Arctic Monkeys #24 - The most frustrating type

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 14:06 schreef Xrenity het volgende:

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Op cd-wow is ie 10, 12 en 15 euro
http://www.cdwow.nl/search?query=humbug&category=all

Geen idee wat het verschil moet zijn. Bij de Free Record Shop mag je 20 euro neerleggen... Maarja ik moet nog cadeaubonnen opmaken

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 15:07 schreef Griebus het volgende:

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Ligt het aan mij of staat er bij de diverse cd's niet wat het verschil is?

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 15:07 schreef Griebus het volgende:

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Ligt het aan mij of staat er bij de diverse cd's niet wat het verschil is?

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 14:22 schreef RoW_0 het volgende:
Lol. ik youtube een beetje rond en ik hoor dingen als..

R.I.P. Arctic Monkeys ( 2006-2009 )

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josh homme killed the arctic monkeys that we all loved and cherished. like how bob rock murdered Metallica. SHIT PRODUCERS MAN

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 17:00 schreef belsen het volgende:

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Ach, dit is voor hun de tweede keer geen brave herhalingsoefening en dat is ze te prijzen. Dat zal ze altijd fans kosten, maar voor mij siert dat de band.

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 14:30 schreef Xrenity het volgende:
Joshe Homme is awesome.

Fuck the haters

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 19:36 schreef Merkie het volgende:
Ligt het aan mij of zingt Alex minder in z'n Sheffieldse accent op Humbug?

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 19:58 schreef Merkie het volgende:

Arctic Monkeys Pretty Visitors (pt.1) Live @ Highline Ballroom NYC 8/3/09

Arctic Monkeys Pretty Visitors (pt.2) Live @ Highline Ballroom NYC 8/3/09

Pretty Visitors lijkt me echt geweldig live . Overigens lijken ze er wel weer zin in te hebben, gelukkig maar .

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 20:06 schreef Irien het volgende:

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Ik hoor het ook vond het op Brianstorm FWN ook al minder. Ergens jammer, maar ook volwassen.

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 20:07 schreef Haunter het volgende:

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Bewijst ook maar eens wat voor beest Matt Helders achter z'n drumstel is... damn!

En een groot contrast is dat Amerikaanse publiek... wat een suf en tam publiek is dat ook

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 17:00 schreef belsen het volgende:

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Ach, dit is voor hun de tweede keer geen brave herhalingsoefening en dat is ze te prijzen. Dat zal ze altijd fans kosten, maar voor mij siert dat de band.

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 20:11 schreef Merkie het volgende:
Ach, de meeste mensen kennen de nieuwe nummers nog niet.

Trouwens ook tof dat ze Da Frame 2R nog spelen, dat nummer is echt enorm ondergewaardeerd in mijn ogen. Staat in mijn top 5 AM-nummertjes .

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Op dinsdag 4 augustus 2009 22:28 schreef JeroenV het volgende:
Wat voor nummer is Red Right Hand? Staat die op het album?

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Radio 1 Live Performance

Arctic Monkeys are pleased to announce that they will be performing live on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show on Monday 17th August 2009. The band shall be playing tracks from their new album 'Humbug' between 7-9pm.

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Vinyl & MP3 Free Coupons

Arctic Monkeys are pleased to announce that vinyl copies of new album 'Humbug' shall come with a coupon to download all tracks as MP3 for free.

The vinyl shall come with a coupon insert with a code for you to redeem the tracks through the Domino Digital Store. As previously reported, vinyl copies of 'Crying Lightning' shall also come with a redeemable coupon for MP3s of the tracks.

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Trading the Overt Snarls for a More Brooding Menace
The band Arctic Monkeys performing at the Highline Ballroom on Monday evening, in their first New York show in two years.



Alex Turner kept asking if everybody was having a good time at the Highline Ballroom on Monday night, and this was slightly suspect behavior. Granted, there was cause for conviviality: he and his band, Arctic Monkeys, were headlining their first New York gig in two years and plugging their coming third album. But Mr. Turner has always been an ambivalent front man, given to a guardedness that borders on detachment. You don’t trust a guy like that with gracious overtures, not even in the midst of a terrific show.

Fortunately, Mr. Turner wasn’t asking for anyone’s trust. The songs he writes for Arctic Monkeys are often awash in wariness and self-reproach, along with insolence and bitter judgment. That much has been constant since 2005, when the band, from Sheffield, England, set off an avalanche of praise with its boisterous and cocksure debut, “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” (Domino).

