights of sell-out shows at Leeds University Refectory'.In November 2007, they were invited by The Sex Pistols to support them for 4 nights at the Brixton Academy to mark the 30th anniversary of their Never Mind The Bollocks album.
In 2008, The Cribs headlined the Radio1/NME stage at the Leeds Festival
Leeds Festival
Leeds Festival may refer to:*Reading and Leeds Festivals , a rock music festival in Leeds , West Yorkshire, England*Leeds Festival , European classical music festival in Leeds...
, and the Reading Festival. The Cribs, along with The Subways
The Subways
The Subways are an English alternative rock / indie rock band. Their debut album, Young For Eternity, was released on 4 July 2005 in the UK and February 14, 2006 in the U.S. Their second album, All or Nothing, was released on 30 June 2008 and their third album Money and Celebrity debuted on the...
and Frank Turner
Frank Turner
Frank Turner is an English folk/punk singer-songwriter from Meonstoke, Winchester. Initially the vocalist of post-hardcore band Million Dead, Turner embarked upon a primarily acoustic-based solo career following the band's split in 2005. To date, Turner has released four solo albums, two rarities...
are also the only bands in the festivals history to progress through all the festivals stages in consecutive years, Carling Stage (2004), Radio1/NME Stage (2005), Main Stage (2006) - though The Cribs would trump them due to a performance they made on the Comedy Stage in 2002 and a headlining set on the Radio1/NME Stage in 2008. The band were announced as one of the acts to perform on the main stage in 2010.
On 8 December 2008, NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
announced that the band would be playing a short UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
tour to promote their latest album, due to be recorded shortly after. The tour visits a number of small intimate venues, including The Ritz
The Ritz (Manchester)
The Manchester Ritz is a live music venue in Whitworth Street West in Manchester.It won Manchester's Best Bar None and Club awards for 2006/2007, which are organised by the Greater Manchester Police....
in Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, London
London
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's Heaven
Heaven
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, the ABC
ABC Glasgow
The O2 ABC is a nightclub and music venue on Sauchiehall Street, in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland's largest city. The building was constructed in 1875 but was largely rebuilt in the 1920s. It had been put to a number of uses before being converted for its current purpose between 2002 and 2005. In...
in Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
and St George's Hall
St George's Hall, Bradford
St George's Concert Hall is a grade II* listed Victorian building located in the centre of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Originally designed with a seating capacity of 3,500, the Hall seats 1500 people....
in Bradford
Bradford
Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
.
The band announced a UK tour to support the new album. It ran from 24 September 2009 to 15 October 2009 and takes in 14 venues. Afterwards, they had dates in Japan, New York, Los Angeles, and Europe (supporting Franz Ferdinand in the latter) before another four UK gigs in December, which saw them headline their first arena when they played Doncaster Dome. January 2010 saw a full tour of the U.S. and Canada. In February 2010, they toured Australia and New Zealand - playing in Wellington on 26 February and Auckland on the 27th. In June 2011, the band played its first shows in Brazil.
The Cribs have announced they will be playing at Get Loaded In The Park
Get Loaded In The Park
Get Loaded in the Park is an inner-city music festival held on Clapham Common in London annually since 2004. It was held on the August Bank Holiday Sunday until 2010 when the festival took a years sabbatical, before returning in 2011 with a new date of Sunday 12th June.In its original format it was...
2011 on Clapham Common, London on Sunday 12 June.
They will also be playing at Latitude Festival 2011 in Suffolk, England on Saturday 16 July at the Obelisk Arena.
The played, on the 20the of July in Paris at the Zenith
Zenith
The zenith is an imaginary point directly "above" a particular location, on the imaginary celestial sphere. "Above" means in the vertical direction opposite to the apparent gravitational force at that location. The opposite direction, i.e...
, before the Strokes
The Strokes
The Strokes are an American indie rock band formed in 1999 in New York City. Consisting of Julian Casablancas , Nick Valensi , Albert Hammond, Jr. , Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti ....
.
Collaborations
In 2007 Lee RanaldoLee Ranaldo
Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...
from Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
collaborated with the band on their third album. The track "Be Safe" is a Ranaldo spoken word
Spoken word
Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events....
piece performed by the artist, and backed with The Cribs' music. They have a history of collaborations with artists such as Edwyn Collins
Edwyn Collins
Edwyn Stephen Collins is an Ivor Novello Award winning Scottish musician, playing mostly electric guitar-driven pop. Collins formed the musical group Nu-Sonics in 1976, which later became Orange Juice...
(Orange Juice
Orange Juice
Orange Juice was a Scottish post-punk band founded in the middle class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden as the Nu-Sonics in 1976. Edwyn Collins formed the Nu-Sonics with his school-mate Alan Duncan and was subsequently joined by James Kirk and Steven Daly, who left a band called The Machetes. The band...
), Jon Slade (Huggy Bear, Comet Gain
Comet Gain
Comet Gain are a British indie pop band, formed by singer-songwriter and guitarist David Bower in 1992, with influences including punk, post-punk and northern soul...
), Bobby Conn
Bobby Conn
Bobby Conn is an American musician based in Chicago, Illinois, known for his pop-rock. He often collaborates with other artists such as musicians Colby Starck and Jim O'Rourke, and film-maker Usama Alshaibi. In 2003, Conn produced a session for UK punk band The Cribs, whom he met when they were a...
