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Arctic Monkeys is een Britse indie-rockband uit Sheffield, Engeland en actief sinds 2002. De band bestaat uit zanger/gitarist Alex Turner, gitarist Jamie Cook, bassist Nick O'Malley en drummer Matthew Helders. Tot 2006 was Andy Nicholson bassist van de band.

In 2004 en 2005 kreeg de band bekendheid door het verspreiden van hun demo's via het internet. Dit zorgde voor een mediahype rondom Arctic Monkeys en maakte hun debuutalbum Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not in 2006 het best verkopende debuut ooit in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Evenals het album bereikten de singles "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" en "When The Sun Goes Down" de nummer 1-positie in het land. Een jaar later volgde het tweede album Favourite Worst Nightmare, met leadsingle "Brianstorm". In 2009 verscheen het derde album Humbug, geproduceerd door Josh Homme en James Ford.

De band werd op hun debuutalbum gekenmerkt door hun snelle, agressieve post-punk en Turner's teksten die gebaseerd waren op eigen observaties en ervaringen in Sheffield. Met de komst van hun twee laatste albums evolueerde het geluid meer richting psychedelische- en alternatieve rock.

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32


Albums:

2006: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not [jewelcase CD, digipack CD en LP]


1. The View From The Afternoon
2. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
3. Fake Tales Of San Francisco
4. Dancing Shoes
5. You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights But You Were Looking Straight At Me
6. Still Take You Home
7. Riot Van
8. Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured
9. Mardy Bum
10. Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But...
11. When The Sun Goes Down
12. From The Ritz To The Rubble
13. A Certain Romance

2007: Favourite Worst Nightmare [jewelcase CD, digipack CD en LP]


1. Brianstorm
2. Teddy Picker
3. D Is For Dangerous
4. Balaclava
5. Fluorescent Adolescent
6. Only Ones Who Know
7. Do Me A Favour
8. This House Is A Circus
9. If You Were There, Beware
10. The Bad Thing
11. Old Yellow Bricks
12. 505

2009: Humbug [jewelcase CD, digipack CD en LP]


1. My Propeller
2. Crying Lightning
3. Dangerous Animals
4. Secret Door
5. Potion Approaching
6. Fire & The Thud
7. Cornerstone
8. Dance Little Liar
9. Pretty Visitors
10. The Jeweller's Hands


Singles / EP's:

2005: Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys [CDS en 7" LP] [1500 en 2000 exemplaren]


1. Fake Tales Of San Francisco [Demo-versie 3]
2. From The Ritz To The Rubble [Demo]

2005: I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor [CDS, 7" en 10" LP] [10" alleen in Amerika]


1. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
2. Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts
3. Chun Li's Spinning Bird Kick (niet op 7")

2006: When The Sun Goes Down [CDS, 7" en 12" LP] [12" alleen in Amerika]


1. When The Sun Goes Down
2. Stickin To The Floor (niet op 7")
3. 7 (niet op 7")
4. Settle For A Draw (alleen op 7" en 12", enkel in Canada op CD)

2006: Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? [CD en 10" LP]


1. The View From The Afternoon
2. Cigarette Smoker Fiona
3. Despair In The Departure Lounge
4. No Buses
5. Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?

2006: Leave Before The Lights Come On [CDS en 7" LP]


1. Leave Before The Lights Come On
2. Put Your Dukes Up John (cover Little Flames) (niet op 7")
3. Baby I'm Yours (cover Barbara Lewis)

2007: Brianstorm [CDS, 7" LP en 10" LP]


1. If You Found This It's Probably Too Late (niet op 7")
2. Brianstorm
3. Temptation Greets You Like A Naughty Friend (met Dizzee Rascal)
4. What If You Were Right The First Time? (niet op 7")

2007: Matador / Da Frame 2R [gelimiteerde 7" LP]


A. Matador
B. Da Frame 2R

2007: Fluorescent Adolescent [CDS, 7" LP en 10" LP]


1. Fluorescent Adolescent
2. The Bakery
3. Plastic Tramp (niet op 7")
4. Too Much To Ask (niet op 7")

2007: Teddy Picker [2-track CDS, 4-track CDS, 7" LP en 10" LP]


