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Mrs*WonKa
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Oggetto del messaggio:  Inviato: 31/05/2006, 20:47 |
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Iscritto il: 02/05/2006, 18:28
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Da un giornale di San Diego...
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=4408
AN UNGENTLEMANLY AFFAIR
Arctic Monkeys just want to stop talking and play
by Jed Gottlieb
Recently, neuroscientists made a startling discovery about the human brain. It appears the frontal lobe, which is partly responsible for impulse control, judgment and spontaneity, doesn’t fully develop until the mid-20s. Some have used these findings to account for the heightened impulsivity and risk-taking that often accompany young adulthood.
So it’s not Arctic Monkeys’ fault.
For instance, if lead Monkey Alex Turner were to point at an audience member and bitch, “That man just yawned!” during a performance on Saturday Night Live, it wouldn’t be his fault, but the fault of his anemic frontal lobe. Same goes if guitarist Jamie Cook were to end the song by tossing a beautiful, expensive telecaster guitar into an amp and storm off stage with a sneer and a laugh.
When you’re a band of 20-year-olds, there’s a shit load you can (and will need to) blame on immature lobes. This is just one of the reasons Cook rashly says the band’s done with TV. The mega-hyped British rock band is already tired of their every move being recorded for posterity.
“I don’t think we’ll ever do [Saturday Night Live] again,” says Cook. “We don’t do TV in England anymore because it’s not fun playing stuff like that. It feels very unnatural. So I don’t think we’ll ever do any TV again.”
Cook’s dislike of the media isn’t limited to TV. He says he “fucking hates [print] news” and that he doesn’t watch or read anything about the band. That makes it nearly impossible for him to pick up a paper or magazine. Across the world, the group has been called the best British band since Coldplay, since Oasis or since The Beatles, depending on who’s making the claim. The cheering is so loud, it’s easy to forget that a year ago the band were just wannabe punk kids living with their parents.
“Actually, I’m still living with my mum and dad in Shetfield,” explains Cook. “I haven’t had the time to move out yet.” 
Cook’s been busy since last May when Arctic Monkeys’ released their debut EP, Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys. In the year that followed, the band’s first two singles went to No. 1 in the U.K. and their debut LP, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, became the fastest-selling debut album in the country’s history.
As quickly as they appeared, the band has retreated from the press and now rarely gives interviews because, as Cook says, “You don’t need to be in everyone’s faces if your music is good enough.”
When asked about almost anything, Cook responds with tight, short, single sentences. It’s as if he’s being interviewed by his parents.
“Why’d you start playing?”
“I got a guitar and decided and I need to learn it.”
“Why’d you choose to play a telecaster?”
“I don’t have a fucking clue.”
“And how’d the band begin?”
“We started doing a few covers, then a few originals, then we started playing a few gigs.”
The one thing Cook will talk about with youthful exuberance is the new album, which the band plans to record in August. Already with two EPs and an LP recorded, Arctic Monkeys are taking an Elvis Costello approach to their career: tour constantly, write quickly, record quickly and tour some more.
“I couldn’t see us being like Coldplay,” says Cook. “It’d just be fucking boring, wouldn’t it? You tour your album for three years and play the same fucking gig night after night. It must really be depressing. Some people might enjoy doing that, but we couldn’t. It would probably end us.”
After all, rock ’n’ roll isn’t about impulse control. It’s about inarticulate rock stars calling out bored fans and ruining perfectly good guitars.
Arctic Monkeys play with We Are Scientists at Soma on June 2. Doors open at 7 p.m. Sold out.
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The funk might fracture your nose!!!! 
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scleraz
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Oggetto del messaggio: Inviato: 01/06/2006, 0:48 |
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| have you been drinking, son |
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Iscritto il: 07/05/2006, 11:02
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Località: Milano/Pordenone
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grande cookie....certo che questo ragazzo non li soffre proprio i media
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Oggetto del messaggio: Inviato: 01/06/2006, 15:14 |
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| i wish you'd stop ignoring me |
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Iscritto il: 14/05/2006, 22:34
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Località: venezia
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It's not you it's them that are wrong...
E soprattutto MEMBRO dei TURNERISTI ANOMINI - entra anche tu in questo fantastico mondo...
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Violet
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Oggetto del messaggio: Inviato: 01/06/2006, 16:27 |
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Iscritto il: 14/05/2006, 21:03
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Violet&Minnie INC
CUGIO PAPA
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Mrs*WonKa
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Oggetto del messaggio: Inviato: 01/06/2006, 16:42 |
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Iscritto il: 02/05/2006, 18:28
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Località: ...Sardinia...
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...London is burning and I,I live by the river...
The funk might fracture your nose!!!!
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Violet
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Oggetto del messaggio: Inviato: 01/06/2006, 16:52 |
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Iscritto il: 14/05/2006, 21:03
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Violet&Minnie INC
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ArcticCricy
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Oggetto del messaggio: Inviato: 02/06/2006, 21:09 |
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Iscritto il: 16/05/2006, 13:35
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Località: Verona, ma l'accento è mezzo bolognese...
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KLAXONS "FUN" CLUB
lo sai che l'amore è una patologia
saprò come estirpartela
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Arctic Rocker
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Oggetto del messaggio: Inviato: 02/06/2006, 21:10 |
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Iscritto il: 14/05/2006, 21:49
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Località: Dai meandri dell'inferno...(Rimini,Italy)
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KLAXONS "FUN" CLUB ArcticRocker & ArctcCricy & Davide are the presidents of this Club!
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scleraz
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Oggetto del messaggio: Inviato: 02/06/2006, 22:11 |
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Iscritto il: 07/05/2006, 11:02
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Località: Milano/Pordenone
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recensione concerto di San Francisco
Friday, June 2, 2006 (SF Chronicle)
We're the young generation, and we've got something to say Aidin Vaziri, Chronicle Pop Music Critic
It's easy to feel leery about the rise of the Arctic Monkeys. A little more than a year ago, the teenage members of the Sheffield, England, band were just shaggy-haired runts, handing out free CD-Rs of their music at local live shows and playing guitars they had received from their parents the previous Christmas.
Then, in what seems like a blink, they signed to the same label as Franz Ferdinand, became a huge Internet phenomenon and, in January, released "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not," the fastest selling debut in U.K. chart history. Just last week the band's bassist, Andy Nicholson, announced he would be sitting out the current North American tour because of exhaustion.
Who can blame him? The band's fame has come so quickly that it's already provided cause for parody on "Saturday Night Live." And it doesn't look like things will be letting up any time soon. When the Arctic Monkeys came to San Francisco in March, they packed the Great American Music Hall. On Tuesday, the band sold out the substantially larger Warfield in minutes, and left plenty of business for the scalpers out front working Market Street. At this rate, the band might as well set aside the Arena in Oakland for Thanksgiving weekend.
The only challenge now is getting people to look past the hype and start paying attention to the music -- a speedy, snarling throwback to classic British punk bands like the Clash and the Jam via Oasis and the Libertines. The band's approach at the Warfield was to face the problem head-on -- primarily by not facing the audience at all.
The Monkeys appeared as four slouching figures in a puff of purple smoke, tentatively clutching their instruments and keeping their eyes firmly focused on their shoelaces. The first few songs passed in a blur of raw, ragged energy, each one seemingly tossed off. The tempo never shifted. The fog never lifted. Heavy-lidded singer Alex Turner barely said a word, intelligible or otherwise.
It wasn't until the band reached its whacked-out first single, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor," well past the halfway mark of its hourlong set, that the walls started to shake violently. From then on, the tuneless metallic clamor of the first bit of the show gave way to the sly R&B groove of "Leaving Before the Lights Come On" (courtesy of replacement bass player Nick O'Malley, who was, ironically, playing with a broken hand), the gnawing punk melody of "When the Sun Goes Down," and the bitter, seesawing chorus of club hit, "Fake Tales of San Francisco."
There was, of course, plenty of room for improvement. Once loosened up, Turner provided clumsy commentary between tunes: "I'd like to dedicate this next song to the couple who are having sex with their clothes on in the back." Then after a momentary hush, "I wish I had never said anything." Still it was better than the lengthy breaks where the band members simply stood around twiddling with their guitar straps.
