The Cribs live in concert.
ON TOUR

The Cribs

150
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

78
%
Based on 
150
critic concert
reviews
LAST 12 MONTHS RATING  
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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.

ON TOUR

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Latest release

Rising (September 17, 2023)

artist info

GENRE
rock
ORIGIN
Wakefield, United Kingdom (2001 - present)
BIO
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.

Backseat Mafia

March 18, 2022
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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.

The Upcoming (UK)

March 14, 2022
80
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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

NME (UK)

March 14, 2022
80
%
March 11, Roundhouse: Wakefield's long-serving band of brothers remain a formidable and explosive live act

Louder Than War (UK)

March 8, 2022
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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.

God Is In The TV Zine (UK)

March 7, 2022
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The Cribs / The Blinders – Sheffield O2 Academy, 04/02/2022

Birmingham Live (UK)

February 27, 2022
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The Cribs + The Blinders @ The Institute – 1st March 2022

Past critic reviews published in

Hidden Herd (UK), GIGsoup (UK), Buzz Magazine (UK), Brighton's Finest (UK), Slate the Disco (UK) and more

IMAGE CREDIT

Christopher Johnson [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons