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The Kooks and Hard-Fi on the last great wave of British guitar bands

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The Kooks and The 'Fi were at the epicentre of the last great indie boom in the 2000s .

By 2006 , seven of the UK 's 10 best-selling new albums were by guitar bands.

Today , the band are bigger than ever after hits like Naïve and Ooh La found a new audience.

The Kooks' debut album sold 1.5 million copies in 2006 making it the fifth biggest record of the year .

Now the best-selling album in the UK ( Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department ) only sold 600,000 copies.

Streams have cannibalised sales turning every artist into a cult act.

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