X-Nico

3 unusual facts about The Crookes


Ferdinand Kingsley

In Spring 2013, Kingsley starred in the short film Dance in Colour by The Crookes.

Sal Paradise

The English band The Crookes wrote a song called Sal Paradise, which appears in their second album "Hold Fast" (2012).

The Crookes

The band formed in 2008, naming themselves after the suburb Crookes in Sheffield, where the guitarists Alex Saunders and Daniel Hopewell met before later recruiting George Waite on vocals and Russell Bates on drums.


Chasing After Ghosts

Chasing After Ghosts was the first full length studio album released by Sheffield based indie pop group The Crookes.


see also

Long Causeway

From Portobello the route continued by a series of rises and dips, climbing initially through Leavygreave and crossing the top of the Crookes valley and up Lydgate Lane (then called Hallam Gate) to reach which was then open moorland.