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LINK REMOVED Be honest, would you have known it was them? :o Bloody amazing!!

Emailed the beeb a few days ago to ask that question (plus I asked them to remind me again who Edith Bowman's boyfriend is as she has picked Editors as her 3 favourite Festival sets!! Embarrassing, really). Just got a reply: Dear Bellboys Thank you for your e-mail to BBC Information. I understand that you feel more footage should be available for the Arctic Monkeys on the T in the Park website. Choosing which bands to cover is frequently very difficult. Editorial staff always have more news footage than can be fitted into the space available. Their choice has to be selective and no matter how carefully such decisions are made, they are always aware that some people may disagree with them. Nevertheless, please be assured that your comments have been made available, through our daily logs to the relevant online departments, along with senior BBC management. Your feedback is more than welcome and will help shape future coverage decisions. I hope that you will continue to use the BBC website and may I thank you, once again, for taking the time to contact BBC Scotland with your views. Regards Amy Bennet BBC Information ___________________________________________ http://www.bbc.co.uk/ - World Wide Wonderland So replied thus: Hello Amy, Thanks for your reply; much appreciated. However, you failed to answer my 'Who is Edith Bowman's boyfriend?' question. :-) I think the real answer may also lie in their refusal to appear on Top of the Pops when they had the chance. Who knows, they may just have saved it from extinction. :-) Kind regards Bellboys

Call the emergency services!! :lol: http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d94/Bellboysy/baratssuchastrongboy.jpg

Personally thought they rocked the house. And apparently The Strokes were cacking themselves watching them, knowing they would have to follow them on-stage. The lads looked completely in control in front of 70,000 fans!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/player/bb_rm...&nbram=1&nbwm=1

You are absolutely right, of course, you really do know what you are talking about. To the bands you've listed who've imploded on losing a founding-member(s), add The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Manic Street Preachers (you've actually mentioned their main man WITHOUT going on to say they achieved massive success AFTER he went AWOL) :lol: . Just because it's happened to some bands, doesn't neceassarily mean it's going to happen to ALL bands.

Genuinely have no idea, as the thread in which Andy's brother posted in was quickly deleted so I'm only going on heresay. A poster on DIS would appear to have seen it, though. http://www.drownedinsound.com/content/view/932451

I'm not saying Cookie is the sharpest tool in the box, but fact is he says things like this because he genuinely doesn't give a f***, which I think is pretty funny some times. Anyone who's seen his performance whilst being interviewed by that Dutch TV reporter in Amsterdam will realise that Cookie's lack of tact makes him a comic genius. :P http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/magazines/n...2&news=26343648

Don't wish to appear insensitive or rude, but that's utter tosh. Andy is a great bass player and a founder member of the band. And the lads go back a long way. And may I state I am upset he's left (I'd be even more upset if he was actually pushed like some have been hinting, including, allegedly, Andy's brother on another forum). But, fact is, from a musical point of view this impacts very little on the band. Love him or loathe him, Alex is the real musical beacon in this band, you only have to check out the writing credits for just about ALL the songs. And it's not as if they are drafting in some Californian session musicisn to take his place, O'Malley is ALSO a long-standing friend of the band and indeed also lives in High Green. Whilst sad, this news is not the end for the Monkeys' creativity and brilliance as a band. And no amount of doom mongerers will change that fact...

[flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-DeRi2Hd5c.swf Video Embedded - Grandwicky

Actually, they have made a quality pop album IMHO.....and even more surprising bearing in my mind they are clearly muppets.

Taken by a young lady who frequents the official forum. She's in no way a professional but my god these pics are just brilliant! Apparently the Sasquatch Festival was the first time the lads have played an outdoor gig. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v477/nan...keys/?start=all

Dodgems roadie and friend also! I actually saw 'the beast' in Chapeltown Asda's car park on Saturday with a couple of his mates. Needless to say, I resisted the temptation to take him to task over the incident :lol: (although he isn't quite as scry looking in the flesh :dance: ) Edit: Rooney, agreed about the guy in the middle's resemblance to the dwarf from Green Day. That's O'Malley, btw!

Wayhay...who says the Yanks aren't into bopping to the monkeys? :dance: [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2xrvpynnfM.swf Video Embedded - Grandwicky

Correct! It was the 'bear' on the left of the photo in my sig :lol:

Wanna see a pic of the animal that did it?? Edit: link won't work :wacko:

Excellent! Streamed here: http://www.mtv2.com/#discover_download (click on artists, then Monkeys, then scroll down to No Buses (Live). Or, if you want to save it (well worth it ): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VY2LBJZC Enjoy!

Tell the radio station they are talking doodah. O'Malley injured himself (broke his arm) a week or so before the Monkeys asked him to help out. He originally turned them down thinking he would struggle but later decided to give it a go. He's now playing with the arm (the one he plucks with!) heavily strapped. He was apparently thrown over a neighbour's hedge by the Dodgems roadie in a spot of high jinks (I couldn't confirm alcohol was involved!!).

Probably the definitive guide: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A769250

I have it on (fairly) good authority that it sold more than the combined total of both the previous number 1 Monkeys singles combined in its first week. Which would put the figure at over 75,000, I believe....

Woahhh! Video recording (not much at the moment but will be added to over the next few days) of the gig here: http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2006...arctic_m_1.html Peaches Geldof and Samantha Morton in attendance??

...to bed in the new bassist. Top secret gig at The Old Blue Last Pub, with 120 pople watching! NME would appear to have been 'in' on it: http://www.nme.com/news/arctic-monkeys/23164

Interesting..... http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=17369 Arctic Monkeys' Debut Film Annouced Directed by their best mate.... The Arctic Monkeys’ debut feature film has been announced at the Cannes Film Festival. Peter Carlton, head of FilmFour Lab, announced at the film festival yesterday the band will be making a feature directed by their close friend and Reverend And The Makers frontman Jon McClure. He says the film will be, “a kind of music documentary, with lots of fable and fiction and music."