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Forbes
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Q&A: The Kooks Luke Pritchard On New Music, Fatherhood And More
MATLOCK, ENGLAND - AUGUST 02: Luke Pritchard of The Kooks performs on Day Two of Y Not Festival 2024 ... More Pikehall on August 02, 2024 in Matlock, England. (Photo by) U.K. indie rock favorites The Kooks are a classic example of the phrase, 'If you know, you know.' They have a dedicated U.S. following, their shows are always a great time made of loyal, hardcore fans who've been with the band, oftentimes, a decade or more. Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard does not take that for granted at all. 'The idea that people care that we're making a seventh album is so cool,' he says. They just released Never/Know, the seventh record, this month and began a North American tour this week. I spoke with Pritchard about the album, losing his father when he was a child and more. Steve Baltin: It's been a long minute since you toured the U.S. Luke Pritchard: We did a couple of years ago, but I don't think anyone knew we were there. It was sort of under the radar in some ways, but it broke everything up a bit. We're coming back in May and excited to get back into it, man. Baltin: Let's talk for a second about family life. How old are the kids? Pritchard: Yeah, it's definitely changed things up. One and three. So, we jumped straight in it's in the trenches as they say, but yeah, it's wonderful. They're just these perfect beings that brought magic into our lives. It has changed like the whole process and everything. It's kind of funny; I thought it would be different. I knew it'd be hard and easy and all those things but nothing quite prepares you for it. Baltin: Serj Tankian, who's a friend, put it best, he said, "Whatever you thought you ever knew about being in love, just forget it. What you feel for your kids is totally different." Pritchard: Yeah, exactly. It's indescribable and it also, in some ways, I think it's exactly what I needed in my life at that right time. There's a release as well because all of a sudden you get the purpose, which sounds all cheesy and everything, but you've got this purpose. But also you don't have time to overthink and at the same time I was getting into meditation and coming into a wholesome time in my life anyway and it just frees up that energy in your brain where all of a sudden, you're not even number one or number two, you're like fourth down on the list in a way. I think that's cool, man, it touches something spiritual. Baltin: A lot of people have talked about the fact that when you have a kid, too, all that music s**t doesn't matter anymore in a weird way because who cares what someone thinks about your song, as long as your kids are healthy and cool. Pritchard: Yeah, exactly. It levels everything out in that way, doesn't it? And the things that used to get under the skin don't touch the side anymore. But I think even deeper than that, it's just on a musical level as well. I found the joy of it definitely opened me up. And I think you're right. I think the new album, particularly for me, is a real expression of being very fed up of always being told that everything's doom and gloom and this sort of swirl of negativity every day. I feel very lucky and grateful to have this young family and I can't afford to be like that. I've got to feel the joy, I've got to be positive and optimistic for them. And I think that that really helped with the music creation in every aspect. There are so many challenges, but when you're able to put food on the table, to be healthy when that's the main goal, that's a beautiful thing. Baltin: Tell me about the writing of the new album. Pritchard: I'll start at the beginning with the new album. We've done a lot of different albums where we went different, especially sonically, I was on stage, and I was playing our old song ''Ula' and I just had this epiphany moment on stage. I was just seeing everyone still connecting to this tune. I was just thinking about what I was hitting on and I thought it's been a long time since I really wrote a bunch of songs on my own like I used to do, especially on the first day. I would be in my family home bedroom and I used to write the song and then if I remembered it in the morning I would be like, 'That's a good song.' I work with a lot of producers and that is then the modern way it's very collaborative. I said to my wife, look, I'm going to be around, we're going to be hanging out with kids. But I just need five days where I can go into my studio room and just really start some new music. And it just flowed, I all of a sudden found my identity again a bit. A lot of people told me it reminds them of the same energy of the first album, and I think that's maybe why. I sprouted all these songs, I wrote pretty much the whole album, in terms, of the lyrics and melody all in this very short period of time. Baltin: Did you find fatherhood come into the writing of this album? Pritchard: 'If They Could Only Know,' for example, is a sweet story in the song. It's a simple, cool concept I think a lot of people relate to, which is just about how in my life I've had a lot of turbulence, and I have been quite unhappy and really happy and a bit crazy and torn and maybe having quite a chaotic life and then figuring it out and finding wholesome and having a family but wishing the people that didn't ever see me get to that point, could see it. So, I put some comedy in, I was trying to channel a bit of Ray Davies and British humor, and I put missing my granny's cooking and mentioned my dad, who, passed away when I was a kid. I had this amazing moment with my first born, cause Wesley, our second kid, he hadn't