The Crookes - Bloodshot Days

They may be called The Crookes, but this hotly tipped Sheffield band recently fell foul of some crooks minus the ‘e’ when burglars nicked laptops containing their entire song catalogue.

Happily, the brilliantly chiming, flamenco-flavoured Bloodshot Days survived the crime, and is set for a single release in April. Sounding like an indie band staying pale on their summer holidays, it’s a testament to the songwriting skill of the band, who’ve already won a huge fan in BBC 6’s Steve Lamacq.

If people say they’re reminiscent of The Smiths, the band’s description of the single is truly worthy of one Stephen Morrissey. “Heartache and apathy. When your days all bleed into one. They're pretty much the two themes that run through the song,” they say.

On the B-side is new track ‘Through the Cat's Whisker’, named for the old radios known as cat’s whiskers. “We had the idea of an old, forlorn man listening to his radio one day and then suddenly hearing an old forgotten song come through that floods him with memories of his youth,” say the band. “The style of the song almost facetiously mirrors the kind of song we imagined to come through the radio.”

Bent on putting romantic, stirring drama back in indie music, The Crookes are set to have a busy and fruitful year, not least because they’ll be making their SXSW debut in March. Look out, Texas, is all we can say. “I heard a rumour American girls like a British accent,” says Daniel. “Something I'm keen to exploit!”
        
The single follows the band’s ‘12 Days Of Crookemas’, in a which a plethora of free goodies were made available to fans in the run-up to Christmas.  With Crookesmas out of the way, we asked the band for their New Year’s Resolutions.

“To lock the door so we don't get burgled again,” they say, sensibly enough. “And to get fit so we don't collapse on our massive tour.”

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