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The Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard has thanked the Arctic Monkeys for shielding them from public attention.
Despite a relatively slow start to 2006, The Kooks saw huge success with hit singles such as 'Naive' and 'She Moves In Her Own Way', and remained at the top of the album chart for much of the year.
Pritchard believes that the hype surrounding the Arctic Monkeys allowed his band to grow steadily, out of the public eye.
He told NME, "God bless the Arctic Monkeys, because if it wasn't for them we wouldn't have been so shielded. We were so overshadowed by the success (of Whatever People Think I Am, That's What I'm Not) that we crept in behind everybody's back.
"Arctic Monkeys shielded us from getting too much attention."
Despite a relatively slow start to 2006, The Kooks saw huge success with hit singles such as 'Naive' and 'She Moves In Her Own Way', and remained at the top of the album chart for much of the year.
Pritchard believes that the hype surrounding the Arctic Monkeys allowed his band to grow steadily, out of the public eye.
He told NME, "God bless the Arctic Monkeys, because if it wasn't for them we wouldn't have been so shielded. We were so overshadowed by the success (of Whatever People Think I Am, That's What I'm Not) that we crept in behind everybody's back.
"Arctic Monkeys shielded us from getting too much attention."
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