1. Teddy Picker
2. Bad Woman (met Richard Hawley) (cover Pat Farrell And The Believers)
3. The Death Ramps (niet op 7" en 2-track CDS)
4. Nettles (niet op 7" en 2-track CDS)

2007: The Death Ramps / Nettles [gelimiteerde 7" LP]
uitgebracht onder pseudoniem The Death Ramps


A. The Death Ramps
B. Nettles

2009: Crying Lightning [7" LP en 10" LP]


1. Crying Lightning
2. Red Right Hand (cover Nick Cave)
3. I Haven't Got My Strange

2009: Cornerstone [7" LP, 10" LP en digitale download]


1. Cornerstone (7" LP, 10" LP en digitale download)
2. Catapult (7" LP, 10" LP en digitale download)
3. Sketchead (10" LP en digitale download)
4. Fright Lined Dining Room (10" LP en digitale download))

DVD's:

2006: Scummy Man [DVD]
Korte film, gebaseerd op "When The Sun Goes Down".


2008: Live At The Apollo [normale DVD, DVD met live-CD en boxset met live-LP]
Live-registratie met 20 tracks van het laatste optreden
van hun wereldtournee in 2007.



Non-single covers:

* Love Machine (Girls Aloud)
_{[live gespeeld voor Radio 1's Live Lounge in 2006]
[uitgebracht op CD 'Radio 1's Live Lounge - Volume 1' in 2006]}

* You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse)
_{[live gespeeld voor Radio 1's Live Lounge in 2007]
[uitgebracht op CD 'Radio 1's Live Lounge - Volume 2' in 2007]}

* Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey)
_{[live gespeeld op Glastonbury 2007]
[studio-versie uitgebracht als CD en 10" vinyl op Domino-promo 'All The Rage' in 2008]}

* Take It Or Leave It (The Strokes)
_{[live gespeeld in Franse TV-show in 2007]}

* The Lovers (Rod McKuen)
_{[akoestisch live gespeeld op Radio 1 in 2007]}

Andere versies van nummers:

* Dancing Shoes [Rhythm Del Mundo-versie]
* The Bad Thing [2006 demo]
* Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts [Demo]
* A Certain Romance [Demo]
* Cigarette Smoke (herschreven als Cigarette Smoker Fiona) [Demo]
* Dancing Shoes [Demo]
* Fake Tales Of San Francisco [Demo-versie 1 / Blue Demo]
* Fake Tales Of San Francisco [Demo-versie 2]
* I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor [Demo]
* Mardy Bum [Demo]
* Riot Van [Demo]
* Scummy (herschreven als When The Sun Goes Down) [Demo]
* Stickin' To The Floor [Demo]
* Still Take You Home [Demo]

Overige nummers:

* Choo Choo [Demo]
* Curtains Close [Studio demo]
* Curtains Close [Live-versie]
* Knock A Door Run [Demo]
* On The Run From The MI5 [Demo]
* Ravey Ravey Ravey Club (Word Will Get Around) [Live]
* Space Invaders [Demo]
* Wavin' Bye To The Train Or The Bus [Demo]

* Put Me In A Terror Pocket [live gespeeld sinds november 2007]
* The Wagon On The Way To The Stripey Tent [instrumentale versie van Sandtrap] [live gespeeld in de herfst van 2007]
* Sandtrap [live gespeeld in de herfst van 2007]

"And someone said we didn't have enough songs to headline Glastonbury..."
Alex Turner - 22/06/07, Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival


_{De OP is HIER te vinden. De OP is gemaakt door Arn0 en de discografie door Aisumasen}

[ Bericht 6% gewijzigd door Arn0 op 18-11-2009 00:40 ]

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Op dinsdag 17 november 2009 22:55 schreef Arn0 het volgende:
http://www.spinner.com/20(...)-the-art-of-songwri/

"I mean every now and then you'll see [Arctic Monkeys' bass player Nic)] O'Malley over in the corner sitting quietly with his acoustic, and be like, "er, what you up to over there then?" He'll be like, "oh er nothing." One day he might come forward, either that or he'll just leave."

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Op dinsdag 17 november 2009 22:59 schreef Leonos het volgende:
Mooie plaatjes !

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So, can you see yourselves moving on to stadiums or following in the footsteps of Prince, Britney and Bon Jovi with a residency at London's massive O2 venue next time around?
No!

