:laugh3: That's halarious! :P

Awwwh, AM tomorrow.

I hope this thread will be filled with lots of pics of Marisa, Libby, Garrett and I meeting them by Thursday.:nice:

 

*libbie*.lol

But yea im getting there between 430-530. Oh it gonna be such a good show, im excited:). we will get pics and of course post them:D

*cough* and take pics of nick *cough*

people easily forget him :cry:

Monkeys come in from the cold with new album

 

A little over two years ago, Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin was asked on the BBC’s The Steve Lamacq Show what band he was the most excited for in the coming months. “Well, that is a bit obvious, isn’t it? I mean, I think everybody is excited for the Arctic Monkeys,” Martin replied.

 

When the lead singer of the biggest British band decides to drum up four guys from Sheffield instead of his own band, it's usually a sign that this new band might be worth a listen.

 

The sophomore release from northern English working-class kids the Arctic Monkeys, Favourite Worst Nightmare is not Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not part deaux, in fact, it's much better than that. From the first track, “Brainstorm,” the Monkeys mix reggae, funk and post-punk into a loud thrash that can say more in three chords about post-modern malaise than an entire library.

 

BBC’s Jo Whiley said on a recent show after playing the new song, “Teddy Picker,” that the new album is, “loud, harsh and fast.” Lead singer Alex Turner, whose scratchy voice croons along with the feedback from his guitar, told BBC Radio 6 the new songs are, “very different from last time,” saying that some songs were, “a bit full-onča bit like “From the Ritz to t’she Rubble,” “The View from the Afternoon,” that sort of thing.”

 

The band making it to their second album at all is an accomplishment. After bassist Andy Nicholson quit prior to their summer 2006 U.S. tour, the band persevered with stand-in bassist Nick O’Malley. But could they recapture the magic from their first recording sessions?

 

According to New Musical Express, early in February 2007 the band performed a secret show at a lead mill in their hometown of Sheffield. The results took the whole crowd’s breath away. The show debuted six of the songs on the new album and New Musical Express wrote that it was genius.

 

Heavy on the bass beat, songs like, “This House is a Circus” and “If You Were There, Beware” show that O’Malley has not become just filler in the band’s line-up but a contributing member with a mind of his own. Turner’s breakneck speed with lyrics still shows up throughout the album, but not to the extent it did on the debut. In this work the Monkeys are mourning lost nights of debauchery, death and broken hearted lovers. The album acts as a potent warning to the club life and nights of excess that the first album portrayed so well in all its brutal honesty.

 

If one thing could be said about the Arctic Monkeys' new release, it is that it’s honest. No dream romances or wrist-slitting melancholy, just loud, harsh music about blue collar English kids growing up in the ruins of an industrial city and trying to make it out alive.

 

Essential Tracks:

-505

-Brainstorm

-Balaclava

-D is for Dangerous

-Only One Who Knows

 

http://www.hamline.edu/oracle/archives/2007/05/08/5190.html

Concert review: Minneapolis debut is short and sweet for Arctic Monkeys

 

Arctic Monkeys lead singer Alex Turner, shot last month at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

 

CONCERT REVIEW: The British band lived up to the hype with a breathless, breakneck 75-minute performance.

 

So that's what the hype was all about ...

 

A year after shooting to the top of the U.K. charts with their debut album, the Arctic Monkeys proved during a frantically paced sold-out show Monday night at First Avenue that English fans weren't off their rocker.

 

At least for now, these Monkeys are a live band first and foremost, something their fellow Brits apparently knew well. Even more than on their two records -- each crammed with choppy, punky, hyperstrung rock and subtle hints of ska and hip-hop -- the barely legal Sheffield lads didn't let up or lose their way during their Twin Cities debut. Save for the intermittent beer guzzle, they were 100 percent invested for 75 straight minutes.

 

With "Brianstorm," the opener of their new sophomore CD "Favourite Worst Nightmare," the band quickly showed off its knack for stopping on the dime and making speedy, cocksure time changes.

