On Friday (can 8.22,) during their set at Reading Festival, Rebel Wilson joined The Kooks on stage for a cover version of Coolio’s ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ hit.
Preempting the actresses’ appearance, the band’s frontman, Luke Pritchard said “We’d like to film a scene of a movie with you… so we’d like to welcome to the stage the incredible, the unbelievable, the hugely successful, famous, beautiful pop star, Tazzie Young… otherwise known as Rebel Wilson!”
Taking to the microphone, the 45-year old Wilson said “What’s up Reading? Seeing as I’m out here, I thought I should sing a classic Kooks song… so I don’t know about you guys, but I was thinking about Gangsta’s Paradise.”
Explaining how The Kooks and Rebel joined forces, Pritchard added “We’re huge fans of Rebel.” “She got in touch saying she wanted to come and watch us. Immediately I invited her to join us on stage.” “We asked her which song she wanted to sing, expecting her to pick one of ours. She said the only song she knows all the words to is Gangsta’s Paradise… so Gangsta’s Paradise it was!”
Formed in Brighton, England in 2004, The Kooks dropped their seventh LP Never/Know earlier this year, and in a recent interview Luke explained how he wrote the record in extremely quick time.
“I wrote it at home with my kids running around. Having come from heaven, through hell and back with Hugh (Harris) and the band, we’ve been through such a journey.” “It’s got quite shoegaze in the indie scene, which I love, but it’s quite gloomy. We are just consumed by being told all the time that everything’s so bad.” “And this one, it just flew out of me. I don’t know if that will happen again, but it was wild. It was like five days, and I had 10 songs.” “Music is really important, and I feel like people will gravitate more towards the arts and things when things are tricky, because it gives you hope.”
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Author: Al Denté
Photo: Eva Rinaldi