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Op dinsdag 17 november 2009 23:04 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Prima, update ik de discografie wel als er onduidelijke dingen in staan ofzo .

PM naar de b-sides trouwens?

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Op dinsdag 17 november 2009 23:14 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Hun releases kunnen overweldigend overkomen, en een compleet en foutloos overzicht is op weinig andere plekken te vinden. Voor een nieuwe fan hoop ik dat het handig is.

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Op dinsdag 17 november 2009 23:18 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Niet handig aanpasbaar. Plaats 'em dan in een aparte post, zoals we eigenlijk altijd hebben gedaan .

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 01:47 schreef Merkie het volgende:

Arctic Monekys - My Propeller & Red Right Hand (Live @ Liquidroom 2009.10.18)

Dit filmpje is om twee redenen raar. Ten eerste dat muisstille Japanse publiek, ten tweede Alex die twee keer aan het publiek vraagt of ze er klaar voor zijn en vervolgens hetzelfde aan Jamie vraagt.

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Op dinsdag 17 november 2009 23:14 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Hun releases kunnen overweldigend overkomen, en een compleet en foutloos overzicht is op weinig andere plekken te vinden. Voor een nieuwe fan hoop ik dat het handig is.

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 10:27 schreef febster het volgende:
Heerlijke B-sides

Kunnen ze niet gewoon eens een B-sides concert geven, in de Paradiso of ergens in een bovenzaaltje ofzo?

Mocht dat ooit gebeuren, dan zijn jullie bij deze alvast uitgenodigd

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 00:55 schreef Merkie het volgende:
Het leukste van dat interview vind ik dat Alex het over Scummy Man heeft i.p.v. over When The Sun Goes Down .

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 19:16 schreef MilanILF het volgende:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/6music/
Matt en Nick nu. nog een kwartiertje bezig.

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 19:29 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Wat is daar zo bijzonder aan?

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 12:31 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Je kunt stemmen op Arctic Monkeys voor 3VOOR12 Song van het Jaar: http://stem.omroep.nl/VPRO/2009/134-song-van-het-jaar-2009

Helaas dan weer niet op de échte song van het jaar .

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 20:03 schreef Arn0 het volgende:

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Als je nog niets van ze hebt, is dat toch een enorm mooie collectie?

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 20:05 schreef portie het volgende:

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Die hele lijst is gewoon raar. Niet helemaal dan, maar zoals kings of leon met use somebody? Dead weather met Hang from the heavens? Vreemde keuzes

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 20:13 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:

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Ja, voor een stuk hogere prijs dan dat je het los verzamelt.

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 20:37 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
En dat gedoe is juist de charme van het verzamelen. Daar komt bij dat die paar uitgaven ook weer niet zo veel moeite zijn om aan te klikken en te kopen. 't is maar waar je zo veel geld voor wilt betalen.

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 22:38 schreef febster het volgende:
Beetje laag als je het mij vraagt .

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 22:44 schreef tim. het volgende:

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Het debuutalbum staat wel op 3 hoor . Maar vergeleken met bijvoorbeeld LCD Soundsystem (twee albums in de top 20) is het wel laag.

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 22:55 schreef febster het volgende:

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Weet ik, maar ik vind hem (enigzins 'objectief' gezien) wel een top 20 positie waard.

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Op donderdag 19 november 2009 08:11 schreef AMDB het volgende:

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'We' verdienen het gewoon om 1, 2 én 3 te hebben. Fuck de journalisten!

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Op donderdag 19 november 2009 13:28 schreef febster het volgende:

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Hey hey hey, niks tegen journalisten he

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"That got me more into doing studio stuff than before, because with this album it was more of a studio experience," said Helders to 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq. "The first record we done quick, and it was just like, ‘get in and press record’ sort of thing, but this one we were thinking about sounds more and trying loads of stuff, so it got me into that sort of stuff more.

"We’re already talking about when we can record again, but I still enjoy being on tour as well."

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Op donderdag 19 november 2009 21:04 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Richard Hawley staat vanavond met een "sensatie" uit z'n geboorteplaats op het podium in Londen. Ra ra...

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Op donderdag 19 november 2009 21:44 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:

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Een akoestische set van Alex, John en Jamie. Onder andere een duet met Richard Hawley.

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Op donderdag 19 november 2009 23:19 schreef Leonos het volgende:
Dus ze komen wel. AM acoustisch

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Op donderdag 19 november 2009 23:38 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Jawel, maar de Arctic Monkeys-nummers als voorprogramma zijn (semi)-akoestisch gespeeld door Alex en John Ashton, en later met Jamie.

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Op donderdag 19 november 2009 23:44 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Ja, dat klopt. Rest weet ik nog niet.

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 22:44 schreef tim. het volgende:

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Het debuutalbum staat wel op 3 hoor . Maar vergeleken met bijvoorbeeld LCD Soundsystem (twee albums in de top 20) is het wel laag.

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Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner played a surprise set tonight (November 19) at the Mencap Little Noise Sessions.

Taking place at Islington Union Chapel the Arctic Monkeys man performed a seven-song set which featured two new untitled songs.

Turner's set also included the Arctic Monkeys hits 'Fluorescent Adolescent', 'Secret Door' and current single 'Cornerstone'.

Accompanied by a keyboardist, Turner was also joined on stage by his bandmate Jamie Cook who played on the tracks 'Secret Door' and 'Cornerstone'.

Headlining the event was Richard Hawley whose set featured the songs 'Born Under A Bad Sign', 'Serious', 'Open Up The Door', 'Ashes On The Fire', 'For Your Lover Give Some Time' and a cover of Elvis Presley's 'Crawfish'.

Later in the set Hawley then brought back on Alex Turner introducing him as "The lizard of lounge," before the pair played the Arctic Monkeys song 'Only Ones Who Know'.

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Op vrijdag 20 november 2009 07:58 schreef Arn0 het volgende:
"which featured two new untitled songs."

Zouden ze het over de nieuwe b-kanten hebben, of totaal nieuwe nummers?

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Op vrijdag 20 november 2009 08:12 schreef AMDB het volgende:
Vraag het me af, denk zelf dat het B-kanten zijn, zal niet veel die-hard AM publiek geweest zijn dat alles kent.

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Op vrijdag 20 november 2009 08:13 schreef Arn0 het volgende:

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Ja, daar vrees ik ook voor. Maar als er iemand van NME zelf aanwezig was, zou je toch verwachten dat hij ze kent, niet?

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Op vrijdag 20 november 2009 08:14 schreef AMDB het volgende:

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Nee, eigenlijk niet Heb niet zo'n hoge pet op van NME

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And, after fans complained the band didn't play Mardy Bum at the Reading and Leeds festival, he decided he might take a leaf out of the Aussie singer's book and take requests.

"Kylie did a bit of that. People shouted and then she did a cappella. That's what I'm gonna do.

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Op vrijdag 20 november 2009 09:57 schreef febster het volgende:

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/s(...)r.html#ixzz0XO89cKMO

Dat zou wel tof zijn

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'I Don't Wanna Set The The World On Fire'
'Joining The Dots'
'Flourescent Adolescent'
'Only You Know'
'Secret Door'
'Cornerstone'
'Untitled New Song'

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Op vrijdag 20 november 2009 14:00 schreef Arn0 het volgende:

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* AMDB realiseert zich dat hij wéér op een vrijdag hoort dat er nieuwe liedjes zijn, het is niet leuk meer

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Op vrijdag 20 november 2009 15:39 schreef hallo-daar het volgende:
Is die I Don't Wanna Set The World On Fire ook een nieuwe of is dat een cover?

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Richard Hawley and Alex Turner team up for Little Noise gig

Yorkshire's status as an incubator for songsmiths was given a three-fold affirmation tonight as Sheffield crooner Richard Hawley teamed up with Arctic Monkey Alex Turner and Corinne Bailey Rae unveiled new tracks at the Little Noise Sessions in London.

Hawley and Turner joined forces during the former's headline set, performing a cover of the Arctics' track The Only Ones Who Know. Introducing Turner to the stage he described him as a "Sheffield legend," while Turner said: "I wanted to do one of his songs I assure you."

Meanwhile the big surprise of the night was a set by Turner himself, which featured two unnamed new songs, as well as stripped back versions of Fluorescent Adolescent, Secret Door and Cornerstone - with Arctics guitarist Jamie Cook joining for the Humbug tracks.

Initially a touch tentative, Turner seemed much more at ease when joined by Cook and the pair of tracks from the band's latest album seemed to exude confidence in an acoustic setting, perhaps even moreso than the studio and recent live versions. [..]