 

"Tight" took on a new meaning as they then tore through four straight tracks off their first album, including "Still Take You Home" and "Dancing Shoes," both of which found fans singing along verbatim.

 

"Relax! Roll a spliff," frontman Alex Turner said between songs, as the crowd at times acted as hyper as the music.

 

Looking like an unlikely cross between one of the Small Faces and Lulu, the waify Turner showed bright-eyed enthusiasm throughout, commenting on everything from the First Ave staff carrying beer through the crowd to the smelly towels that he claimed are an American trademark. He also repeatedly pointed to drummer Matt Helders, who was celebrating his 21st birthday Monday.

 

Helders donned a Twins batting helmet given to him for the closer, "A Certain Romance," although it might have come in handier a few songs earlier during the pandemonium that greeted "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor." Other highlights included the sing-songy new gem "D Is for Dangerous" and intense, intertwined versions of "Balaclava" and "Fake Tales of San Francisco."

 

Not surprisingly, the Monkeys didn't return for an encore. The 21 songs on the set list comprised nearly everything the band has recorded. And anyway, the many attendees who celebrated their 21st birthdays years ago were already spent by show's end -- spent and fully sold.

 

http://www.startribune.com/457/story/1170331.html

:dance:

 

I'm going home from school right now, to go home and get ready, then to the AM show I go...:dance:

Oh that was fucking good gig. Report in tomorrow! g'night.

EEEEPS.. effing goooood show! Okay uhmm first act was blah, nothing special. But then arctic monkeys came on, they are effing amazing live!. Played a pretty good set too:). Afterwards I ment marissa and mandy:D(they didnt try to kill me;).lol So I stood up on the belcony, and it was a really good view and i got some good pics- sure mandy and marissa got some cool ones as well. *Pics were hard to get cuz of the lighting*. blah

 

And.. I also meant alex;didnt say much but he was nice, he seemed a bit tired.. they all did, dont blame them though.

 

Woohoo.

The concert was alright.

Fun to dance to.

It was hot, Marisa and I were soooooaked.

 

Jamie looked reallll good.

To bad hes the only one we didn't meet.:(

omg... Nick :dead:

omg... Nick :dead:

 

The piccie I got with him turned out realllly cute.

I will post later.:D

 

edit: He was so shy, it was really cute. And he smelled like sweat and beer.:laugh4:

why aren't people liking be your own pet? wtf?

Have you ever seen Be Your Own Pet live?

 

roffle.

Up-ing my few pics now. Mandy, did G send you the one with Alex yet?

 

 

I'd probably have enjoyed Be Your Own Pet more if I had checked them out before. But didn't have time. They had confidence and good stage banter though. The drummer was super adorable and chatted for a long while with fans after.

 

 

Edit: k, here is the CPing buddies! and then a JAck Daniels cup that Matt, Alex, and Nick were kind enough to sign.

 

I was battered. I can't handle being in the front at their show! I had to bow out only 4 songs in! :lol:

 

 

 

I tried to ask each one about Coachella, specifically how they survived the heat and what bands they had a chance to see and what bands were the best. Nick said he liked The Black Keys and that yes it was very hot. I don't think Matt understood what I was asking but he said they were only there for 2 days and had gigs on the 3rd day or something. And I asked where they were going tomorrow, Toronto of course. And luckily they would have a day off too. I asked if maybe and sight seeing? He said yeah sure maybe! haha. And Alex, said the heat wasn't too bad but they had a great time. I asked what band he enjoyed the most and he enthusiatically answered "Interpol, yeah!" haha. I'm not sure exactly how you pronounce the band's name but I always thought it was "Inter-pole". But he said it "Inter-pool." Anyways it was cute. I also asked if he ran into Paris Hilton there because she was supposedly wreaking havoc. He laughed and said "She was there? I didn't know" Then we shook hands and then a quick pic (not on my camera)

 

They were very friendly but also very drunk. Aw bless their little hearts. I hope they enjoy the rest of the tour. The concert was crazy though. The crowd was loving every bit and they sounded great! A lot of older fans too. I was totally surprised. Glad I got to see them live though. :)

Garrett and I are in a pickle right now, on a count of him being a dick when we left last nite, because we werer lost in the ghetto, so I'm afraid to call him and I can't get on myspace, so I don't know right now..:laugh4:

 

I will PM them to you as soon as I get them though!:D

no problem! yay that was fun. And Grace I hope you like the pic that Mandy took of Nick. He looked really good!

I think Garretts bitter that my pic with Nick turned out, because he didn't put it on..:laugh4:

 

He did put this up though:

:laugh4:

 

I was crouching down so I would look shorter than Alex, but I think he may have been the same height as me..hes pretty short.:laugh4:

 

I think G was a little starstruck, he never looks like so shocked in piccies.:laugh4:

Bless him

Ohhh yeah, Marisa, didnt you hear alex when you asked him about Paris and he said EW?

 

 

:laugh4:

Have you ever seen Be Your Own Pet live?

 

roffle.

 

yes?

Bleh. Edit me out! haha. And you can see me talking with Matt in the background of the one with G and Alex.

 

 

Be Your Own Pet had some die hard fans there, Kelli, so don't worry if Mandy and Libbie weren't into them. Food Fight was an interesting song. If that was what it was called...lol.

 

Yeah Alex is way small. Never realized!

Doo-Wop Legend Snubs Arctic Monkeys

 

Over the last two weeks, more than 28,000 people have watched the YouTube video of Ledo Muchowski as he shouts down Parisian fans of Brit-poppers the Arctic Monkeys. Willing to at least bury the hatchet halfway, the doo-wop singer, better known as "the Mooch," has invited the Monkeys to his Brooklyn home for an after-party following their March 15 show at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

 

"I told the Monkeys, 'Hey, if you're gonna come here, I don't fucking like it. But at least see Brooklyn through the eyes of somebody that knows what it's about'," says the Mooch. Adding that his wife could make some food, he speculated that it would be a "good time."

 

According to Muchowski, who prefers to avoid the Internet, he contacted the Monkeys' management by an indirect route, asking "one of the kids in the neighborhood to make an e-mail to one of those Brian Epstein-type guys." Muchowski seems to have as little regard for the management as for the folks they manage, adding, "They don't know their fucking ass from third base."

 

Muchowski makes the reasons behind his low opinion of the Arctic Monkeys clear, both in the video and in statement. In the series of videos, he dons a sign saying "Give Mooch A Chance" and berates fans waiting outside the venue. "It's very simple, really. I'm a doo-wopper, okay? I don't like the fucking Beatles. I actually don't like any British music." When asked why he's singled out the Arctic Monkeys instead of, for instance, the UK's Coldplay, Muchowski responded, "Who?"

 

It's not simply that Muchowski doesn't know about bands like Coldplay, though. It's that he doesn't care. Studding his speech with references to "real music," Muchowski is a staunch traditionalist, valuing vinyl well above MP3s and finding the Monkeys' contemporary take on dance-friendly pop music to be "lyrically vacant" and "very hard on [the] ears." As his voice softened slightly, he adds, "It's something that I don't think the children of America should be exposed to."

 

That being said, Muchowski wants a chance for his singing group—the Brooklyn Hummingbirds—to open for the band. Asked about this seeming contradiction, he responded, "Because I want their fans to... Listen, I've seen these people. They're like lemmings. Remind me of Jonestown. I just want to expose them to real music."

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HjG2xUXwEQ

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMJQlDZe6KE

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9puHNlwZ_3A

 

http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=36047312

that guy sounds like an attention whore who needs to get over himself.

He must have spent a fortune on travel, and living in Paris aint cheap!

yes?

 

 

Eh, they just seemed a little bit pretentious for my liking.

And Marisa, I though she called the song Fruit Fly...lmao..:laugh4: