many different hair eras - pick your favourite and defend it with your life
a lyrical genius but unable to string a normal sentence together in everyday conversation (that rock ‘n’ roll, eh?)
used to go out with Alexa Chung, they were beautiful and looked like a renaissance painting when they kissed and everyone cried when they broke up
dances like a drunk uncle at a family barbeque but no one will stop him?
someone please
save him from his own hubris
Matt Helders
drummer, aka the agile beast, aka matthew j helders iii
strong and friendly
FALSETTO
a beautiful and funny man
is engaged to the girl (Breana) in the suck it and see video, a fact thay makes me die of of laughter everytime i think about it. recently announced that soon they shall be parents
Kayne once said he was almost as good as Phil Collins, Matt probably cried when he heard
Jamie Cook
guitarist
he has the strongest accent of them all it’s glorious
“”jameh””
hates twinnings tea
married to the wonderful katie, also soon to be a father
Has a beautiful baby boy named Hearst, the first tru Dad of the band
only joined after the first album was out for four months, replacing andy nicholson, learned the entire repetoire in two days
they’ve all been friends since they were tiny so there’s never any drama or fights or anything, it’s all good vibes and happy times? a good bunch of people
alas al has now lost the quiff and is now growing some sort of gel monstrosity on his scalp, also he refuses to shave, maybe his new girlfriend taylor can help
Other Projects
Miles Kane + The Last Shadow Puppets
on the FWN tour the monkeys were supported by a band called The Rascals, fronted by one Mr. Miles Kane, a beautiful and talented turtle from liverpool
Miles and Alex immediatley fell in love became best friends and started writing songs together
in 2008, in between FWN and Humbug, they released an album called The Age Of The Understatementunder the name of The Last Shadow Puppets
wikipedia describes it as ‘baroque’ and i really cant fault that
its big and loud and glourious and beautiful and it sounds like a western or a thriller or some other massive vista spanning soundtrack
its honestly the best thing either of them have ever done
Al and Mi keep doing things that make us think there’ll be another one, in the last few weeks the rumour mill has been especially busy
Also you should definitley listen to Miles’ own albums, Colour of the Trap and Don’t Forget Who You Are, as Miles is beautiful and stylish and one of my favourite people and an astoundingly talented musician and both Noel and Paul Weller guest star on his albums
oh yeah and alex bought him and miles matching turtlenecks for christmas
Richard Ayoade is an old friend of the band and asked Al to do the soundtrack to his film, Submarine, so Alex did and its beautiful
it sounds like stars and dreams and midnight and fireworks
i cry almost every single time i listen to it
More Fun Arctic Monkeys Facts
the NME is obsessed with them they had an entire issue dedicated to AM when it came out
oh yeah the band also has like a secret “”alter ego”” called The Death Ramps which is like? a fake biker gang that alex made up so they could release stuff pseudonymously. also miles kane is a member and alex made them all matching death ramps rings and he and miles never take theirs off
this is a very useful masterpost and has more accurate info
and this cover compilation is also very nice indeed
jamie cook used to work as a tiler even when he was still in the band
oh yeah and alex’s short story A Choice of Three which is really good
al contibuted to the Mini Mansions song Vertigo and it’s awful but his verse is weirdly mesmerising. but the rest of it is really bad, als part is from 1:29 to 2:15 so u can ignore the rest
honestly one of the coolest and my most favourite bands please enjoy your journey
This makes me happy and i want to print it and hand it off at random people
this post saved my life (should also be updated w EYCTE n shit)
i’m still laughing at the fact he has “john lennon as a tv chef” saved in his notes like what was he thinking about??? what made him be like “this is important i need to write this down”
Alex Turner: Self confessed romantic fool, best lyricist of this time, metaphor after metaphor, takes 5 minutes to answer a question because he rethinks everything
Alex Turner’s iPhone notes: it’s my headache
alejandroheinrich asked: Just imagine the wonders the 4 monks may be working on right now. I mean, last time we gave them a breather, Alex came up with the Submarine OST. This is to say yes, I agree that this might not seem like the most exciting time to hang around, but just hold on... The next big thing is just around the corner. And what's even more promising is that we don't even know which corner that is.