(Bobby Conn and The Glass Gypsies), Bernard Butler
Bernard Butler
Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician and record producer. He first emerged in the early Britpop era with Suede. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation, as well as one of Britain's most original and influential guitarists...
(Suede
Suede (band)
Suede are an English alternative rock band from London, formed in 1989. The group's most prominent early line-up featured singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Bernard Butler, bass player Mat Osman and drummer Simon Gilbert. By 1992, Suede were hailed as "The Best New Band in Britain", and attracted...
, McAlmont and Butler
McAlmont and Butler
McAlmont and Butler are an English rock/soul music duo, comprising singer David McAlmont and guitarist Bernard Butler.- History :The duo formed in 1994. Both Butler and McAlmont had already experienced success in the music industry. Butler was the guitarist in the indie band Suede, until his...
), Joe Plummer
Joe Plummer
Joe Plummer is an American drummer from Portland, Oregon. Since 2004, Plummer has been a member of the indie rock band Modest Mouse and performed on their album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank...
(Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. They are based in Portland, Oregon. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think...
), the aforementioned Lee Ranaldo
Lee Ranaldo
Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...
(Sonic Youth) and Alex Kapranos
Alex Kapranos
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley , commonly known as Alex Kapranos, is a United Kingdom-based musician who is the lead singer and the guitarist of the Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand.-Early life:...
(Franz Ferdinand).
Studio Albums
| Year | Album Details | Peak Chart Positions | Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds) |
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| UK UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
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| 2004 | The Cribs The Cribs (album) The Cribs was the title of The Cribs' debut album released in 2004. It was recorded in 7 days in mid/late 2003 at London's Toe-Rag Studios, a vintage styled 8 track studio in the Hackney area...
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| 2005 | The New Fellas The New Fellas The New Fellas was the title of The Cribs' second album released in 2005. It placed at #11 in the NME's 'Albums Of The Year' in 2005. The song "Hey Scenesters!" was placed 42nd in a poll for the top 50 Indie anthems of all time, which was published in the influential music magazine NME in May 2007,... Wichita Recordings Wichita Recordings is an independent record label located in London, founded in 2000 by Mark Bowen and Dick Green. Its most notable signees are Bloc Party, The Cribs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Her Space Holiday, Los Campesinos! and Peter Bjorn and John... Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , Vinyl, Digital Download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
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British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... : Silver |
| 2007 | Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever is The Cribs' third album, released on 21 May 2007. It reached 13 on the UK Album Charts. Critically acclaimed, it was voted #9 in the annual 'Albums Of The Year' in influential UK music magazine NME, amongst various other end-of-year lists... Wichita Recordings Wichita Recordings is an independent record label located in London, founded in 2000 by Mark Bowen and Dick Green. Its most notable signees are Bloc Party, The Cribs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Her Space Holiday, Los Campesinos! and Peter Bjorn and John... , Warner Bros. Records Warner Bros. Records Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies... Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , Vinyl, Digital Download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
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British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... : Silver |
| 2009 | Ignore The Ignorant Ignore the Ignorant Ignore the Ignorant is the fourth studio album by the British band The Cribs. The album was released in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2009 via Wichita Recordings, following the release of the first single "Cheat on Me" on 31 August... Wichita Recordings Wichita Recordings is an independent record label located in London, founded in 2000 by Mark Bowen and Dick Green. Its most notable signees are Bloc Party, The Cribs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Her Space Holiday, Los Campesinos! and Peter Bjorn and John... , Warner Bros. Records Warner Bros. Records Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies... Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , Vinyl, Digital Download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
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British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... : Silver |
Singles
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| UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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| 2004 | "Baby Don't Sweat" | – | The Cribs |
| "You Were Always The One" | 66 | ||
| "What About Me" | 75 | ||
| 2005 | "Hey Scenesters! Hey Scenesters! "Hey Scenesters!" was the first single from English post-punk revival band The Cribs second album The New Fellas. The single charted at number 27 in April 2005, becoming their first Top 40 single... " |
27 | The New Fellas |
| "Mirror Kissers" | 27 | ||
| "Martell" | 39 | ||
| "You're Gonna Lose Us You're Gonna Lose Us "You're Gonna Lose Us" is a non-album single from The Cribs, and was released on 05 December 2005, charting at #30 on the UK Singles Chart.The track originally appeared as a b-side to "Hey Scenesters!" earlier in the year, before being reworked by Bernard Butler for its own stand-alone... " |
30 | Non-Album Track | |
| 2007 | "Men's Needs Men's Needs "Men's Needs" is the first single from British indie rock band The Cribs' third album Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever, which was released on 14 May 2007. It was available to listen to on the band's MySpace page. It was recorded in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2006 and was produced by Franz... " |
17 | Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever |
| "Moving Pictures Moving Pictures (song) "Moving Pictures" is the second single from The Cribs's third album Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever, and was released on 30 July 2007, charting at #38 on the UK Singles Chart.... " |
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| "Our Bovine Public / Don't You Wanna Be Relevant?" | 39 | ||
| 2008 | "I'm A Realist" (Chart ineligible vinyl-only release) | – | |
| 2009 | "Cheat On Me" | 80 | Ignore The Ignorant |
| "We Share The Same Skies" (Chart ineligible vinyl-only release) | – | ||
| 2010 | "Housewife" (Unannounced surprise single. Vinyl and download only) | Non-Album Track |