The Cribs are currently performing their first live gig in two years


Ryan Jarman of The Cribs live at Leeds Arena celebrating Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever (Gaary Mather / Live4ever)

Ryan Jarman of The Cribs live at Leeds Arena celebrating Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever (Gary Mather / Live4ever)




The Cribs are currently undertaking their first live performance in close to two years, reuniting with their one-time collaborator Lee Ranaldo in the process.

The rendition of Be Safe is in isolation, it should go without saying, as the Jarman brothers emerge from hibernation after wrapping their campaign behind 2017’s 24-7 Rock Star Shit. “Ever the contrarians, recently The Cribs recorded a half-hour video interview with Gordon Burns, former host of the 20th century elevated quiz show The Krypton Factor,” our review reads.

“During it, the veteran is smart enough to let the three brothers do the talking; what emerges is the psyche laid almost bare of a band which are overground enough to play nostalgia concerts and sell out arenas, but still have a deep mistrust of many outside their circle.”

“To the Jarmans, this antipathy has a neat, linear origin based in ignorance, Gary explaining to camera that their critics feared they were ‘too real…people would tar us with the wrong brush…as an excuse to not have to deal with us’.”


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