Arctic Monkeys

[pyny]

^Really?
Happy birthday Alex

ps. I really love those nme pics. Especially the Jamie one

 

[tifa]

Nearly every boy I saw in London had Alexs hairstyle.

every indie lad looks like alex because it's such a common look to have.

not that there's owt wrong with it, i think he looks grand

 

[kanita]

^Really?
Happy birthday Alex

ps. I really love those nme pics. Especially the Jamie one

Jamie looks like a little child in my opinion, but since you like him, here you go :

arcticmonkeys.com

By the way, this might have become a fangirl thread, but some music info: the 2nd album is out this March.
http://imageshack.us/

 

[ShoeGal4Eva]

happy birthday gorgeous !!!!

 

[pyny]

Jamie looks like a little child in my opinion, but since you like him, here you go :


arcticmonkeys.com

By the way, this might have become a fangirl thread, but some music info: the 2nd album is out this March.

Thank you very much! (He's so lovely..)

Can't wait for the new record!

 

[realitysucks]

could possible be the worst band ever live.

 

[kanita]

could possible be the worst band ever live.

Where did you see them?, I saw them and I was blown away, their timing was flawless.

 

[realitysucks]

Where did you see them?, I saw them and I was blown away, their timing was flawless.

i saw them 5 minutes at pukkelpop in belgia, enough for me.

 

[kanita]

i saw them 5 minutes at pukkelpop in belgia, enough for me.

They played PukkelPop in Belgium 2 days before I saw them at Lowlands festival here in Holland. I've heard they were great at PukkelPop, but hey, can't argue about taste. But to judge a gig in 5 minutes? Well I hope you enjoyed the other bands

 

[kanita]

aaaw...

myspace

 

[realitysucks]

They played PukkelPop in Belgium 2 days before I saw them at Lowlands festival here in Holland. I've heard they were great at PukkelPop, but hey, can't argue about taste. But to judge a gig in 5 minutes? Well I hope you enjoyed the other bands

haha, yeah those 5 minutes felt like 50. i bet they were good compared to themself, but seriously, they just stand still and only do what they are suppose to do, no show at all. i enjoy their music, but i would never pay to see them live again. :]]] and thanks i enjoyed the other bands big time, couldnt been better except from lowlands stealing kooks, razorlight and bloc party.

 

[tifa]

i don't see how artic monkeys aren't exciting and kooks and razorlight are :/

 

[kanita]

i don't see how artic monkeys aren't exciting and kooks and razorlight are :/

walked past Kooks and Razorlight on Lowlands..

 

[kanita]

haha, yeah those 5 minutes felt like 50. i bet they were good compared to themself, but seriously, they just stand still and only do what they are suppose to do, no show at all. i enjoy their music, but i would never pay to see them live again. :]]] and thanks i enjoyed the other bands big time, couldnt been better except from lowlands stealing kooks, razorlight and bloc party.

They are known for looking 'glum' on stage, not they don't do the big show, and all they crazyness on stage. When I saw them I was a bit surprised at that, they seemd a bit bored. And there were 20000 people going absolutely crazy for them.

Looking back on it, it was good, I don't like all the drama on stage, and all they yeah!'s and come on!'s

But then again, tastes differ.

 

[tifa]

walked past Kooks and Razorlight on Lowlands..

you made the right choice

both bands are intolerable

 

[city girl]

i love the kooks..naive, eddie's gun and sofa song
razorlight have a few good songs except for that song 'america' *vomits*
i love artic monkeys the most though..very talented
at the moment i can't stop listening to 'leave before the lights come on' great video clip too!

 

[ShoeGal4Eva]

i cant wait 4 new cd nd want to see them tour again.i saw them live twice nd they were amazing,i preferred the subtety they have onstage

 

[boho_babe]

at the moment i can't stop listening to 'leave before the lights come on' great video clip too!

Definately one of my fav's too along with A Certain Romance..

 

[kanita]

Some info about the new album.

Jamie describted the new album as faster wilder and darker
not depressed dark but powerfull and firm dark
not prodigy dark
but dark like deep out of them, turner said

"We've tried to experiment - that's a bit of a dangerous word, but we've tried to push on with that," singer Alex Turner told NME.

"We'd be in soundchecks and it would be, 'F*cking hell, what's that (sound) about?' So we'd record it on a phone. We ended up with breaks almost. I've always been into beats, we were into that before we were into The Strokes."

The Sheffield lads have been recording the follow-up to the massive 'Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not' in London as opposed to their home town and say the change of scenery has also had an impact on their dancier new sound.

"For the first album we locked ourselves away in the middle of nowhere, whereas this time we've been out in the Smoke, going out and stuff. I think that's reflected in the songs a little bit," Turner said.

As for themes on the new tunes, Turner added, "We still do a lot of the same things as we used to do: hanging out or whatever and we're still involved with girls and stuff. But I wouldn't want to write about the same things again."

No band has cold-cocked the world recently the way Britain’s Arctic Monkeys did with their debut, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. And though the band is currently hibernating in a London studio, they let only the Smoking Section into their basement lair, where they’re happily slapping out new cuts like “D Is for Dangerous” and “Fluorescent Adolescent.” (As far as an album title goes, drummer Matt Helder reports that, sadly, they’ve lost faith in calling it Lesbian Wednesdays.) Some claim the studio is haunted. “It’s said that a young girl, ‘Elsie,’ haunts the chamber, and unexplained faint whispers have appeared on recordings in the past,” says Alex Turner, who recorded many of his vocals in there. So when the record drops in April, listen for phantom voices and expect more brilliant, kick-*** rock. “There’s also a bit of organ on there,” says Turner, “but nothing to worry about.”

"We've nearly finished. We've just been up to Liverpool to finish it off. We've been getting more help from our producers, Mike Crossey and James Ford from Simian Mobile Disco who we'd worked with before on B-sides."

"It's definitely different - a step on, I guess. We're all better at playing us instruments. It's as simple as that really. It's a bit louder and a bit faster in places but we've still got the slow bits as well."
​

Details from Arctic Monkeys' forthcoming album have emerged, including six track titles, and descriptions of songs.

The album, set to be released in the first quarter of 2007, will be the second album from Arctic Monkeys and tracks include 'D Is For Danger', 'This House Is A Circus', 'The Bakery Song', 'Plastic Tramp', 'Balaclava' and a track which is so far untitled and is not likely to make the final LP but may appear as a b-side.

Bassist Nick O'Malley described the track 'This House Is A Circus' as a "banger", while frontman and singer Alex Turner said:

"There's something about it. Maybe it's just new, but it's just exciting. It's got some good rhymes in. "This house is a circus... berserk as f*ck." I suppose it's a place you keep going back to - it could be an actual physical building, I suppose, or a headspace you go into."​

Also speaking about other tracks, Turner described 'D Is For Danger' as a "short and groovy number" and 'Balaclava' as a depiction of a "radical boy-girl scenario".

Can't wait!

 

[boho_babe]

^
Thanks for the info!