Arctic Monkeys #38 - We're not the jealous type...

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Op donderdag 1 april 2010 15:36 schreef maan. het volgende:
ja top 4 leukheid:

matt
alex
nick
jamie..

ohja John nog nooit een interview van gezien..

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Op donderdag 1 april 2010 01:22 schreef TC03 het volgende:
Ik bid nog steeds dat Aisu nog een keer wat gaat doen met zijn HMH '07-materiaal, want die keek ik ook bijna wekelijks.

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By Ryan Wood
GateHouse News Service
Posted Apr 01, 2010 @ 04:14 PM

When Alex Turner arrives in the U.S. for the start of a string of 12 shows in 18 days, someone should hand him and the rest of the Arctic Monkeys a map.

“We’ve never been to Kansas before,” Turner said via cell phone last week from London. “Miami, I’ve never been there. I’m excited about it. Even after this tour, there’ll be places I’ve never been to. We never did a show in Nashville, which is frustrating. One day, hopefully.”

Arctic Monkeys open their mini U.S. tour April 1 in Miami, followed by gigs in Tampa (April 2), Orlando (April 3), Athens, Ga. (April 5), Baltimore (April 7), Covington, Ky. (April 9), St. Louis (April 11), Lawrence, Ks. (April 12), Tulsa, Okla. (April 13), Phoenix (April 15), Las Vegas (April 16), and April 18 at Pioneertown Palace in Pioneertown, Calif., a stone’s throw away from Humbug producer Josh Homme’s studio. Turner talked about what it was like meeting Homme and having him on board to produce the band’s third album.

“I was just excited. The first couple times I spoke to him, it was clear we were on the same page,” Turner said. “There was a sense that it would kind of work out. There was never really any doubt. It was just, ‘get on a plane.’ We knew what we didn’t want to do. In the studio, it got to be fun. It was great.”

Following the tour, Turner said the Sheffield, U.K. band will start to focus more on its fourth studio album.

“We’re not recording (now), but we’re definitely kind of writing, and it’s going to start pretty quickly,” he said. “Any time we get, we’re f****** around with bits and bobs. We’ve got new tunes to play and getting very restless and want to move quite quickly with this one. We’ll do a couple shows with Humbug and some B-sides to finish it off, and then get into new business.”

Will the band work with Homme on the new album? Turner didn’t say yes or no, but it’s obvious the band do not have Homme in their immediate plans.

“I’m sure it’s not the last time we’ll work with him,” Turner said. “I think we’ll ride again.”

In between playing two U.S. tours and a pair of one-off gigs last weekend in London, Turner took time to find a piece of his equipment to donate to OXFAM, which worked to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake. Turner gave OXFAM one of his prized possessions, the Fender strat he played in the band’s first-ever video, “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor.” The guitar fetched roughly $7,000 in the auction.

“It was the guitar I bought when we got signed. It was the time when you go out and get yourself new gear,” Turner said. “It’s got a few bashes, a few knocks, and it’s the one I use on the first video for “Dancefloor.” I figured that one would probably generate more money. I feel it’s distinctive.”

Turner and the Monkeys make their debut in some of these towns and cities, he said fans can expect to hear a lot of songs from Humbug, and some B-sides. Possibly three new songs – “Joining the Dots,” The Afternoon’s Hat,” and “Don’t Forget Whose Legs You’re On,” which all are on the newly released single for “My Propeller.” The digital version is available, while the 10-inch vinyl version comes out April 13 on Domino Records.

The current tour is now underway, and soon the band will play places that have had some legendary performers on their stage. This includes Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Okla. (April 13). In 1978, it was one of only a small handful of venues the Sex Pistols played on their only U.S. tour. Elvis Costello, The Strokes, Bloc Party, and countless others have played Cain’s. Turner said that no matter where the band plays in the U.S., they never know what to expect from the fans or where they’ll turn up.

“I thought it was strange when you go into towns and people see you,” he said. “When you meet people in the street and seeing how they react well to the tunes in the show. They always say, ‘Why didn’t you play such and such.’ Sometimes they give you a little clap. And the talk shows over there with the applause, it’s quite strange. It’s a different kind of recognition (in England). The fans are slightly different.”

Those fans turned out in droves to see the Monkeys play Shepherd’s Bush Empire and Royal Albert Hall last weekend, and they got to see a very well-dressed Turner, who always seems to wear proper clothing while on stage, unlike another Monkey.

“He’s not the function of fashion,” Turner said of drummer Matt Helders. “I wish I could come out in joggers and a headband. He’s very much freedom on legs. But if he were with jeans, he’d be quite restrictive.”


