Arctic Monkeys #15 - The Fire and the Thud

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Op donderdag 21 februari 2008 01:33 schreef febster het volgende:

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Ik zie hem ook goed, en ik houd je niet tegen om dit hele topic vol te posten, deze pics zijn zeer oke

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Op donderdag 21 februari 2008 01:39 schreef febster het volgende:

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Ik mis de hond nog om op vossen te jagen en de pijp die ze aan het roken zijn .. Ik snap die Brit School referenties ook niet zo, maar dat kan ook aan mij liggen. Ik vermoed dat ze nog wel dronken gaan worden (of al zijn) vnv, en ik vermoed dat er ook nog wel het een en het ander gaat gebeuren .

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Op donderdag 21 februari 2008 02:03 schreef MaJo het volgende:

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Je kent me te goed

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Op donderdag 21 februari 2008 02:07 schreef febster het volgende:

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Ik meen me te herinneren dan Keith Richards ook op de Brit school heeft gezeten, maar dat weet ik niet zeker ...Maar tnx voor wederom een berg leuke info over de aapjes ... See you at the crossroads heeft wellicht iets te maken met een afterparty?

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Op donderdag 21 februari 2008 02:10 schreef MaJo het volgende:

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Ik moest wel

_{Al had ik precies zo gereageerd als je dat niet gezegd had}

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Op donderdag 21 februari 2008 02:13 schreef febster het volgende:

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Op commando haast ... Inside jokes zijn wel tof, alleen had ik gehoopt dat ze ook voor anderen te bevatten zijn ... Hebben ze overigens nog iets meer gewonnen eigenlijk?

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Op donderdag 21 februari 2008 02:15 schreef febster het volgende:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Arctic+Monkeys+brit+awards+2008&search_type=

*F5 F5 F5*

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Op donderdag 21 februari 2008 02:23 schreef febster het volgende:

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Ik ben altijd blij als ik bij een zin die Alex zegt 1 woord kan verstaan, zeker bij de concerten. Neem dat gebrabbel van hem over die mobiele heineken tap kereltjes ...
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Ik weet het, maar ik ga wijs zijn en eens slapen .. Zie ongetwijfeld morgen wel allemaal wat voor info je nog verzameld hebt of er op het internet/youtube is verschenen.

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Brit Awards bosses pull plug on Arctic Monkeys abusive speech



Angry TV bosses pulled the plug on the Arctic Monkeys after they unleashed an abusive tirade.

The cheeky Sheffield boys were dressed as country gentlemen for the evening, but their Arctic antics were hardly gentle.
Arctic Monkeys

After winning Best British Group, frontman Alex Turner sarcastically dedicated his win to the Brits school - the performing school which benefits financially from the awards ceremony.

He snarled: "I'd like to thank the Brit school, of course, which I graduated from."

But before he could dig himself in any further over the school, whose past students include the Kooks, Adele and Will Young, ITV bosses blasted out fake cheering from the speakers, turned off their mikes and cut to the backstage interview with Fearne Cotton.

The band then furiously threw their mikes into the crowd and tried to hurl the lectern on to the floor. An onlooker said: "It was chaos and the Monkeys didn't look happy about being cut off.

"They were clearly drunk as they were slurring their words, but they wanted their moment in the spotlight."

Last year the band refused to attend the ceremony despite being up for a number of awards - instead choosing to dress up in Wizard Of Oz and Village People costumes.

The foursome donned the costumes to accept their Brit Awards by video link.

Thankfully, though, the boys didn't have a pop at gong-winners Take That this year.

The rock group turned on the reformed boyband at the 2006 Q awards, when Alex Turner called Gary Barlow and the boys a "load of b*******."

Wonder what the cheeky monkeys have planned for next year?

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Op donderdag 21 februari 2008 13:41 schreef MaJo het volgende:
Bizar dat het geluid weggedraaid wordt omdat ze een grapje maken over de Brit School? Censuur

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Op donderdag 21 februari 2008 15:30 schreef AMDB het volgende:
Ik heb zoveel bij te lezen en bij te kijken. Doe ik vanavond of morgen wel.

Maar iig 2 nietszeggende awards, voor op de schoorsteenmantel. Waar aan de kledij te zien ook wel wat berenvellen voor liggen, en opgezette hertenhoofden naast hangen.

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Op donderdag 21 februari 2008 16:04 schreef jakkop het volgende:
Maar dat nep-applaus lijkt me een beetje sterk... je ziet t publiek ook gewoon juichen enzo.

Maar die fuckers van ITV trekken gewoon de stekker der uit. Beetje kinderachtig.

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Annoucing The Age Of The Understatement

Domino is proud to herald the release of 'The Age Of The Understatement', the debut album by The Last Shadow Puppets on Monday the 21st of April 2008.

The Last Shadow Puppets are Alex Turner (from Arctic Monkeys) and Miles Kane (from The Rascals), close comrades since Arctic Monkeys toured with Kane's previous group, The Little Flames and inspired by listening to the likes of Scott Walker, early Bowie and David Axelrod, they hatched their adventurous operation.

The result; 'The Age Of The Understatement', is an album of 12 full-blooded songs, bold and brassy, full of drama, wit and melody, that source the past but avoiding the minefields of pastiche.

The first firing shot will be the single 'The Age Of The Understatement', released on Monday the 14th of April.

Have a look at www.theageoftheunderstatement.com for a glimpse of a brave new world.

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1. The Age Of The Understatement
2. Standing Next To Me
3. Calm Like You
4. Separate and Ever Deadly
5. Chamber
6. Only The Truth
7. My Mistakes Were Made For You
8. Black Plant
9. I Don't Like You Any More
10. In My Room
11. Meeting Place
12. The Time Has Come Again

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Op vrijdag 25 januari 2008 13:20 schreef Leonos het volgende:
Guitar Hero
Waarom zitten de AM niet in GH?

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Op vrijdag 22 februari 2008 19:18 schreef Leonos het volgende:

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Werkt niet op xbox en deze klopt ook niet helemaal

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Op maandag 25 februari 2008 21:51 schreef AMDB het volgende:

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Oh jee, waar was je geweest zonder die 2 track CDS. Dan had iedereen je uitgelachen

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Op dinsdag 26 februari 2008 00:57 schreef tim. het volgende:

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Is dat zo'n cd met een radio edit erop? Toch geen gewone single voor verkoop?

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Alex Turner and Miles Kane: The Full Album Story


Alex Turner and Miles Kane have finally named their joint project – and gave NME the first listen to their debut album. The Arctic Monkeys and Rascals frontmen will release their record 'The Age Of The Understatement' as The Last Shadow Puppets on April 21. The title track will be released as a single the week before (April 14).

Taking time out from their day jobs, the pair flew to the Russian capital Moscow last week to shoot a video together, and that's where we caught up with them.

"We've been in Russia – we've done the biggest video ever", declares Kane after a long day on the set. "It's going to look great. The pair of us have been heading around various places in Moscow over the last few days. I won't reveal it all but wait until you see it – it will blow your head".

The exotic location is easily justified by the music the pair have created. Certain to surprise even the most loyal fan, 'The Age Of The Understatement' is a widescreen, glamorous record full of sweeping strings, echoing guitars, tender love songs and some standout vocal performances from them both. With its understated orchestras and exotic soundtrack feel, The Last Shadow Puppets are making pop music in the truest tradition of artists such as Scott Walker and Burt Bacharach.

"They're pop songs, exactly," agrees Turner. "Somebody needs to do proper pop – there's so much of the antithesis of that around now. On the other hand, and not in a nasty way, we're also the opposite of loads who are trying to be dead trashy at the moment – unnaturally trashy."

Pop songs they may be, but even a cursory listen reveals 'The Age Of The Understatement' to be no mere vanity project from an indie superstar – this is a genuine case of two good friends making an album that's inspired purely by their record collections.

"That's the thing," explains Turner. "Those songs came from just us two playing together. We've got these demos from last April with us just on acoustics, just singing them because we're really into it. Because of that we built a good relationship with those tunes even before we recorded them".

"I feel that we really got in and behind that kind of music," agrees Kane. "You can feel the connection we have with it. There's no joking about, it's really meant and really natural."

From the stampeding Spaghetti Western feel of opener and single 'The Age Of The Understatement' – with its frenzied chorus ("Before this attraction ferments/ Kiss me properly and pull me apart") belted out in unison by the duo – it's clear that the interplay between the two is one of its major strengths.

"We discovered our voices went well together really early on and it was one of the things that really spurred us on to make the album," explains Kane, adding that there was no masterplan behind the project, which was recorded with James Ford (who also played drums) last August.
"It was just a natural process all the way through," he explains. "We started by saying, 'Let's write some tunes,' then we thought, 'Let's record them,' so we went to France and did some tunes last summer and each tune we did we thought, 'This is sounding better and better.' It's just grown in its own way, without us thinking about it too much. When you don't, it probably turns out better because there's just been enjoyment in it all the way through, and I think that comes across. There's no thinking behind it other than me and Al are into it."

Other highlights on the record include 'My Mistakes Were Made For You', which finds Turner in full crooner mode, singing effortlessly over a blissful pop tune; the polka-driven 'Separate and Ever Deadly', which finds the pair viciously swapping lines ("Can't you see I'm the ghost in the wrong coat/ Biting butter and crumbs"); and 'Meeting Place', which is a sublime piece of pure Bacharach-esque pop. On the latter song Turner is keen to credit the work of the pair's orchestral collaborator – Arcade Fire associate Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy.

"There's a song called 'Meeting Place' that he really brought to life", says Turner. "When we were recording in France we did come up with some lines, just as initial ideas to send to him. They were quite basic, but he built on that and then he came over for three days in December to record them. We all got together in this hotel room and went through it all. He hasn't worked on too many albums before. He's our age and I think he did a bit on the second Arcade Fire record 'Funeral' and 'Neon Bible' and used to play with them, but I think he was inexperienced enough to have so much excitement for the songs. He know when to leave it out – if it was on all the songs it would be bad – but he knew when we really needed something extra."

With the full album finished last month, the pair had to then come up with a name, having being unofficially known as Turner And Kane for ages.

And despite saying they wanted the word "shadow" in the name somewhere, they admit there isn't really any secret meaning behind it.

"It's The Last Shadow Puppets, because hopefully it means there won't need to be any more Shadow Puppets," laughs Turner.

"It's quire big and dramatic," suggests Kane. "You can look at us as shadow puppets, I guess. We're both in our bands, so this is in our own shadows. It's in our own little world."

Back in the real world, The Rascals release their first single proper 'Suspicious Wit' this week (it was out Monday, February 18). "I fly back from the video shoot and have to go straight up to Liverpool for a gig with The Rascals and then we've got a bit of a tour," explains Kane. "It's been non-stop the last few days, having to go around and set the album up, but I'm thoroughly enjoying it. It's the first time I've had to do this for a record, but it feels good – it's giving me a real taster for The Rascals." However, all the upcoming action with the Liverpool band doesn't mean The Last Shadow Puppets will be a limited project.

"There's a song on the album called 'Separate and Ever Deadly', which we actually did in London after the original sessions," explains Turner. "We thought it was going to be a B-side, but when we'd finished it we knew it had to replace this other track because we're dead excited about it. I think that's good, because if we had done it all in France it might feel like a fluke couple of weeks. It's good that we've got that one because it means hopefully we'll do more in the future."

And that could mean live shows. "We've talked about it, but maybe later on in the year after The Rascals," says Kane. "It's definitely a possibility. It's a living, breathing thing and live it would be brilliant."

"I'm looking forward to it coming out," concludes Turner. "I hope that people get it and understand where we're coming from and why we wanted to do an album like this. I hope they enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it – and I hope we get to play it sometime."

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The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of Understatement (release half april; Domino/Munich)
Veel drama, romantiek, blazers, violen en gedragen zang. Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) en Miles Kane (Rascals) steken hun nek uit. Resultaat: een rockopera van het hoogste niveau. Heerlijke plaat.

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Op dinsdag 26 februari 2008 17:52 schreef tim. het volgende:

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Waar heb je die gekocht? Bestaat er trouwens ook nog een digipack cd-single van IBYLGOTD?

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Op dinsdag 26 februari 2008 18:29 schreef febster het volgende:

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Dat weet jij wel, ik zat te bedenken dat The Last Shadow Puppets dus ook een single uitbrengen en wellicht wel meerdere, wil dat zeggen dat ze ook nog 5 a 10 nummers als B kanten op de plank hebben liggen of ben ik dan te voorbarig?

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The Last Shadow Puppets: "The Age Of The Understatement"

Yesterday, I watched a DVD of “Love Story”, a documentary about Love and Arthur Lee. It’s not the most elegant piece of film-making I’ve ever seen, but the research and the storytelling of Lee, Johnny Echols, Bryan Maclaine, Jac Holzman (who should have a film devoted to him and Elektra, I think) and many others make it compelling.

One of my favourite parts sees Lee ruefully exploring the Castle, a sprawling and ornate LA mansion that Love somehow came to occupy for a while in the mid ‘60s. Needless to say, the standards of hygiene and interior design weren’t quite as high during their period of residence. Nevertheless, it’s evident that the place had an atmosphere of baroque importance; perhaps, eventually, it contributed to the way Love’s music sounded.

I mention all this because, over the past few days, I’ve been listening to the debut album by Alex Turner and Miles Kane’s new project, The Last Shadow Puppets, and there are one or two tracks on there (“Standing Next To Me”, especially) that remind me of Love; not just in the lavish orchestrations, but in a nebulous sense of grandeur.

