Ahhhhhhhh. So I was out having a cigarette with my friends and he comes out and starts smoking near us but alone, just looking in our direction, and these rats are running nearby him so I say, “Hey, there’s a bunch of rats over there.” And he goes, “Oh god really?” I’m like, “Yeah you’re the rat king.” So he laughed and said, “Yes! I’m the rat king, might as well embrace it” and then “Hi I’m Al” and we discussed rats further etc etc
we used our little fingers more mhm in different ways and sometimes you don't know what you are pressing that's the thing with the keys isn't it ah- because is not our first instrument martin sometimes we don't know what button we're pressing with our little fingers
So I got to interview The Last Shadow Puppets on wednesday 3rd February in Paris and they started to sing Anna (Go To Him) by the Beatles straight away… I was already recording them… so here it is for you, enjoy!
The debut Arctic Monkeys album, “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” (Domino), has been instantly — and accurately — hailed as a modern classic, even though it was only released a week ago. The British music magazine NME ranked it at No. 5 on a recent list of the greatest British albums ever. It sold over 360,000 copies in the last week, making it the fastest-selling debut album in British history.
But despite this whirlwind, Mr. Turner seemed unusually self-aware but not at all worried as he sat backstage at the Carling Academy Glasgow before playing yet another sold-out show.
“My granddad said to me, ‘I think you’ve overdoon it,’” he said, acknowledging with his Yorkshire pronunciation the huge fuss about the little band. “And I said, ‘I think you’re right.’”
- The New York Times, January 30, 2006
Happy Birthday, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Release Date: January 23, 2006