The K’s talk gatecrashing the UK Album Chart: “We’ve dragged ourselves to the top”

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The K’s are currently Number Two in the UK charts with their debut album ‘I Wonder If The World Knows?’. Vocalist Jamie Boyle has spoken to NME about doing battle with The Libertines, getting picked up by living legend Alan McGee and why guitar music will never die.‘I Wonder If The World Knows?’ was released last Friday (April 5) and according to the midweek chart update, is outselling records from the likes of Conan Gray, Beyoncé, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend and Olivia Rodrigo.“It’s mental.

It’s one of those situations that just doesn’t seem real,” said Boyle. “We definitely feel like underdogs but we’re up for the challenge. “We were hoping for this reaction, but we weren’t expecting it.”“No matter how confident you are in your music, there’s always that bit of self-doubt.

There’s always the fear that people are going to think what you’ve done is shit, but the reaction has been amazing. Whatever the outcome on Friday, we’re buzzing.”Boyle said that when he was 15, The Libertines were one of the bands that first inspired him to pick up a guitar. “If we lose to them, absolutely nobody is going to think we’ve fucked it.”The frontman said that he believes the support for The K’s’ debut album is because people know how hard they’ve worked to get here. “It’s no secret that we’ve gone the long way around,” he explained.The band first formed in 2017 and have gigged relentlessly since the release of first single ‘Sarajevo’ that same year. “We’ve absolutely toured our arses off, which is why we’re in the position that we’re in,” he continued. “We just constantly built that living following up and people know that we’ve done this ourselves.