But certain other things have changed, as this show emphatically showed. The new album, “Humbug” (Domino), due out on Aug. 25, introduces a darker, murkier, weightier Arctic Monkeys, a band moving toward the overlapping realms of maturity and grandiosity. Produced by Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age) and James Ford (of Simian Mobile Disco), it supplants the old spring-loaded snarl with a more brooding strain of aggression. There are twangy guitars and organ drones, more space and more suspense.

If that sounds like a mixed blessing, it wasn’t one at the Highline, where new and old songs alike were feverishly dispatched. “Pretty Visitors,” from “Humbug,” opened the show with a jackhammer blast of guitars and toms — Matt Helders, the drummer, worked hard and fast from the start — and then pulled back to mysterious effect, shifting meters as well as gears.

“Crying Lightning” rode a sludgy bass riff, played by Nick O’Malley; “Potion Approaching” swiveled between a spindly punk riff and a triplet tattoo made nasty with distortion. Of the new tunes only “Cornerstone,” a rueful ballad, fell flat.

Mr. Turner and his mates have claimed Black Sabbath as a recent inspiration, but a truer touchstone might be Nick Cave, whose “Red Right Hand” was the show’s lone cover, tackled with full conviction and proper menace. Mr. Cave’s abstract thrust as a lyricist might account for Mr. Turner’s choices elsewhere on “Humbug.” Like this chorus: “All the pretty visitors/Came and waved their arms, and cast/The shadow of a snake pit on the wall.”

It’s a far cry from “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor,” the band’s first breakout single, which was met here, predictably, with an ecstatic singalong.

Thankfully, some old habits die hard: between inquiries about the crowd’s enjoyment, Mr. Turner teased those seated in an upper balcony. (“Have you tried the carrot cake?”) And during the encore he ended “Secret Door,” another new tune, with this couplet: “Fools on parade/Conduct a singalong.”

Maybe he’s a fool in that image, but what would that make his followers?

The New York Times

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Arctic Monkeys Get Diddy Dancing in New York

Back in March, Diddy announced via Twitter that he loved the Arctic Monkeys so much that he was planning on joining them. On Monday night at New York's Highline Ballroom, he didn't quite make it on stage but seemed content enough dancing in the crowd as the Sheffield four-piece played an intimate show in front of 700 fans. Clearly thrilled at the band's performance, the Bad Boy CEO grooved through their hit single 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor.' And did he.

Fresh from their slot at All Points West, the Arctic Monkeys spent much of their set trying out new material from their forthcoming album 'Humbug.' Although the album, produced in part by Queens of the Stone Age singer Josh Homme, signals a turn into darker, moodier realms, the band turned in a surprisingly muscular performance, airing a total of six fresh cuts including 'My Propeller,' lead single 'Crying Lightning' and a frighteningly heavy version of the Nick Cave's 'Red Right Hand.'

Despite the unfamiliarity of much of the material, the band's rabid following, Diddy included, were euphoric throughout. The biggest cheers of the night, however, were reserved for classics like 'View From the Afternoon' and 'Leave Before the Lights Come On.' The band continues its trek with a Wednesday gig in Boston, and two in Chicago, including Lollapalooza.

Spinner Music

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P Diddy moshes his way through Arctic Monkeys' intimate New York gig
Sheffield band play tiny show in Alex Turner's adopted hometown

P. Diddy took his love for Arctic Monkeys to a new level as he moshed with the fans at the band's intimate gig at the Highline Ballroom in New York last night (August 4).

The rap mogul, who is friends with drummer Matt Helders, hung out with the band in their dressing room prior to their set, before taking his seat on the balcony just after openers Modey Lemon played.

However midway through the main set, Diddy made his way downstairs, followed closely by his security guard, and wove his way through the crowd of fans, some of whom had been in line since early afternoon for the show.

The rapper then remained in the moshpit for 'Cornerstone' - which the band played live for the first time on Saturday (August 1) at All Points West in New Jersey - and 'The View From The Afternoon', before pumping the air with his fists when the band launched into 2005 UK Number One single 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'.

Meanwhile Arctic Monkeys previewed a selection of tracks from their new album 'Humbug' at the gig, with frontman Alex Turner stressing to the packed crowd, that included Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and Chris Tomson, that the record is called "'Humbug' with an 'H'".

NME