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The Cribs: "We Were Aborted" (Live on Jools Holland) (Video)

8:26 a.m. · October 5, 2009 · by Nick Neyland

Johnny Marr continues his post-Smiths career as a guitarist for hire on this live clip of The Cribs from Jools Holland’s show. Marr has played with the band for a while now, and claims to be a full-time member, although those Smiths-to-reform stories are never going to go away.

“We Were Aborted” is a spiky, guitar-driven song that opens the Cribs’ recent Ignore the Ignorant album, which has been a top 10 hit in the band’s native UK. Marr is in good company—the Cribs have previously collaborated with Edwyn Collins, Lee Ranaldo, and Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand.