Posted July 19, 200718 yr Arctic Monkeys have revealed details of a US tour, which will see the band play New York's Central Park Summerstage. Fresh from their second Mercury Music Prize nomination, the band have announced just seven initial dates in the US and Canada, where they will play the Virgin Festival in Toronto and the Osheaga Festival in Montreal. The dates so far are: New York, NY Central Park Summerstage (September 5) Toronto, ON Virgin Festival (8) Montreal, QC Osheaga Festival (9) Austin, TX Austin City Limits (15) Dallas, TX The Palladium Ballroom (16) New Orleans, LA House of Blues (18) Seattle, WA WaMu Theater (29) Does this mean that the Arctics are possibly using this as a warm up for some UK gigs in the near future late this year/early next year? :o
July 19, 200718 yr Author They better come to the UK :angry: I'm not sure whether they will now actually. :( I think these LCCG gigs they're doing are the only gigs they're gonna do in the UK now as they don't to do Arena tours yet. I don't think they'll come to the UK again now until they start all the tours for the next album.
July 20, 200718 yr Author They're doing more dates than first thought now: New York, NY Central Park Summerstage (September 5) Providence, RI Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel (6) Toronto, ON - Canada Virgin Festival (8) Montreal, QC - Canada Osheaga Fest (9) Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall (11) Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom (12) Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre (13) Austin, TX Austin City Limits Festival (15) Dallas, TX Palladium Ballroom (16) Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theater w/Queens of the Stone Age (17) New Orleans, LA House of Blues (18) Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre (21) Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre (22) Del Mar, CA San Diego Street Scene (23) Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium (25) San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (27) Eugene, OR McDonald Theater (28) Seattle, WA WAMU Theater (29) Vancouver, BC - Canada PNE Forum (30) Source: NME.com
July 20, 200718 yr Author they better visit every big city in europe...greece athens/thessaloniki sometime? If they go visit Greece then I imagine they'd just play some of the smaller venues, like in Athens or somewhere. :P
August 29, 200717 yr Author Arctic Monkeys are being supported on their forthcoming US tour by American band Voxtrot! :D http://www.voxtrot.net/page1.htm I've never heard of them personally, but if the Arctics like them then they should be decent. ^_^
September 20, 200717 yr Author mszm-SNJs0A CpZmY9EMYRg Apparently the new song there is called "The Nettles", although it's unsure whether it's an actual new track or just an intro into "This House Is A Circus". Thoughts?
September 24, 200717 yr Author Interview with Alex: Pop Quiz: Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys Aidin Vaziri Sunday, September 23, 2007 We caught up with Arctic Monkeys lead singer Alex Turner just a few hours after his band lost out on this year's Mercury Prize in an upset victory for the glow-stick-waving rave revivalists the Klaxons. Despite winning the award last year for "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" - the fastest-selling British premiere album of all time - Turner didn't seem too upset. After all, his band had just headlined the Glastonbury Festival and has graduated to arena status on its current U.S. tour, and its knotty second album, "Favourite Worst Nightmare," is doing just fine, thank you. Besides, the Monkeys probably would have lost to Amy Winehouse anyway. The Arctic Monkeys play Thursday at the Warfield in San Francisco. Q: How does it feel to lose the Mercury Prize to a novelty band? A: A novelty band? Do you not like the Klaxons? Q: No. I mean, yes. It depends. How well do you know them? A: We have the same producer. We know them a bit. Q: What I actually meant to say is they're No. 1. But don't you think you should have won? A: Yeah, I think. I'm really proud of this album more than I am of our first one in terms of the sound of it and everything. It's just one of them things, isn't it? To win it two years in a row, it would be greedy. Q: You actually like this album better than the first one? A: I think so. The last one was confined, in a way. I wanted to do an album that was about that time - I wanted to go from an afternoon to morning and just everything that happens. This one is more zoomed out. It wasn't as meticulously organized. But now I'm really excited about these new Monkeys tunes we've been doing during sound checks. We've got this new tune called "Nettle," which is kind of where it's at. Q: It's called "Metal"? Are you going a bit Def Leppard on us? A: Yeah, like, "Cherry Pie." No, it's called "Nettle," as in nettle bush. Q: Oh, good. Because you can never tell with this band, after you did that cover of Shirley Bassey's "Diamonds Are Forever." A: We've also done that Barbara Lewis song "Baby I'm Yours." I kind of like doing things like that, where people get a bit freaked out. "Diamonds Are Forever" was just somebody else's job I took too far. Q: How do you rate Tom Jones' version of your song "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"? A: Everybody I talked to wasn't too into it. My granddad wasn't too into it. Q: You guys are pretty famous for your no-nonsense live shows. You don't talk, you don't do encores, you open with obscure B sides, you don't have any lasers, you don't even ask people to wave their arms in the air like they just don't care. A: The talk comes out some days, and then it doesn't. For a few months, I couldn't even speak onstage. I couldn't think of anything to say. I think I heard back previous live performances and was crippled by what I said. If I repeat what I said before, I think I would die a little bit. Q: What was the best rock show you ever saw? A: I'm not sure. Q: You can say your own if you want. A: Funny enough, there was one in France where we could see ourselves on the screens at the back of the room as we were playing. That was just weird. E-mail Aidin Vaziri at avaziri@sfchronicle.com. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c...3/PK08S4LQ5.DTL
September 28, 200717 yr Author The Arctic Monkeys are a thriving species Though many of their contemporaries have failed, the British band seems fit to survive. By Richard Cromelin Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 27, 2007 THE Arctic Monkeys seem to be doing it right. That's not always the most exciting way to do it, but after all the colorful flameouts produced by England in recent years, a bit of old-fashioned, no-nonsense focus on the basics might be in order. Neither feuds nor scandals, flirtations with musical trends nor displays of attitude have so far disrupted the Monkeys' world, which is marked instead by a rigorous establishing of a foundation that might someday anchor one of the most substantial bodies of work in British rock. That approach has yielded their strikingly ambitious and heartfelt debut album, "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not," and this year's less accessible but emotionally complex follow-up, "Favourite Worst Nightmare." And while that sounds like the story of countless virtuous cult bands, these four lads from Sheffield have managed to strike a broader nerve, becoming instant stars in England and a slower but still rising presence in the U.S. At the Hollywood Palladium on Tuesday, they showed one reason for that stature: They've bulked up into an imposing live band in the 18 months since their first U.S. show. Even more than their impressive set at Coachella in April, the 90-minute concert displayed a fiercely focused attack. The Monkeys are an old-school guitar band, forging their flurries from the tightly interlocked patterns of singer Alex Turner's rhythm guitar and Jamie Cook's lead, which are pounded into dynamic shape by bassist Nick O'Malley and drummer Matt Helders. It formed a terse, bracingly precise setting for Turner's sharp, steely voice, which still has a youthful plaintiveness as well as the wary skepticism that colors the newer material. He's fully engaged with every narrative, while his phrasing turns his wordy, potentially mouth-clogging lines into something close to rock poetry. The Arctic Monkeys' hurdles remain the challenges of adding some personality to this experience without compromising it and tapping the drama in their music more effectively. To do that, they have to be more willing to vary their dynamics and trust the music's emotion, as they did briefly toward the end when Turner sang the free-tempo opening of "When the Sun Goes Down" alone, with his guitar chords loosely following his voice. Suddenly freed from the Monkeys' taut musical mazes, he found an ache and a vulnerability, and the crowd's immediate response to this revelation was a reminder that in this relationship, it's the heart that matters most.
September 30, 200717 yr Author Interview with Nick: Nick O'Malley is the lucky guy in Arctic Monkeys. Lucky because he joined the band, which plays tonight at the Paramount, after it had become an international sensation. He replaced original bassist Andy Nicholson, who quit in the spring of 2006 because he didn't like touring, preferring to stay home in High Green, the small town near Sheffield, England, when the band is from. In a phone interview earlier this week from the road, O'Malley seemed to fit right in with the Monkeys' darkly funny, somewhat cynical view of life. Q: Where are you today? A: In some kind of a crystal meth region populated by a lot of drug addicts, I think in San Francisco. Q: You joined the Arctic Monkeys when it was already a fast-moving train. What was that like? A: Much like your analogy, really, like trying to jump on a fast-moving train. A bit dangerous but if you get on, you're in for a good ride. And not in baggage, more like first class. Q: Your first American gig with the Monkeys was at Sasquatch! in May of last year. What did you think of the Gorge Amphitheatre? A: Oh, yeah, Sasquatch! I really liked it. I was a little bit scared because there were a lot of people, and I only played for about 11 people before. I really enjoyed it. But, yeah, it was a bit scary. Q: You've played for lots of big audiences since then, haven't you? A: Yeah, definitely, like the Leeds and Reading Festivals and Glastonbury, and Coachella. Those are some really good festivals we've done. Q: So what's life like as a rock star? A: Um, it's great. Yeah. It's definitely an extremely enjoyable thing — probably one of the best jobs there is, really. Q: Have you bought your parents a big house, like rock stars do when they get rich? A: No, no. And I'm not rich. I mean, we're not rich as U2 or anything like that. Q: Has your love life improved? A: Oh my! Love life? Ah, well, it's probably gotten worse. I've been divorced three times, so, ah ... No. Q: What was the first rock 'n' roll show you saw? A: We all went to see the Vines in Manchester when we were about 16, 17. We got there really early because we were really excited. And that was my first one. We got right up front at the barrier and everything. And right from then we thought, wouldn't it be great to be able to do that as a job? Me, Alex [Turner, Arctic Monkeys lead singer/songwriter/guitarist] and Matt [Helders, drummer] went. We all grew up in the same village and lived really close to each other. Q: Had you been outside of England much before joining Arctic Monkeys? A: Not much, really, I've just been on like a couple of holidays like to Spain and stuff. I'd never before been anywhere else like Australia or Japan or America [where he has toured with the Monkeys]. After this [American tour], we're going to South America. We're playing in Brazil and Argentina, which are places I've always wanted to see. Q: You guys in the band have been friends since childhood, but traveling together and being together most of the time, do you ever get on each other's nerves? A: No, not really. We all kind of know how to stay out of each other's way. We never wind each other up. We've never had a single argument. I've never seen any of them three have an argument with each other. We've got a pretty lucky kind of thing going where we're all on a similar kind of wavelength.
October 24, 200717 yr Author Alex Turner speaks about the USA touring rumour mill Arctic Monkeys' frontman Alex Turner has revealed that the hype around the band was recently so pronounced in the US that North American fans believed that Oasis had supported them in the UK. The rumours appeared after the Monkeys supported the Mancunian legends in Toronto last year. "When we were in America recently there were loads of rumours that they had supported us in Manchester," he said. "Everyone asked us, 'it must have been ace having Oasis support you'". Turner went on to reveal what it felt like playing a support slot for the Gallagher brothers' band. "I remember being scared and excited," he explained. "They were really nice. We were playing 'Leave Before The Lights Go Out' and Liam [Gallagher] was like, 'tune!' Overall, they are miles bigger than us." Source: NME.com
October 24, 200717 yr Alex Turner speaks about the USA touring rumour mill Arctic Monkeys' frontman Alex Turner has revealed that the hype around the band was recently so pronounced in the US that North American fans believed that Oasis had supported them in the UK. The rumours appeared after the Monkeys supported the Mancunian legends in Toronto last year. "When we were in America recently there were loads of rumours that they had supported us in Manchester," he said. "Everyone asked us, 'it must have been ace having Oasis support you'". Turner went on to reveal what it felt like playing a support slot for the Gallagher brothers' band. "I remember being scared and excited," he explained. "They were really nice. We were playing 'Leave Before The Lights Go Out' and Liam [Gallagher] was like, 'tune!' Overall, they are miles bigger than us." Source: NME.com That would be.... Amazing :wub: :lol:
October 25, 200717 yr Author That would be.... Amazing :wub: :lol: Wouldn't happen in a million years though! :lol:
October 25, 200717 yr Author Are they trying to break the U.S. or something? They're very popular in the US, not popular popular but they've a real big fanbase in the US. They'll never really do well in the charts or anything, but their first album sold quite a fair amount in the US, and while although the 2nd album's not done so well sales wise it hit a higher peak i'm sure. I *think* the album went Top30 which is good for an indie band!
October 25, 200717 yr They're very popular in the US, not popular popular but they've a real big fanbase in the US. They'll never really do well in the charts or anything, but their first album sold quite a fair amount in the US, and while although the 2nd album's not done so well sales wise it hit a higher peak i'm sure. I *think* the album went Top30 which is good for an indie band! The album made No 7 in the USA and left the chart with about 100,000 copies sold :cheer:
October 25, 200717 yr Author The album made No 7 in the USA and left the chart with about 100,000 copies sold :cheer: #7! Even better than I thought it did! I remember it did very well. but it fell out of the charts extremely quickly. :(
October 25, 200717 yr #7! Even better than I thought it did! I remember it did very well. but it fell out of the charts extremely quickly. :( About 7 weeks :nocheer:
