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Former Kooks bassist denies drugs split claims
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 31 October 2011
Former Kooks bassist Max Rafferty has denied claims by his former bandmates that he was sacked from the outfit because of an escalating addiction to cocaine. He says his departure happened after he suggested that the band weren’t very good and needed to buck up their ideas.
When he was removed from the band’s line-up in 2008, they said that he had been “taking drugs probably a lot more than he should have been doing or wanted to be doing”. But, with a solo project to promote, Rafferty has now given his own version of events to the Daily Star, telling the tab the band’s official line was a “load of arse”.
He says that: “I didn’t think [the band’s second album] ‘Konk’ was very good, and I said that. I was unhappy with the whole situation, but it was made to sound like I had a massive drug problem”.
Rafferty is now working on solo material, and is due to release his first single, ‘Lonely Town’, next month.