Oh I know. from what I recall thereās also Jane McDonald and a bunch of rugby players
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I tend not to come in these threads as theyāre on like 200 posts by the time I see them and I donāt like jumping in a thread if I donāt have the time to read whatās come before (Iām sure my damehoodās in the post) but The Cribs are a special case (plus I got in the thread early cos Iāve avoiding work).
Anyway I definitely wrote them off as landfill indie but with some decent tunes you can shout along to at an indie disco, but my husband was a mega fan when I first met him as heās from the area and grew up going to their first few albumsā worth of gigs before they got big with MNWNW. I was surprised when he said they were more punk than indie and probably laughed at the thought of it as Iād put them in the same basket as The Wombats etc (sorry Jarmans) but he got me to see them live with him and it totally clicked. Iāve probably seen them the most out of any band which is weird to think about as while Iām a fan I wouldnāt say Iām a Cribs ultra but itās always such a great time. Obviously theyāre also a GBOL too.
Itās difficult to recommend a ābestā album for anyone whoās Cribs-curious as they kind of jump from influence to influence, like the self-titled debut and Night Network are essentially them paying homage to a lot of 60s girl group music, but For All My Sisters is full of fun pop bangers (and some tosh tbh but the good stuff is really good) and In The Belly of the Brazen Bull was my favourite sad-lads album for a good while.
Big old 5
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Their best tunes are up there with the best of any other band from the same era
I KNOW A PLACE WE CAN GO
WHERE YOUāLL FALL IN
LOVE SO HARD THAT
YOU WISH YOU WERE DEAD
also, random tune of theirs I like not mentioned so far is Leather Jacket Love Song
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Thereās one for Bill Nelson of Be-bop Deluxe too.
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Theyāre actually from Netherton, which is kind of a satellite village of Wakefield. It used to be called Nether Shitlington.
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Itās like when people tried to claim Embrace were from Brighouse - theyāre very territorial in West Yorkshire when it comes to landfill indie.
Think really Wakefieldās metropolitan borough is way bigger than it has any right to be. No way if youāre from somewhere like Pontefract are you saying youāre from Wakefield. Too big for its boots imo.
Dont call them The Five Towns for nothing
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The Cribs should do a Beastie Boys āTo The 5 Townsā type album, a love letter to Xscape, power stations and rugby league.
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Biggest city without a professional football team or some shit
Quite enjoying how many people just assumed they were shit then liked them when they listened.
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This is true, makes me proud
The Wakefield Express for some reason often puts up pictures from nights out from 10-15 years ago and you can often seen one of the Jarmans in a picture at the indie club
Ross is in the thumbnail here
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Know people irl from 9,13,18,19 
I think I recognise Chris but no idea where from or how
He was one of the louder than bombs lot who booked all the bands that played there.
Went to a beer fest with him last year.
Ah that will probably be why! Iām in one of these galleries, in Zone
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Blame the Pigeon Detectives I guess
Iāve disappointingly been in none of them.
Used to go to Escobar at least once a week and went to nearly every gig there.
Great little scene
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