• More The Cribs news, reviews, videos and tour dates
• Buy The Cribs music from Amazon
• • The Cribs news RSS Feed

Photo Gallery: The Cribs
Photo: Andy Willsher

The Cribs have lashed out against the current crop of UK guitar bands – claiming they are too careerist to be truly indie.

The Wakefield/Manchester band said that despite there being a huge amount of anticipation for their forthcoming new album, 'Ignore The Ignorant' (set for release on September 15), their first featuring ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, they still saw themselves as outsiders.

"People aren't doing it [indie music] well," frontman Ryan Jarman said. "The people who are in it for the wrong reasons have fallen by the wayside."

Guitarist Johnny Marr added that he believed that his band's politically-charged new album title, partly influenced by the worrying rise of the British National Party in UK politics, was a symptom of how The Cribs refused to compromise their values in an attempt to grab sales.

"Whether you want to call it politics with a small 'p', or in capitals," he outlined, "the band have made no apologies about being political in the past. That makes us a different prospect to a bunch of bands in white plastic suits.

"Everyone knows that The Cribs are a group of individuals rather than coming off some cold ironic faceless band conveyor belt."

For the full interview with The Cribs, see the new issue of NME, out now.

Visit NME Video for the latest music videos and artist interviews

• Previous: Editors reveal sci-fi 'Blade Runner' influence for new album
• Next: Little Boots, The Big Pink, Golden Silvers and more join Underage Festival line-up

Date/Time	Venue	Town/City	Seetickets	Viagogo
Aug 25, 2012 11:00	Richfield Avenue	Reading	Buy The Cribs Tickets from £5	Buy The Cribs Tickets
Aug 26, 2012 11:00	Bramham Park	Leeds	Buy The Cribs Tickets from £92	Buy The Cribs Tickets