been born at this point when I was writing the song. My dad died when I was three. And I always thought, he never knew me, he never knew anything about me. And my one connection with him was music. I think that's the only reason why I ever did this and why I had such belief in myself was I had to do this because of my dad. All I had left was a Les Paul deluxe and a bunch of records and I this was my connection, my only real sort of ambition was because of my dad. Anyway, once I had Julian, I when he got to three I realized, 'Oh my god my dad knew so well.' I was like, 'If I died today the connection I have with my son are the memories. That's like a universe.' It was a very powerful feeling and I think that feeling runs through quite a few of the songs; 'Never Know,' it's that and I named the album after that song because it's all about that gratitude for what you've had and what you have. For me that the most traumatic thing in my life was my dad dying when I was a kid. And I think that there's finding the joy of the time I have with him. Baltin: When you look back now at songs you wrote 15, 20 years ago do you find your dad in there in ways that you didn't recognize at the time? Because so much of writing is subconscious. So, now that you realize now your relationship with him, my gut is that probably was always in there. You just were not able to see it yet. Pritchard: Yeah, I think that's really insightful and giving me goosebumps in a way because I think you're right. I think psychologically when starting a family a lot of that stuff got brought up and I think, especially in my first couple of records, there's a lot of angst, even if it's like you're talking about a girl, and then all of a sudden this angst comes out. It's like the primal scream kind of thing. And I think that's quite clear to me now. There are specific songs like "See Me Now," for example, which is on our fourth record, which is literally a letter to my dad.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘SIX the Musical' hits the stage Wednesday night
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — SIX the Musical is on its North American Tour, and the cast is stopping in Sioux Falls this week. Gaby Albo is playing Anne Boleyn in the retold story of Henry VIII and his wives. 'I think it's a masterpiece of how it was so smartly written to merge this very real, old story. And bring it to a very modern, contemporary, concert-like, female empowering show and celebrating our own uniqueness. I think it's all very fresh and very smartly put together,' said Gaby Albo, who plays Anne Boleyn in SIX. Jamie Smith to make announcement Saturday As for her character, Albo says everyone has a different twist on how she's played. 'I think I have a very, like, unique, unique take on Anne Boleyn. They always let us choose our queenspirations, how we call them in rehearsals. And my queenspiration would be if Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande had a daughter. I think that would be my Boleyn. It doesn't have to be the same queenspiration as one of my understudies, for example,' said Albo. Although the Washington Pavilion has hosted Broadway shows before, SIX is one of the newest shows to hit their stage. 'So, SIX is really a pretty brand new musical. And really, it's still in New York on Broadway. And so it was one we were really excited to get to this market, because it's so, pretty new out in the traveling world. And so, yeah, we're excited to have it here. And it's why it's here for kind of a longer run than some of the other typical Broadway shows you'll see,' said Kerri DeGraff, COO of the Washington Pavilion. And if you're still not sold on buying tickets, take it from the director of sales, who just saw SIX on Broadway- and plans to see it twice this weekend. 'This musical is a reality TV style competition between the six queens to decide who had it the worst, like whose life was truly the hardest. And so we get to hear their stories from their perspective in song. So it's rock, it's pop, it's musical theater, and it's just a spectacle. It is incredible. One of my favorite musicals that I've ever seen,' said Tim Sax, director of sales at the Washington Pavilion, who saw the musical recently. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
See what '70s hunk Shaun Cassidy, 66, of Hardy Boys fame looks like now as he announces tour
Seventies heartthrob Shaun Cassidy is launching his first-ever 50-city North American tour. It kicks off at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, September 13, 2025. Shaun, 66, is a singer, actor, writer and producer who rose to fame as a teen idol in the late 1970s. He's also known for creating and producing TV shows like American Gothic, Roar, and Invasion. And he was the star of the popular The Hardy Boys with Parker Stevenson. Cassidy comes from a show business family: his parents, Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones, were both actors, and his half-brother was singer and actor David Cassidy of The Partridge Family fame. The Road To Us is an electric evening of live music and storytelling, accompanied by a full band and delivered by the charismatic Cassidy, who—while out of the spotlight for a number of years writing and producing television—has never stopped loving live performance. His recent show, The Magic of a Midnight Sky, played to standing-room-only crowds and critical acclaim. 