Perhaps the most tantalising prospect of the evening was Hawley's suggestion that he and Turner might work together again. He told 6 Music: "Well we are gonna you know... I really want um... I'm not saying. No I'm not! I'll get shot."

NME recently revealed that Turner voted for Hawley in the magazine's 50 Albums of the Decade list. "We're not best mates but I know him enough to know that he's a solid kid, a gentle bloke, and funny," said Hawley of Turner on Thursday. "I enjoy his company. They're all top lads, little monkeys."

Ahead of the show, Hawley revealed he did not have to go through usual formalities to get the Arctics on board. "I went to see them when they were in Sheffield the other day and said, 'Fancy getting up with us?' "He said, 'Yeah'. It's not complicated. We don't need to do managers and 'your people talk to my people' and all that nonsense. It's just mates."

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Arctic Monkeys hit their stride
They started the decade aged 14 and ended it with the biggest-selling debut album in British history. And the boys from Sheffield are still moving forward, fast.



It is Christmas 2001. Two lads from High Green, Sheffield, receive electric guitars from Santa. They are 15 and 16, and the first thing they learn to play together is Monty Norman’s James Bond Theme. Then they learn Oasis chords. They form a band with two other mates from school and, when they’re not hanging about the school playing fields drinking cider and cheap wine, they play White Stripes covers and The Ballad of Chasey Lain by the Bloodhound Gang.

Graduating from the older guitarist’s dad’s garage, they play their first gig, supporting a band called the Sound at a local pub, the Grapes. Their eight-song set comprises three covers and five self-written songs. The drummer recalls that their mates said afterwards: “You’re actually quite good!” It is Friday, June 13, 2003, and Arctic Monkeys have just had the first hint that the band might be on to something.

It is Friday, November 13, 2009. Backstage at the 11,000-capacity Liverpool Echo Arena with Arctic Monkeys. Two dressing rooms, tagged Sexy Room 1 and Sexy Room 2. Their rider isn’t particularly lavish, but they have been provided with a clothes iron of such beauty that the guitarist Jamie Cook, 24, feels compelled to use it. “I don’t even need to iron owt,” the chirpy, time-served tiler says as he whips out a shirt.

Along the corridor: a table-tennis room, signposted by the laminated legend “Ground Zero Battle Zone”. A catering room, wherein the culinary centrepiece is a mound of rolls filled with fish fingers (hangover food in exelcis — the Monkeys have travelled overnight on their sleek tour bus from London, where they were filming an appearance on Jonathan Ross’s chat show; they don’t look as if they slept much). To some excitement, a parcel arrives from Tokyo — it contains all the stuff that their party left in their Tokyo hotel rooms: Cook’s coat, a dirty sock, gifts from fans, even a Tokyo city guide.

From the Grapes in Sheffield to Budokan in Tokyo: Arctic Monkeys have come a long way, fast. Their first fully available — ie, not limited-edition — single, I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, entered the charts at No 1 in October 2005. Their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, was, at the time, the fastest-selling debut album in British history. It went on to win the Mercury Music Prize. Within 18 months of those feats they’d released a second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare (which was also nominated for the Mercury), and headlined the main stage at Glastonbury. They have, to date, won five Brit Awards.

Do they think that they’ve made an album — or albums — of the Noughties? Or are they as dismissive of such rankings as the lyrics to the 2007 single Teddy Picker would suggest, “Sorry sunshine it doesn’t exist/ It wasn’t in the top 100 list”.

The singer and guitarist, Alex Turner, 23 — wearing la denim jacket over a Mexican-style knitted cardigan picked up in a second-hand shop in Austin, Texas (“I were looking for a chair”), and loafers — sparks up a Camel. “We’ve had a lot of this recently in interviews. The first record is usually on the list that’s put in front of us,” he says of Arctic Monkeys’ debut. “I’m happy that people think that.”

He gazes off, his mind turning, as it often does, on its own wheels, in marked contrast to the direct conversational zip of his lyrics. He fiddles with his hair, stares at the wall, studies his knees. He thinks it’s good that these lists mention the Strokes’ Is This It, an album that reminds him of sitting on the 266 bus at home in Sheffield, listening on his Walkman. But he thinks it’s bad that Highly Evolved by the Vines — the “Australian Nirvana” and the first band Turner saw live, “seems to have ducked off the list. I love that record. His melodies.”

