Arctic Monkeys #19 - Gaan als een Go Kart!

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[b]"We did a bit [writing and demo-ing] in January," Turner told BBC 6Music. "We had tunes that we'd already been playing on tour so we recorded them. That’s six [songs].

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Op zondag 8 maart 2009 14:38 schreef Kijana het volgende:
Ik vind Crying Lightning niet veel aan, beetje een zeurderig nummer. Dangerous Animals gaat wel, ook al heb ik die nog niet in goede kwaliteit gehoord.
Go-kart is wel ok, titel had beter gekund lol.
Pretty Visitors heb ik nog geen mening over, moet nog goede kwaliteit van dat nummer vinden.

Misschien is het maar beter dat ze nog wat langer doorgaan met opnemen van nieuwe nummers.
Of ben ik nu te kritisch lol?

Nouja beter maken ze een album met dezelfde sound als Whatever People en hun oude b-kantjes.

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The View From...The Gutter

"We're Gonna Sco-o-ore Tonight"

It's an indisputable fact that bowling never looked cooler than it did in Grease 2. Kingpin tried it, so did The Big Lebowski. None of them ever came close to matching the style of Michelle Pfeiffer in her Ray Bans, maybe it was the ridiculousness of the wind-milling arms before the release of the ball, or the not so subtle double entendre of "scoring" that appealed to my adolescent sense of humour. It's something that has stayed with me to this day and I can still remember most of the words to the song. When I was informed by Matt that "tonight we bowl”, understandably, I was most excited.

I had no idea how competitive they all were, everyone was desperate to win and mind games came into play. Strike was matched with strike and at one point both lanes we had booked had three-way ties. In the end it was very close, however there could only be one winner. I don't like to brag, but needless to say it will probably be the first and last time I'm invited to play. Below is a sweet Bowleroid photo (pun courtesy of James O'Hara) that I took of the bowling team.



We finished off the night round at Al's with a bottle of whisky and a couple of wasted hours playing the pun game. For those not aware of this late night distraction, it is a word association game and the rules are simple.

Rule one - Take one subject - i.e. The Sea.
Rule two - Combine rule one with a quote/band/artist etc. to form a pun.

E.g.
Hake That?
Sand-y Shore?
Half Manatee Half Biscuit?

Matt killed the game with a pun, which nobody could top.

Buoyancy Knowles.

With the first week of rehearsals over and some brand spanking new songs worked out, I rendezvoused with the band at their rehearsal space. I was treated to a run through of the fruits of their recent labour, a real mixed bag of up tempo bangers and slower melodic tunes. Already the album is shaping up to be another stunning piece of work.

Unfortunately my last video blog, The View From The Orange Stage..., was deemed in violation of the Youtube terms of use due to the split second of nudity. We have replaced version 1 with version 2, which substitutes the offending clip with a censored version. It's a shame because we lost the stats for over 20,000 views and a couple of hundred comments and ratings. Feel free to watch again and repost your comments, it will make me feel better if nothing else.

Good News. Next Monday is a date for your diary, we will be bringing you a video View from... , narrated by Matt from the rehearsal rooms. There will be the usual hi jinx from the band and a healthy dose of Mattire (Matt's Satire). Perhaps I should have put a consumer health warning in the pun game rules, that playing may impede your ability to converse without punning?

Kali Nichta
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Op donderdag 12 maart 2009 18:18 schreef Leonos het volgende:
''We have replaced version 1 with version 2, which substitutes the offending clip with a censored version. It's a shame because we lost the stats for over 20,000 views and a couple of hundred comments and ratings. Feel free to watch again and repost your comments, it will make me feel better if nothing else.''
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The View From... The Orange Stage...

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Op donderdag 12 maart 2009 18:18 schreef Leonos het volgende:
''We have replaced version 1 with version 2, which substitutes the offending clip with a censored version. It's a shame because we lost the stats for over 20,000 views and a couple of hundred comments and ratings. Feel free to watch again and repost your comments, it will make me feel better if nothing else.''
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The View From... The Orange Stage...

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Op donderdag 12 maart 2009 18:18 schreef Leonos het volgende:
''We have replaced version 1 with version 2, which substitutes the offending clip with a censored version. It's a shame because we lost the stats for over 20,000 views and a couple of hundred comments and ratings. Feel free to watch again and repost your comments, it will make me feel better if nothing else.''
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Arctic Monkeys Announce Festival Performance In Serbia

Arctic Monkeys are pleased to announce that they will be performing at Exit Festival 2009 in Novi Sad, Serbia on Thursday 9th July.

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Op donderdag 12 maart 2009 18:43 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:

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Dat dus . Gewoon hetzelfde oude filmpje, maar nu zonder het vreselijke "offensive" materiaal.

Oh, en dat ging natuurlijk niet over de bad-scène, die er ook nog gewoon in zit.

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The View From... Rehearsals

Like a well known seasonal generic chocolate egg slogan, how do you eat yours? It's a very tenuous link, but I was just curious to see if you carefully unwraps these blogs, taking the time to read the words before savouring the video. Or do you dive straight in and greedily gorge on the video, paying attention to the wrapper later? On this occasion I would recommend watching the video now. The rest of the View will make more sense if you do.


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What did you all make of Lady Ga Ga's Poker Face cover or the short clip from one of the new songs? It's quite an epic one and will sound absolutely amazing live. For knowledge boffins amongst you, the ivories in the clip were being tinkled by Mr. John Ashton of The Last Shadow Puppets fame, and long standing front of house guru for the Monkeys over the past four years.

The rehearsal space has a good vibe, plus there is a great little coffee shop up the road which does a mean Tuscan bean soup. This particular rehearsal studio seems to be a popular place to be if you're in a band. It's a friendly musical community, where bands busily beaver away and pop in to each others studios for a chat.

With songs finely honed and flight cases packed, team Monkey moves camp to New York to record the last bunch of tracks for the 3rd album. Excited? I am. I'll be chatting to the band via I-Chat when they are out in New York over the next few weeks to find out how things are going, and report back to you all. Hopefully as the album goes into the mixing and mastering stages we'll get some juicy titbits for you.

Anyways, I have to go now. I have to climb over the fence and recover those crocs that Matt binned. Turns out he had Cookie's pair on and he went spare when he found out.

Bye for now.
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Arctic Monkeys Announce Austrian Show

Arctic Monkeys are pleased to announce that they will be performing at the Vienna Arena in Vienna, Austria on Sunday 5th July 2009.

Tickets are available from here from Saturday 21st March 2009.