It seems the only tickets left are general admission and VIP, so if you're in the queue waiting, go straight for these tickets instead. The track, which featured on their 2006 debut album ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not’, was ranked Number 7 on NME's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was nominated for multiple awards.

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After friends began forming bands and playing live, [37] Turner, Helders, and Nicholson decided to start Arctic Monkeys in mid-2002. Cook was initially taken-aback by the change in direction but was "very, very excited by what he'd come up with. Turner's early songs chronicled teenage nightlife in England, [240] and, according to Armitage, were "of the kitchen-sink, social-realism variety. When it comes to Arctic Monkeys’ most recent album, the influences from literature once more came to the fore in a more direct sense.Over the last decade, Alex Turner has proven himself to be one of Britain’s finest lyrical wordsmiths. Hotels in the area are also booking up quickly, so if you're looking to make a weekend out of it we'd suggest you book now. After the addition of Jamie, the Arctic Monkeys played their first official gig in 2003 and soon began recording demo tracks. Keith Waterhouse’s novel There Is A Happy Land is another book that depicts life on a north country council estate and it offers up the same circumstance-free sense of exultation that Turner’s early lyrics did when turning the streets into a playground of frolics and fuck-about fun. On 2009’s Humbug, co-produced by Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, Turner escaped into a rock archetype.

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Two of the songs had already been written; Turner wrote the rest after watching dailies from the film set.Other album tracks include: 'She's Thunderstorms', 'The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala', 'Library Pictures', 'All My Own Stunts', 'Reckless Serenade', 'Piledriver Waltz', 'Love Is a Laserquest' and 'That's Where You're Wrong'. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian found it "quietly impressive" that the band chose to release the "thrilling, smug, clever and oddly cold album" rather than more crowd-pleasing fare. You’re rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock / And those other girls are just post-mix lemonade,” Turner sings winningly on a song that, equally winningly, matches the kind of melody you would find on a late-60s easy-listening pop hit to a mass of trebly, echoing guitars. He is a fan of the works of Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder among others.

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Perhaps stung by a reception for 'Humbug' that didn't quite match the enthusiasm that greeted their first two albums, 'Suck It And See' found Arctic Monkeys adopting the back-to-basics approach of their debut, 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'. They received their first mention in a national newspaper in April, with a Daily Star reporter describing them as "the most exciting band to emerge this year".They travelled to Joshua Tree, California to work with producer Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age; it was the band's first experience of working in a studio for an extended period of time. Turner wrote Arctic Monkeys' fourth album, Suck It and See, in New York [133] and met up with his bandmates and James Ford for recording sessions in Los Angeles. Alex Turner’s lyrics understandably attract the most attention, but Matt Helders’ taut, explosively powerful drumming is Arctic Monkeys’ secret weapon.