"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 3/11/24)
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Critic Consensus
Based on 150 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that The Cribs is rated as an enjoyable live performer, with some notable strengths. The Cribs concert reviews describe live shows and performances as crowd-pleasing, pleasing, exciting, raucous, inspiring, career-spanning, and chaotic.
The Cribs are an English 3-piece indie band from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England which formed in 2001 and consists of twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and their younger brother Ross. In August 2008 Johnny Marr, former guitarist for The Smiths and Modest Mouse, became the official fourth member of the band.
HAS PERFORMED with
The Automatic, Sures, Pulled Apart By Horses, Joe Lean and The Jing Jang Jong, Glass Towers, Adam Green
CRITIC concert REVIEWS
Louder Than War (UK)
August 5, 2022
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It’s Cribbbbbsssssmasssss! Well, it’s actually late July but Wakefield’s finest have decided to give the fans something of an early present.
In the newly refurbished (and bigger) Chalk Venue, first to the stager are Doncaster’s The Blinders, who whip the crowd up in a frenzy with full-on strobe lighting and they seem more polished this
time than last seen on a weekend outing at 2Q Festival in Lincoln.
It was busy around the Roundhouse on a rainy Friday night in London as the crowds with American Pale Ales and ciders in their hands waited for legendary cult indie-rock band The Cribs to mark their return – which they did with new hits from
Though it’s ignorant to assume the pandemic is completely over, tonight is the final night of a coincidental week of live music that has taken us from the Jacobean confines of Albert Hall, to the rough and ready basement bars of the Northern Quarter, to the vacuous room at Manchester Academy – twice.