Source: NME.com

 

Arctic Monkeys have re-united with former bassist Andy Nicholson at Carling Weekend: Leeds today (August 27).

 

The Sheffield four-piece met up with their original bassist backstage, despite his recent sacking from the band.

 

Drummer Matt Helders chatted with his fellow founding member plus a group of friends in the backstage bar as Arctic Monkeys took in the atmosphere ahead of their main stage appearence this evening.

 

Later on he met with singer Alex Turner and in a nice twist he was seen shaking hands and chatting with new bassist Nick O'Malley (pictured).

 

As previously reported on NME.COM, Nicholson left the band after he announced that he didn't want to play on this year's US tour and was replaced by Nick O'Malley.

 

His absence was blamed on "fatigue" at the time but Turner later explained: "We sorta found ourselves in a situation where we wanted to move forward.

 

"It weren't like us wanting to carry on like this as punishment for him wanting to opt out."

 

Guitarist Jamie Cooke added: "Everyone might say we're w****rs and we $h!t on him, but they don't know. We know, Andy knows and that's all that really matters."

 

Nicely put ^_^

That is nicely put. ^_^ People might call them t**** for doing what they did but at the end of the day they did what they had to do. -_-

Yep -_- They did what was best for the band and I personally respect them for having the courage to do that.

Me too. ^_^ a lot of other bands would have probably split up over something like this but the Arctics had the courage to let Andy go and then face the music.