The Kooks didn't feel "particularly in competition" with Arctic Monkeys in their heyday, because they were "so different".
Both groups released their debut albums, The Kooks’ Inside In/Inside Out, and Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, on the same day, January 23, 2006, but Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard has insisted his band didn't compare themselves to the Teddy Picker hitmakers because The Kooks "weren’t really meant to be as big as [they] were".
