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• In 2003 The Cribs, three brothers from Wakefield in the UK north, scraped together £1,000 and booked a week in London's eight-track Toe Rag Studios to lay down their eponymous debut album. It was the same studio where The White Stripes' recorded Elephant in two weeks during April 2002. Bassist Gary Jarman recalled to NME in February 2013: "The piano at the end of 'Third Outing' you hear as the feedback's fading out is the piano used on Elephant. The music that we're playing is actually this concept that me and Ryan (Jarman, vocals) had at college: national anthems for countries that didn't exist. We were gonna invent the countries and flags and write the anthems. That piano is the national anthem of the country of Old Shemock. Which never existed."