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The brilliance of I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor may lie in the disparity between the tone of the lyrics – wryly detached, even as they’re ogling a girl at a local indie club – and the tone of the music, which sounds like said club night at its frenzied peak. 10. Star Treatment (2018) That’s not a skirt, girl, that’s a sawn-off shotgun /
And I can only hope you’ve got it aimed at me” In the summer of 2003, Turner played seven gigs in York and Liverpool as a rhythm guitarist for the funk band Judan Suki, after meeting the lead singer Jon McClure on a bus. [47] [48] That August, while recording a demo with Judan Suki at Sheffield's 2fly Studios, Turner asked Alan Smyth if he would produce an Arctic Monkeys demo. Smyth obliged and "thought they definitely had something special going on. I told Alex off for singing in an American voice at that first session." [49] An introduction by Smyth led to the band acquiring a management team, Geoff Barradale and Ian McAndrew. [50] They paid for Smyth and Arctic Monkeys to record numerous three-song demos in 2003 and 2004. [51] Turner was quiet and observant during studio sessions, remembered Smyth: "Whenever anyone popped in the studio, he would sit and listen to them before he would say anything." [49] At their rehearsal room in Yellow Arch Studios, Arctic Monkeys developed a reputation as particularly hard workers; the owner lent the band touring equipment while the owner's wife helped Turner with his singing. [52] Barradale drove the band around venues in Scotland, the Midlands, and the north of England to establish their reputation as a live band. [22] The band handed out free copies of the demo CDs after each show [53] [54] and fans began sharing the unofficial Beneath the Boardwalk demo compilation online. [55] After finishing college in mid-2004, Turner took a year out to focus on the band [34] and deferred vague plans to attend university in Manchester. [10] [56] He began working part-time as a bartender at the Sheffield music venue The Boardwalk. There, he met well-known figures including musician Richard Hawley and poet John Cooper Clarke. [57] [58] By the end of 2004, Arctic Monkeys' audiences were beginning to sing along with their songs [59] and the demo of " I Bet You Look Good on The Dancefloor" was played on BBC Radio 1 by Zane Lowe. [60] 2005–2007: Rise to fame [ edit ] Turner performing in Newcastle Academy, 2006 Savage, Mark (29 June 2013). "Arctic Monkeys headline Glastonbury". BBC News . Retrieved 5 August 2018. Didn’t you see she were gorgeous, she was beyond belief / But this lad at the side drinking his Smirnoff ice / Came and paid for her Tropical Reef”

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Cubarrubia, R.J. (4 October 2013). "Josh Homme Joins Arctic Monkeys Onstage". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 11 August 2018. Turner is not all the way out of his head just yet. He sings much of The Car in a falsetto that trapezes between Sly Stone and David Byrne. The anxious melodies strike a delicate balance with the sumptuous strings. “You don’t want it to get gooey,” he reasons. “But it’s nice to get to the perimeter of that. There may have been discussions about where that line is, and how many times you can get close to it.” Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner on "AM," Working with Josh Homme, and Adapting John Cooper Clarke". www.undertheradarmag.com . Retrieved 24 July 2018. We'll Be Dropped Within A Year' – Read Arctic Monkeys' First NME Cover Feature | NME". NME. 5 April 2011 . Retrieved 12 January 2020. Harris, John (24 June 2005). "John Harris asks why pop lyrics are in such decline". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 August 2018.

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Drinks With: Arctic Monkeys | American Songwriter". Archived from the original on 15 December 2019 . Retrieved 1 February 2020. Simpson, Dave (2 February 2018). "Made of steel: how South Yorkshire became the British indie heartland". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 July 2018. Petridis, Alexis (17 April 2008). "CD of the week: The Last Shadow Puppets, The Age of the Understatement". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 July 2018. a b "Arctic Monkeys over The Car en hun geheime Spotify-playlist | 3FM Exclusive | NPO 3FM". YouTube . Retrieved 5 December 2022. Webb, Rob (4 February 2005). "Too much Monkey business?". BBC South Yorkshire . Retrieved 26 August 2015.

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Havens, Lyndsey (20 April 2018). "Inside Arctic Monkeys' New Album: Alex Turner Discusses Why Swapping Guitar for Piano Led to the Band's Most Ambitious Album". Billboard . Retrieved 15 August 2018. Murison, Krissi (20 May 2018). "Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner on their new album and returning to the limelight" . Retrieved 25 July 2018.In an otherwise positive review of a 2006 show, Richard Cromelin of the Los Angeles Times noted that Turner seemed "a little spooked by the attention" and hoped he would learn "to reach out more to the audience" in time. [21] [265] In 2007, Kitty Empire of The Observer noted that he was a "reserved" presence on stage: "He chats a bit to about 15 people in the middle of the front rows, and only looks up at the balcony, once, a little apprehensively." [266] Following Arctic Monkeys' headlining appearance at Glastonbury Festival in 2007, Rosie Swash of The Guardian remarked upon Turner's "steady, wry stage presence": "Arctic Monkeys don't do ad-libbing, they don't do crowd interaction, and they don't do encores." [93] Simon Price of The Independent said Turner seemed "to freeze like a rabbit in the spotlights" during a headlining set at Reading Festival in 2009. [267]

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