The Cribs are back

A new album, an old line-up, Portland and Wakefield - the Cribs explain all to Soccer Am.

The Cribs made their fifth appearance on Soccer Am this Saturday - missing out on their double hat-trick ball. The band, from Wakefield, are back with their new album and joined Helen and Matt on the Soccer Am sofas. Among other things, Ryan explained their new album title 'In the belly of the brazen bull', which includes comeback single 'Come on, be a no-one' and compared Portland and Wakefield. They also announced that concealed in three of the albums would be golden tickets that would guarantee access to every Cribs gig staged. "The internet has devalued records, which I obviously find as a real bummer, but the live show is something that can't be replicated," Ryan told Soccer Am. "We see ourselves predominantly as a live band. "There are only three of them out there so they are going to be the ultimate rarity for collectors." Since they were last on former Smith's guitarist Johnny Marr, who joined the band up in 2008, has left the band and they have returned to their original line-up of the three Jarman brothers. "When we did the record with Johnny we had done four albums back to back - we have been in a band for ten years now - and we had never had any kind of a break. "We finished at Reading Festival on the main stage and we thought this is a good place to leave it for a little while and then Johnny started writing some solo songs and said he might do a solo record and we were supportive of that. But we also were writing a load of stuff ourselves. "We just found ourselves going off down different paths. You have got to go where the music takes you."