Maggio 2012
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Arctic Monkeys: 'We couldn't make a record like...
Arctic Monkeys have spoken about their plans for the follow-up to ‘Suck It And See’ and have said that they feel that they could never make another album like their debut ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ again. The band are currently touring across North America as support to The Black Keys and told the Calgary Herald that making another record...
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Aprile 2012
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30 days of: Things you probably didn't know about...
A blonde girl named Lauren Bradwell first dated drummer Matt Helders before switching to singer Alex Turner. But then she broke Alex’s heart when she ditched him for an older lad with a car. And, unable to forget, he poured out his sadness in Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts. Lauren, 20, said: “I knew as soon as I saw the lyrics that the song was about me, and Alex admits it. We...
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Alex Turner’s favourite drink is a Bourbon called Bulleit.
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“How do you react when the British music critic says that you and your friend...”
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Alex Turner in Interview published on Folha de S. Paulo (February 10th 2012)
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The Monkeys hail from High Green, a suburb of the English city of Sheffield and ‘One of my own stunts’ contains a small segment of a tribute to the band’s hometown. Turner explained to NME: “At the end you hear a little snippet of this song we were making up while we in the studio there called ‘I’m From High Green’ which is where we’re from. It was...
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“Hello Coachella we are the Arctic Monkeys from High Green, Sheffield Fucking...”
– Alex Turner at Coachella Festival 2012
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Live stream from Coachella Festival 2012 where... →
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“That’s a dick move.”
– Alex Turner when someone threw a coin on stage in Pomona (via jamiephillipcook)
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“It’s funny because back in the 90s there was like a fucking hundred bands coming out of Britain each week, and they were all just OK. Now, there seems to be a lot fewer, but the quality is better. Arctic Monkeys are one of the few bands in the last six years that were any good, but they’ve been really fucking good.” Noel Gallagher, ladies and gentlemen.
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Matt Helders’ favourite song from ‘Humbug’ is ‘Dance Little Liar’
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505 includes a sample of an organ taken from Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.
“The title [Favourite Worst Nightmare] didn’t come that easily, though. We had a...”
– Alex Turner (via lackingin-tabasco)
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About his songwriting process behind Humbug, Alex Turner said: “I wrote a lot during the middle of the night. I’d wake up, jot things down, then get back to sleep. And some of them became songs about that time of day, when you’re not as alert.”
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Matt Helders: 'We want to do a record that is like...
Arctic Monkeys’ drummer Matt Helders has spoken about the band’s plans for their new record and has revealed that they are keen to continue in the vein of recent single ‘R U Mine?’ and B-side ‘Evil Twin’. Speaking to the Examiner, the drummer replied to a question about their new single by saying: “The way ‘R U Mine?’ has gone we are more into...