'The Road To Us is first about fun, then about connection—a connection I feel is more important now than ever,' he told 'Be it in a concert hall or at the kitchen table, bringing people together—to laugh, cry, or blast out some hit songs—is like rocket fuel for the soul. I can't think of a better reason to take the ultimate road trip!' Born into a show business family, Shaun's mother is Oscar-winning actress Shirley Jones and his father was Tony-winning actor Jack Cassidy. While still in high school, Shaun signed a contract with Warner Bros. Records and rose to stardom with three multi-platinum albums and numerous Top Ten hits, including the No. 1 'Da Doo Ron Ron.' He received a GRAMMY nomination for his efforts and performed at every major arena in the country, including Houston's Astrodome and New York's Madison Square Garden. Almost concurrently, he starred in the ABC television series The Hardy Boys Mysteries. Later, while appearing for over a year on Broadway in the hit musical Blood Brothers (with his half-brother David), Shaun wrote his first television pilot, American Gothic, a darkly absorbing drama that established Cassidy as a writer to be reckoned with. She won her Oscar for Elmer Gantry, portraying a minister's daughter who turns to prostitution after being seduced and deserted by a con man played by Burt Lancaster Shaun would go on to create, write, and/or produce a number of acclaimed series including Roar (starring Heath Ledger), Cold Case, Cover Me, The Agency, Invasion, and Emerald City. Most recently, he spent five years as executive producer/writer for the hit NBC/Netflix series New Amsterdam. Shaun not only survived the madness of his early teen idol days—he thrived—making his home in the wine country of Santa Barbara with his wife Tracey, their four children, and more animals than he can count. In collaboration with the non-profit No Kid Hungry, their family produces a collection of fine wines, My First Crush, which donates proceeds to help feed hungry children nationwide. SHAUN CASSIDY TOUR DATES 9/13 – Nashville, TN / Grand Ole Opry 9/17 – Waterville, ME / Waterville Opera House 9/19 – Beverly, MA / Cabot Theater 9/25 – Glenside, PA / The Keswick 9/26 – Seneca, NY / Niagara Falls – The Bear's Den 9/27 – Seneca, NY / Niagara Falls – The Bear's Den 9/28 – Verona, NY / Turning Stone Resort Casino 10/16 – Hopewell, VA / The Beacon 10/17 – Alexandria, VA / The Birchmere 10/18 – Annapolis, MD / Ram's Head 10/19 – Rocky Mount, VA / The Harvester 10/23 – Peekskill, NY / Paramount Hudson Valley Arts 10/24 – Newton, NJ / The Newton Theater 10/25 – Norfolk, CT / Infinity Hall 10/26 – Bethlehem, PA / ArtsQuest 11/5 – Milwaukee, WI / The Pabst Theater 11/7 – Des Plaines, IL / Des Plaines Theatre 11/8 – St. Charles, IL / The Arcada 11/9 – Burnsville, MN / Ames Center 11/11 – Shipshewana, IN / The Blue Gate 11/13 – Nashville, IN / Brown County Music Center 11/14 – Cincinnati, OH / Ludlow's 11/15 – Columbus, OH / The Southern 11/16 – Akron, OH / The Goodyear Theater 12/4 – Detroit, MI / The Fisher Theater 12/5 – Warren, OH / Robins Theatre 12/6 – Munhall, PA / Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall 12/11 – Orlando, FL / The Plaza Live 12/12 – Clearwater, FL / Capitol Theatre 12/13 – Ponte Vedra, FL / Ponte Vedra Concert Hall 1/8 – Austin, TX / Paramount Theater 1/9 – Dallas, TX / The Granada Theater 1/10 – Houston, TX / House of Blues 1/16 – Napa, CA / Uptown Theater 1/17 – Riverside, CA / The Fox 1/18 – El Cajon, CA / Magnolia More dates to be announced…
Indianapolis Star
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
Last-minute concert tickets in New York City: See Charli XCX, Saint Motel, Kim Gordon
AI-assisted summary Last-minute concert tickets are available in NYC this weekend for various genres. Concerts include Charli XCX at Barclays Center, Saint Motel and Arcade Fire at Brooklyn Paramount, and Kim Gordon at Pioneer Works. Ticket prices vary depending on the artist and venue. Some of my most memorable concerts have been last-minute purchases. I once bought tickets to see Ed Sheeran at Forest Hills Stadium while on the train to Queens, about 20 minutes before he hit the stage. It was one of the best shows and super affordable on StubHub. For everyone who waits until the eleventh hour to make plans, there's hope for you. If you are looking for something fun to do in New York City this weekend, there are still some last-minute concert tickets available on StubHub, including the high-demand Charli XCX shows in Brooklyn! Get last-minute concert tickets in New York City this weekend New York City is always buzzing and this weekend is no different. Whether you're a fan of pop, indie, rock or cabaret, there's a show for you. Below, you can get last-minute tickets to see Charli XCX's electrifying performance at Barclays Center, Saint Motel's dynamic set at Brooklyn Paramount, Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth at Pioneer Works and Countess Cabaret with Bravo's Luann de Lesseps at Town Hall. Charli XCX at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York Saint Motel at the LIU Brooklyn Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn, New York Dates: Saturday, May 3 at 7:00pm Prices: Tickets start at approximately $35 for General Admission, with Balcony Seats listed for about $285. Arcade Fire at the LIU Brooklyn Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn, New York Kim Gordon at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York Countess Cabaret at Town Hall in New York City How to buy Lady Gaga Mayhem Ball Tour 2025 concert tickets Sabrina Carpenter adds 17 dates to end of Short n' Sweet Tour. How to buy tickets How to buy Mumford & Sons 2025 North American Tour tickets Beyoncé tickets are on sale now. How to buy 2025 Cowboy Carter Tour tickets How to buy The Weeknd concert tickets, 2025 full Tour schedule How to buy 2025 Blackpink World Tour concert tickets Backstreet's back, alright! Shop Backstreet Boys at The Sphere tickets Kelly Clarkson in Vegas: How to score tickets to her Caesars Palace residency