Copyright 2010 Pembroke Mariner & Reporter. Some rights reserved

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Op donderdag 1 april 2010 23:42 schreef Merkie het volgende:
Impliceert Alex nou dat de US tour uit Humbug + B-sides bestaat?

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Op donderdag 1 april 2010 23:44 schreef Arn0 het volgende:

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Nah.. Dat ze gewoon veel Humbug materiaal zullen spelen. (wat nu al het geval is)

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The Arctic Monkeys school Miami in the best of northern Brit rock
by Arielle Castillo Thursday, Apr 1 2010

Thursday's show at the Fillmore marks the Arctic Monkeys' first performance in Miami Beach, but the Sheffield, England rockers already count a famous local resident as an unlikely fan: Diddy. About this time last year, the band was in New York, putting the finishing touches on some studio tracks with Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford. When Ford had a gig playing the second day of Ultra Music Festival, Monkeys drummer Matt Helders tagged along.

Somewhere during a debauched Winter Music Conference party at Cameo, Diddy approached Ford and Helders, professing a love for both acts. What followed was an only-in-Miami stretch of early-morning partying at the mogul's mansion, the sleep-deprived results of which can be spotted on YouTube. (Search for the clip titled "The View From Sean's House Party.")

What also resulted, apparently, was a friendship. "I think Matt kind of had a bromance with him for a while," Monkeys bassist Nick O'Malley says. "When we played in New York, he came into the crowd and tried to get to the barrier, dancing along to one of our songs while people freaked out."

Who can blame him? The Monkeys' brew is an inviting one, built on the traditional guitar muscle of the best northern English indie rock. Even the notoriously cranky Noel Gallagher, of Oasis, once favorably compared the band to his own in the pages of NME. But where Oasis and the like reveled in a sort of beer-soaked near-hooliganism, the Arctic Monkeys have always gone for a more pure, less dangerous sonic joy. It's one that's undercut by English wit and more than a hint of moodiness, though. Their breakout 2005 crossover single, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor," was a rousing indie dance favorite, but its lyrics seemed to mock the song's hipster queen as much as they praised her.

It's a light-dark duality the band has further explored on subsequent albums, most markedly on the most recent disc, last year's Humbug. "At the time, I had been listening to a lot of Pink Floyd and Nick Cave," O'Malley recounts. "But for the next one, we're talking about doing something fast all the way through. We always wanted to do that and were going to for the last one — but then we didn't want to leave the slow songs ut!"

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Op vrijdag 2 april 2010 13:27 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Opener setlist in Florida was "Fire And The Thud", ook "Joining The Dots" werd gespeeld, en "Nettles" was de laatste song voor de toegift.

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Op vrijdag 2 april 2010 13:43 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Geeft gelijk de reden aan waarom ze daar zo vaak te vinden zijn .

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Op vrijdag 2 april 2010 13:44 schreef Arn0 het volgende:

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Ja, ik weet het, maar toch.. In de allerlaatste gig kan er volgens mij minder dan 500 man en het is nog niet uitverkocht.

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Op vrijdag 2 april 2010 13:27 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Opener setlist in Florida was "Fire And The Thud", ook "Joining The Dots" werd gespeeld, en "Nettles" was de laatste song voor de toegift.

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Op vrijdag 2 april 2010 16:56 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:
Briljante song, afgelopen weekend tot mijn grote plezier 2 keer live gehoord.

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Op vrijdag 2 april 2010 16:53 schreef hallo-daar het volgende:

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En.....geen "Red Right Hand"

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Op vrijdag 2 april 2010 17:03 schreef hallo-daar het volgende:

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Maar ook geen Jeweller's Hands en Dangerous Animals

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Op vrijdag 2 april 2010 16:59 schreef hallo-daar het volgende:

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Pardon, mening bijgesteld?

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Op vrijdag 2 april 2010 17:05 schreef Aisumasen het volgende:

Nee, puur cynisme. Draak van een liedje. Al moet ik zeggen dat de versies op beide avonden door de capriolen van Alex nog best vermakelijk waren. (Verslag coming up!)

Over Jamie: Wat roken jullie ? Jamie is ONMISBAAR. Zijn houding op het podium, zijn zwijgen in vroegere interviews, zijn verlegenheid, niet te vergeten zijn kenmerkende sound.. In het eerste interview met NME uit mid-2005 staat ook zoiets als dat hij de band heeft gemaakt tot wat het was, door zijn inbreng en zijn muzieksmaak. Dus sorry, Nick... Je bent het enige vervangbare lid, niet eens een originele Arctic Monkey in de eerste plaats .

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Op vrijdag 2 april 2010 19:19 schreef CatsInTheWell het volgende:
Vetste nummer van de debuutplaat blijft trouwens Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But.... Wát een bazennummer is dat.