"It's been a pleasure and all that stuff," the singer said before the last song. "You ought to look after yourselves. Be careful."
It was advice he could use himself. The ska-inflected "A Certain Romance"
turned out to be the money-shot moment of the evening, a simple song with an irresistible baggy beat and insistent bass line that showed the Arctic Monkeys were actually capable of living up to enormous expectations and not just being another pop culture punch line. But how many more of those do they have in them? It might be saying something that they left the stage without an encore.
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ArcticCricy
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Oggetto del messaggio: Inviato: 02/06/2006, 22:42 |
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Iscritto il: 16/05/2006, 13:35
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Località: Verona, ma l'accento è mezzo bolognese...
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sembra dolce dolce cookie ma....
Guitarist Jamie Cook suggested that their new album will be recorded in August 2006, adding "I couldn’t see us being like Coldplay... You tour your album for three years and play the same fucking gig night after night... Some people might enjoy doing that, but we couldn’t." [18]
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lo sai che l'amore è una patologia
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ArcticCricy
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Oggetto del messaggio: Inviato: 02/06/2006, 22:43 |
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Iscritto il: 16/05/2006, 13:35
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In an article in The Guardian on 24 April 2006, it was suggested that Dan Treacy of Television Personalities is in some way behind the Arctic Monkeys [23], based on a perceived similarity between their lyrical style and that of Dan Treacy, and the fact that the lead singer of Arctic Monkeys is mysteriously not credited with their songwriting.
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ArcticCricy
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Oggetto del messaggio: Inviato: 02/06/2006, 22:48 |
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Iscritto il: 16/05/2006, 13:35
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Località: Verona, ma l'accento è mezzo bolognese...
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è un po' vecchiotta non so se magari è già stata postata ma cmq...
“This time last year, we were playing to next to nobody. I mean that quite literally - less than ten people.” Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys tick all the most-hyped boxes. After one limited 7”, they’re selling out venues up and down the country, with crowds singing the words to each and every (unreleased) track. Ebay tall tales – the barometer of zeitgeist cool – abound, with the band’s demo cds going for £200.
Chatty but knackered or diffident to the point of inaudibility, singer Alex Turner comments with typical understatement, “Yeah, we’ve had a good year,” his broken voice dropping an octave mid-sentence. All the band members are 19 or 20 years old.
Although Alex was initially reluctant to be the singer - “it seemed a bit soft” - the lyrics are acerbic and funny. Fake Tales of San Francisco has a pop at identikit pretenders (“You're not from New York City, you're from Rotherham”), but he’s quick to dispute regionalist clichés. “People say it’s a snapshot of Sheffield. Is it f**k - it’s an observation of people. It doesn’t matter where you’re from or if you’re in a band or not; there’s always knob-heads. There’s a certain element of sneering but it’s always laughing or celebrating it.”
“There used to be a line in Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts, ‘At least he ain’t got a Nova or a Burberry hat.’ When we were in year nine, there’d be lads that had left school and they’d pinch all the girls from our year. This was in 1999 when the Nova was the car of the moment. Before the term chav came out."
Later that evening his opening comment, “What’s Coventry got to show us, eh? Owt?” provokes crowd-surfing mayhem within seconds of the start of their first track – and forthcoming single - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor. Shoes are thrown onstage and helpfully thrown back so you can walk home. And when they come back one time too many, they are pitched up onto the lighting rig to raucous cheering.
Says bassist Andy Nicholson, “After you see it every night, you do get used to it, which is not to take away from it, cos it’s still f**king exciting. But it takes a lot to shock you. Some girl got on her boyfriend’s shoulders for Mardy Bum. I thought that was a very Robbie Williams moment. Thought we were going to play Angels or something.”
“There were times we couldn’t finish A Certain Romance for weeks cos everyone was on stage. We played in Nottingham, and our mate was crowdsurfing on people on stage. He just came flying over the monitor. ‘I broke me back yeah but it were right good!’”
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