Our FINAL idea...

The inspiration from the Maccabees music video 'Tooth Paste Kisses' inspired us by its poetic and fairytale like mood and theme. The Crookes are a very successful band and their main influeneces is due to their early studies of English Language and Literature. In their interview they continually quote that the lyrics and theme of their songs flow from the knowledge and passion that they have as English students.

What inspires you?
Musically.. the above, and i guess as all English Literature students we're pretty inspired by different types of literature.

What are the main themes or topics that arise in your music?
Daniel uses a lot of literary references in the lyrics, the songs are often about fictional people who become the basis for a story. The songs are normally stories opposed to self-indulagent love songs.

'Chrous of Fools' is one of the Crookes favourite songs this is due to the poet lyrics and beat which it consists of. This therefore has a massive influence of the band as a whole; lyrics, beat and look. The Crookes are also very family orientated and down to earth.

What’s the origin of your band name?
Well it was mine (Alex) and Daniel's idea really, we lived in Crookes in our first year of university and opposite the road from our accomidation was a sign for 'Crookes' so we went from there really.

Here you can see importance of their home ties and how much it has influenced the band- leading to the bands name. This is a big reason why we have chosen to include family photographs and images of the band and their home roots in our music video. We think that the band would love this idea as it gives background knowledge of the band to the audience.
'Toothpaste Kisses' is a unique video with very different ideas to a traditional music video, so we thought this sort of thing would be appropriate for the Crookes. The style and animation of our music video will evoke the poetic and lyrical vibe that the band has. The animations will enable us to play around with the images and create a music video which will give The Crookes justice. We will collect images and photographs from the 1950s and photographs of The Band members and their family. We want to keep the theme of the 1950s and we will add to this by having the video in the Sepia and Blakc&White Tones effect, but making sure we are keeping the true colour of the 1950s photographs which we have collected, to keep their authenticity. The vast majority of the photos are from my own family history. The pictures are mainly of my great grandparents and grandparents. This helps to put the emotion and passion in to the video as the pictures mean so much to me personally. I think it also helps to create the family feel that we seek to fit in with the band's home ties. In certain parts of the music video to again enhance the poetic and lyrical theme we will but emphasis on certain lyrics to make them speak out to the audience.