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20 July 2026 – The Cribs Take Over Somerset House
By Editorial Team - July 20, 2026
Summary
Wakefield trio The Cribs headline Somerset House Summer Series tonight, bringing their raw guitar energy to London.
Key Facts
- The Cribs headline the Somerset House Summer Series in London.
- The band performs a career-spanning set including indie-club favorites.
- Support is provided by the band North.
- Entities: The Cribs, Somerset House, Selling a Vibe, Men's Needs, Hey Scenesters!, Mirror Kissers, I'm a Realist
- Tags: the-cribs, live-music, somerset-house, indie-rock, london
<a href="/tags/the-cribs">The Cribs</a> headline Somerset House Summer Series tonight, bringing their raw guitar energy and instinct for enormous pop melodies into the historic London courtyard. The Wakefield trio begin the second week of the series with support from North and a catalogue stretching from early indie-club favourites to material from <em>Selling a Vibe</em>, the highest-charting album of their career.
Songs such as 'Men’s Needs', 'Hey Scenesters!', 'Mirror Kissers' and 'I’m a Realist' have survived because they sound urgent without becoming polished beyond recognition. A Cribs concert is rarely about immaculate restraint.
It is about guitars, sibling chemistry and the possibility that every chorus may be played as though the venue has announced an unexpected closing time. Somerset House provides an elegant setting, but the band will presumably do its best to make the courtyard feel like a considerably sweatier room.