Consequently, “The Age Of The Understatement” doesn’t superficially sound much like the Arctic Monkeys, nor – perhaps mercifully – like the little I’ve heard from Kane’s day job, The Rascals. Besides those echoes of Love, the much-vaunted references to Scott Walker (well, the first four solo albums, I should say) prove correct, though yesterday we were also talking about Barry Ryan and “The Days Of Pearly Spencer”. Owen Pallett’s fulsome string arrangements are the most obvious throwback to that era, but it’s also evident in the galloping pace – think “Jacky” - set by the drumming of producer James Ford.

That said, if you were to strip back all this musical extravagance, I suspect you’d find that the essence of Turner’s songwriting remains much the same as it always has been. I think there’s a comparison to be made between the sort of elaborate sentences he favours – not least for bandnames and album titles – and his melodic sense; the way tunes wander quixotically around, sometimes seeming to head off tangentially on a whim.

So “The Age Of The Understatement” itself flies off at a frantic, bombastic pace – very studious allusions to Morricone here, too - but there’s a definite similarity between the opening orchestral flurry and the crashing riff that begins “Brianstorm”. The breakneck clip-clop of “Only The Truth”, the languid stutter of “Chamber”; with a few tweaks, these could comfortably work as Monkeys songs. The buzzing “I Don’t Like You Anymore”, frankly, wouldn’t need much work on it at all.

Turner might be able to change the packaging, but he isn’t yet quite capable of changing the essence of his art. Only the sashaying, Bacharach-esque “The Meeting Place” really breaks the mould. Looking for genetic traces here, you could feasibly spot something of Kane’s Liverpudlian forebears The Pale Fountains in this one (Mick Head not being averse to a bit of Love himself in his time, of course).

Two points to make about all this, I suppose. One: it’s probably no bad thing that Turner’s melodic idiosyncracies survive the transition, when he’s still coming up with songs as swaggeringly excellent as “Calm Like You”. Considering the standard of so much over-reaching indie that’s aspired to precisely reconstruct those Scott albums in the past, we should be grateful. Two: I figure we shouldn’t ascribe all of this to Turner and consequently underestimate the input of Kane. There’s a distinct parallel between The Last Shadow Puppets and The Raconteurs, not least in the way Turner and Kane swap vocals and, at times, are virtually indistinguishable from one another.

If there’s one more major difference between this and the Arctic Monkeys, though, it’s that, for all its paciness and supposed poppiness, “The Age Of The Understatement” is nowhere near as immediately striking as much of those Monkeys albums. On first listen, it struck me as a meticulous, gilded object, blessed with some lovely music (the brooding orchestral coda to “Black Plant”, say), but lacking truly great songs.

Half-a-dozen listens on, though, I’m won over. These songs are baroque, bejewelled puzzles that reveal their charms slowly, a little like some of the denser stuff at the rear end of “Favourite Worst Nightmares”. It’d be easy to presume that Turner (oh, and Kane) had over-extended himself here; tried to grow up too quickly, perhaps. Surely, he couldn’t be critically involved in another set of strong songs so soon? Well, he has. A fine record.

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Op donderdag 28 februari 2008 20:18 schreef AMDB het volgende:

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Ik zag het toevallig op Graz zijn, aan de zijkant waar ze andere sites headlines bijhouden, normaal kijk ik daar nooit

Ze hebben ook best video zie ik nu voor TP...

Oke, editje...volgens mij is het niet voor TP maar voor FA...

http://www.nme.com/news/nme-awards/34755

Ik snap het niet, FA was toch met clowns en TP niet?
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The Last Shadow Puppets - Live In Brooklyn

Alex Turner & Miles Kane are in New York promoting their forthcoming debut album as The Last Shadow Puppets. A very special acoustic performance has been added to their schedule as a treat for NY area fans!

When: Tomorrow, Tuesday March 4, at approx. 10 PM. Doors @ 9:45, please try not to show up before then. A line will start outside before the doors open.
Where: Soundfix Records, 110 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY (Bedford & N. 11th) - Bedford L-train stop / Williamsburg, Brooklyn
How: Just show up, it's free. All ages, no tickets required.
Please do NOT call Sound Fix for details.

Come on down.

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Op dinsdag 4 maart 2008 11:30 schreef Leonos het volgende:
Ze stonden gister in de Metro. Ze hadden op die awards stinkbommen gegooid ofzo

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ARCTIC MONKEYS committed a highly unprofessional foul at the NME Awards – letting off evil-smelling stink bombs at the after-show party.

The quartet, who scooped three awards at the dull bash, cleared a huge area around them at the backstage bar by detonating the noxious explosives.

I was unlucky enough to have my nostrils burned by the eggy pong unleashed by the little chimps.

But the Sheffield lads’ bad behaviour didn’t end there. [..]

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Op dinsdag 4 maart 2008 11:40 schreef Leonos het volgende:
Post de rest dan ook