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The Kooks tell Isle Of Wight VIPs to 'Fuck off'

Luke Pritchard tells the festival guests where to stick it

June 15, 2008 | 8 Comments
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The Kooks played an evening slot at the Isle Of Wight Festival earlier tonight (June 15), during which frontman Luke Pritchard taunted the VIP section of the crowd, telling them to "fuck off".

As well as dissing the special guests in a cordoned off area of the crowd, the band played hits including 'Ooh La', 'Naïve', 'Always Where I Need To Be' and 'She Moves In Her Own Way'.

"Hello VIP, how are you doing?" asked Pritchard shortly before leading his band through 'Sway'. The crowd began to boo, prompting the singer/guitarist to shout, "Yeah, fuck off!" to the guest section to the left of the stage. The crowd responded by cheering loudly.

Later on in the set Pritchard asked the crowd, "Do you want to see the sun? Let's try and bring it out together". The band then played 'See The Sun', during which the sun did indeed appear from behind the cloud, bathing the audience in sunshine in a bizarre coincidence.

The Kooks were joined by their guitar tech, "Adam" for their rendition of 'Shine On', then ended their set with a rapturously-received 'Sofa Song'. They then headed off to make way for The Police, who are up next on the main stage for their headline slot.

The Kooks played:

'Always Where I Need To Be'
'Matchbox'
'Eddie's Gun'
'Ooh La'
'Sway'
'Time Awaits'
'One Last Time'
'I Want You Back'
'She Moves In Her Own Way'
'Mr. Maker'
'See The Sun'
'Do You Wanna'
'Naïve'
'Shine On'
'Sofa Song'

Keep up with this weekend's (June 13-15) festival action as it happens on NME.COM. For news, pictures and blogs keep checking the NME.COM's Isle Of Wight Festival page and NME.COM's Download Festival page for live coverage from both sites.

nahnahnah

Jun 16, 2008

Perhaps this talentless scruffy ballbag and his band of no-hope turds should heed their own advice. Fuck RIGHT off.

mAttthhheaLy

Jun 16, 2008

Does Luke realise that he's ever so slowly becoming a complete charicature of himself? He's not exactly a working class hero himself, is he?And what's wrong with the VIP area? Is it not "rock 'n' roll" to watch your favourite bands playing in comfort?These attemps to desperately impress the crowd are completely in vain. They're still not going to buy your albums, they still won't listen to your music. No matter how many VIP areas you invite to "fuck off" it wont sell you more albums - because your albums are shit.Damn, I didn't want to become one of these hateful twats that slag singers they don't like off on nme.com in comments, but some people just deserve it.

nahnahnah

Jun 16, 2008

" I didn't want to become one of these hateful twats that slag singers they don't like off on nme.com in comments"Or write long diatribes? Oops, too late...