But still, it’s pretty good going to write an album that’s classed as one of the best of the Noughties, especially considering that he had just turned 14 when the decade started.

“Yeah, I guess so.” The frontman, lyricist and chief songwriter considers this. “I’d never thought of it like that.”

For all his laconic, wan repose, as he sprawls on a sofa in Sexy Room 1 it is apparent that there are a couple of things Turner would like to clear up. Given how rarely his band grant interviews, it’s little wonder misunderstanding has arisen. Throw in the heavy sound of Arctic Monkeys’ “difficult” third album, Humbug, and confusion was bound to ensue. Apart from headline shows at the Reading and Leeds festivals (and a Brixton Academy warm-up), they’ve been away constantly — touring America, Japan and Europe — since the August release of Humbug, which they part-recorded in the Californian desert with their producer Josh Homme, the guitarist and leader of the hard-rocking Queens of the Stone Age. This cold and wet afternoon in the regenerated Liverpool dockside, the opening night of the band’s UK tour is a good time to sort things out.

First of all, My Propeller, the opening song on Humbug. I first heard it when Arctic Monkeys performed it at the Highline Ballroom in New York in early August. Turner’s English girlfriend, the New York-based MTV chat-show hostess Alexa Chung, was in attendance. For much of this year she and Turner have shared an apartment in Brooklyn. Is the move reflected in the new songs he’s been writing? “Not in the way that living in Sheffield was reflected in those first album tunes.” No,Turner wants to clarify, “personal” Humbug song The Fire and the Thud is not about Chung moving to New York (“if it’s true you are going to run away, tell me where, I’ll meet you there”). Is it about her generally? “Well, like I say, it’s very personal . . .”

Anyway, My Propeller. Perched on a banquette, Chung responded to the song’s being broadcast by enthusiastically rotating her head, ponytail swinging. “Coax me out my low and have a spin on my propeller,” the song goes, “my propeller won’t spin and I can’t get it started on my own/ when are you arriving?” Is this an uncharacteristically sexual lyric from the young maestro of kitchen sink/sink estate realism?

“Absolutely not,” Turner says, becoming almost animated. “If that was a euphemism, then I wouldn’t be saying that my propeller wouldn’t spin — ’cos you wouldn’t wanna go shouting that out, would you?”

“I can’t get a hard-on,” pipes up the bass player Nick O’Malley, 24, who’s perched on the edge of the sofa next to him.

“Ha-ha, youknowwhatImean?” Turner laughs in agreement. “And even if I’d sorta brung meself to be that ... lubricious,” he says, savouring the word, “I’d make it spin, wouldn’t I?”

So what is it really about?

“It’s more describing a mood more than an organ. A descent. It’s about a descent.” And no, he won’t elaborate further.

At the Highline show in New York, Arctic Monkeys began the set with the at-the-time-unheard Pretty Visitors, a rootling, tootling bit of fairground gothica. It was a challenging way to open the show. P Diddy, the new best mate of the drummer Matt Helders, 23, was at the front, thrashing around dancing, before being wrongfooted by the crooner ambience of Cornerstone. “Yeah, he were in full attack mode,” O’Malley chuckles, “then we pulled out a softy.” No, Diddy didn’t quite get Cornerstone. “He’s not alone there,” Turner mutters.

All of this underlines something that Homme has said, that after two albums of high-octane indie-rock on their third album Arctic Monkeys were “looking for the weird”. Do they agree? Turner pauses for even longer than normal before replying.

“We definitely wanted to go away this time, and take a bit more time with it. In the past we’ve been opposed to the ideas of producers or whatever,” he says. “We were reluctant to let anyone in. But I guess just through doing it a bit longer, through being more confident with it or something . . .”

This confidence led them, at Homme’s urging, to take a trip to The Integratron, a so-called “rejuvenation machine” built in the Mojave desert by George Van Tassel, where they recorded “a blueprint” for the album track Secret Door. “It were definitely a strange environment,” Turner says. “Not in a bad way, just, ‘Why don’t you take your shoes off and climb up this little ladder through this hatch . . .’ And you can sorta hear everyone’s voices from the other side of the room, just the way the sound bounces round. So it was pretty interesting.”

