The Kooks took the stage promptly at 9:30, looking typically disheveled for the sold out Troubadour audience. Opening with “Always Where I Need To Be” to an exuberant crowd, the band breezed through many of the Beatles-esque crowd pleasers from from their first two albums. Highlights included “Do You Wanna” and “Shine” to which the crowd sang back at full force “Safety pins holding up the things that made you mine.” It was enough to make you feel like we were seeing The Kooks in London. New tracks sat alongside the classics well. If anything, the band was more energized playing the new stuff. In particular “The Saboteur” and new album title track “Junk Of The Heart” were standouts.