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HSBC Arena, by Thaís Figueiredo

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Summer Sonic Festival, Tokyo, 12.08.2007

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electric_spaceinvader Alex gets how I feel. Throwback to last year: The Last Shadow Puppets || Outside Lands Music Festival 2016

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Paradiso, Amsterdam, 01.11.2005

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Arctic Monkeys @ Brooklyn Steel (9/05/18)

by Ben Kaye

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Cute new places keep on poppin’ up

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“Franz Schubert the composer said “there’s no such thing as happy music”. I always got a kick out of that. Not because I think that music has to be sad but because I think when it most effective there’s an element of it operating within a spectrum that has neither ‘happy’ or 'sad’ at either end of it. Music with lyrics in a language you don’t understand or no lyrics at all has the power to send vehement shivers through your body. It’s almost as if the melody or something else in there has an invisible direct line to the depths of the subconscious. This interests me greatly.

I always wanted to use the word 'Colorama’ in a song ever since I saw Antonioni’s Blow Up. It was an unplugged neon light at the back of my mind for years. Some lyrics are declarations of love or hate written in blood or carved in a bus stop, in need of little or no melodic illumination. Some, I believe, are there almost entirely to facilitate it. If I ever thought about it at all I’m sure I used to think the melody was the vessel that carried the lyrics but more recently it has occurred to me that the opposite is often true.

The problem with the neon sign analogy is that neon signs are invariably bolted to the wall and full of gas. Melody seems as though its poured rather than sprayed and doesn’t feel as though whatever holds it ought to be fixed to anything.

I sometimes imagine each word to be made using a three dimensional open-top glass alphabet. Each letter built to harness and transport the mirror ball liquid marble of the melody. When the 'substance’ fills up the syllables they seem to shimmer and become weightless. With the addition of close harmony I see colours swirl together, parts of the lyrics glow and the way in which they float suggests that something like the 'star gate’ sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey is happening deep inside them out of view.”

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TLSP for British GQ

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im crying

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Miles Kane by Jude Edginton

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Alex Turner @ Pukkelpop Festival 2006

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The Iconic Drumming Behind "R U Mine?" Arctic Monkeys

May 14, 2025

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The Iconic Drumming Behind "R U Mine?" Arctic Monkeys

May 14, 2025

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Alex Turner and Ian McAndrew at the Music Week Awards 2025

May 8, 2025

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