Finally, there’s a third topic to clear up. The hair. Arctic Monkeys, previously the tidy, trim, unassuming, short-back-and-sides Mod-squad of modern inner-city Britain, now have rock-star manes. Even Helders, sports-casual smart, is growing some kind of fuzzy afro.

“My mum prefers it to when I had a shaved head,” Turner says of the flowing follicular explosion that makes him seem even more slight, more elfin. “But she’d like a medium length.” This only child’s father — like his mother, a teacher (she teaches German, he teaches music) — has always sported a slightly grown-out look. “Me dad’s hair was never this length, but it’s always been too long for me mum. But it’s got to the point now where she’s stopped saying to me, ‘Are you gonna get it cut?’ Now she’s like, ‘Just use this . . .’ ”

Conditioner?

“Nah, only kidding,” Turner says, a little too hastily. Then, recovering quickly, “That’s Cookie that says that. He’s like, ‘Use this, this is what you want’. He’s shit-hot with product. He’s got some inside information,” he winks, an apparent reference to the guitarist’s girlfriend, a former glamour model who now works as a make-up artist.

The hair, though, has attracted much debate in the blogosphere and music press. What does it mean?

“I’m not sure the hair is a signifier of any kind,” Richard Ayoade says when we speak on the phone a few days after Liverpool. The star of TV’s The IT Crowd-turneddirector has made three videos with Arctic Monkeys, including the concert video Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo. “It seems like everyone’s gone back to the Fifties, where people are berating people for having long hair. I don’t know how much analysis the hair bears.”

It’s obvious, surely? It’s a visual representation of Arctic Monkeys’ new rock’n’roll attitude. Onstage, it allows them to headbang more effectively. “Ay, we were just discussing that,” Cook nods, beer in hand, when I corner him at the aftershow party several hours later.

What was the conclusion? He smiles and shrugs. There wasn’t one.

They’re a funny bunch, Arctic Monkeys. I spent three months with them in late 2005, during the period when Dancefloor crashed into the charts at No 1 with such a furore that they were featured, much to their bewilderment, on Sky News and in The Economist. I spent a similar period with them in 2007, yet when I meet them in Liverpool it’s as if we’ve never met before.

Their languid indifference and none-more-cool “greeting” could easily be interpreted as rudeness. Turner, the Brooklyn-dwelling half of a “celebrity couple” and studiedly aloof, is himself now suggestive of the local phonies he berated in an early song, Fake Tales from San Francisco, “you’re not from New York City you’re from Rotherham”.

Except he isn’t, and they’re not. It’s just the way they are. As it always was with Arctic Monkeys, put them on the spot with a tape-recorder or a camera and the gears jam up; stop attempting to record their thoughts and likenesses and they revert to being the jokey, tight-knit bunch of mates from school. As demonstrated by the busy aftershow party, these extraordinarily ordinary lads are at their most comfortable with the gang they’ve known since their early days. Turner may have shipped out but O’Malley, Cook and Helders all still live in Sheffield, with Cook still turning out for his pub Sunday league football team.

Ayoade says we shouldn’t be fooled by the poker faces. “They’re not miserable, they don’t take themselves too seriously.” After all, they did dress up as Village People, the cast of The Wizard of Oz and English country gents to accept their three Brit Awards in 2007 and 2008 (to go with the two they won in 2006). “I think it’s impossible for someone to be that good if they don’t have a sense of humour. No, I can’t think of any particular non-follicle-based change.”

But there is. That night the packed Liverpool Echo Arena audience sloshes around on a sea of lager as the fans go bananas for early songs such as When the Sun Goes Down and Fluorescent Adolescent, then go to the toilets during the slower new songs. The ever-restless Monkeys — in less than half a decade, four albums, a couple of EPs, a short film, umpteen B-sides — are moving forward, fast, still. Not all of their fans will be able to keep up. One suspects that Turner isn’t entirely unhappy about this. Unlike Oasis and Robbie Williams, he isn’t aiming for Knebworth.

Arctic Monkeys are touring until March next year. Then, Turner thinks, they’ll record another album straight away. Would he consider writing about recessionary Britain, about the prospect of life under a Tory government?

