Recorded debut album Inside In/Inside Out

Following their first tour supporting the Thrills , the Kooks recorded their debut album, Inside In/Inside Out , at Konk studios in London in 2005. Though media attention was dominated by the release of the Arctic Monkeys debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not on the same day, Inside In/Inside Out recorded first week sales of 19,098. Later, speaking to NME , Pritchard thanked the Arctic Monkeys for “shielding” The Kooks from the press’ scrutiny. “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 Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not because it was so monster and we crept in behind everybody’s back.” Entering the UK Albums Chart at number nine, it would eventually peak at number 2 for two weeks. Singles “Eddie’s Gun”, “Sofa Song”, “You Don’t Love Me”, ” Naïve “, ” She Moves in Her Own Way ” and ” Ooh La ” achieved chart success in the UK and Europe, while “Naïve” and “She Moves in Her Own Way” put The Kooks in the top ten for the first time.