He squirms a little. “I like the idea that someone would do that ... well. It’s a tricky one, though, isn’t it? ’Cos while our first album certainly is, or was, socially relevant in the sense that it was an observation of what was going on in town, it never — to me at least, writing it then — felt like it’d ever go out of town. So you’re almost taking a different approach to do that now, knowing that it . . .” He tails off, discomfited at the thought of talking about his songs reaching a global audience. “Most of ’em songs were written to make me friends laugh. The little punchlines in them were designed for a group of mates.”

And then, without him asking for it, those Sheffield mates became the whole country. As if by magic, Turner — according to countless media commentaries — was the spokesman for a generation.

“I suppose,” he muses, “they don’t say that too much any more.”

A pale smile, and something like relief, flickers on his face.

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Then, Turner thinks, they’ll record another album straight away.

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Op zaterdag 21 november 2009 22:00 schreef MilanILF het volgende:
Anti-climax vandaag?

Arctic Monkeys at BBC1's Live Lounge - Interview 1 - 21-11-09 [1/4]

Arctic Monkeys at BBC1's Live Lounge - Cornerstone - 21-11-09 [2/4]

Arctic Monkeys at BBC1's Live Lounge - Interview 2 - 21-11-09 [3/4]

Arctic Monkeys at BBC1's Live Lounge - Secret Door - 21-11-09 [4/4]

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Op zaterdag 21 november 2009 22:13 schreef AMDB het volgende:
Wanneer komen de singlecharts uit? Benieuwd naar de positie van Cornerstone

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Op zaterdag 21 november 2009 22:18 schreef Arn0 het volgende:

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Morgenmiddag, normaal gezien.

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Op zondag 22 november 2009 17:44 schreef Merkie het volgende:
Mooi.

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Op zondag 22 november 2009 17:45 schreef Arn0 het volgende:

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Jij vindt het goed dat ze Sketchead gedropt hebben?

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Op zondag 22 november 2009 17:40 schreef Arn0 het volgende:

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Ze staan alvast in de top 25

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Op zondag 22 november 2009 17:46 schreef Merkie het volgende:

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Ja, niemand kent het nummer en iedereen staart maar een beetje dwaas voor zich uit.

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Op zaterdag 21 november 2009 22:13 schreef AMDB het volgende:
Wanneer komen de singlecharts uit? Benieuwd naar de positie van Cornerstone

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Op zondag 22 november 2009 18:13 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Ik had ook gedacht dat hij helemaal niet zou binnenkomen, maar ik vertrouw op Arn0, die in de show gehoord heeft dat ze in de top 25 staan. Het verbaasd mij zeer.

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Op zondag 22 november 2009 18:33 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Haha, zat ik net aan te denken. Nee, in dat geval komen ze helemaal niet binnen .

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Op zondag 22 november 2009 17:43 schreef Arn0 het volgende:
Ohja, ze hebben Sketchead gedropt van hun setlist

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Op zondag 22 november 2009 18:36 schreef Arn0 het volgende:

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Wel wat teleurstellend, had toch wel verwacht dat ze in de top 40 zouden staan. Ik weet niet hoeveel singles de #40 gemiddeld verkoopt, eigenlijk.

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Op zondag 22 november 2009 18:53 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:

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Het is een nauwelijks gepromote niet fysiek verkrijgbare single, van een nummer wat al maanden op een album staat. Was dit de eerste single geweest van een nog uit te komen album, was het heel anders geweest. Een nummer 1 verkoopt gemiddeld rond de 100.000 singles in Engeland. De nummer 40 verkoopt er gemiddeld rond de 5000. "Crying Lightning" debuteerde op basis van digitale downloads op nummer 12 met 17.500 verkochte exemplaren. Laten we maar niet beginnen over Nederland...

Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning

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The Sheffield band gave a nod to Rod Stewart during the MEN Arena show, with frontman Alex Turner singing the chorus of the former Faces man's 1978 hit 'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?' during 'Crying Lightning'.

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Op zondag 22 november 2009 17:43 schreef Arn0 het volgende:
Ohja, ze hebben Sketchead gedropt van hun setlist

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Op zondag 22 november 2009 21:55 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Hmm... Was het niet juist de bedoeling dat ze een keer wat méér nummers gaan spelen ?

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Op zondag 22 november 2009 21:59 schreef TC03 het volgende:
Mardy Bum, weer? .