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i learned how to make gifs. smiley face.

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Alex Turner for Spin: 2009

John Sellers: Josh Homme’s stink is all over this record. What does he smell like in person?

Alex Turner: He smells like…[Pauses to fiddle with his cellphone] Don’t know, man. I just got a vibration in my pocket. Really threw me off the scent.

John: The album really does have a Queens of the Stone Age vibe. Was that a conscious decision?

Alex: There was never a desire to make it super Queensy. Nor do I think Josh would have wanted to be the guy who makes the Arctic Monkeys heavy like Queens.

John: How did you meet him?

Alex: At a jumble sale. He was buying cable-knit jumpers. We share a love for the cable-knit.

John: No way.

Alex: That’s not true about the jumble sale. Actually, the first chat I did have with Josh on the phone once we knew he was going to do some of the record was, Should I borrow my girlfriend’s cable-knit jumper to go to the show I’m about to leave for. He advised me to wear it. I knew after that conversation that it was all going to work.

John: What did you learn from him?

Alex: There are solos on a lot of the tunes, which is something we’ve always been a little scared of. The solos we have had were quite punky and short and a bit nasty. But having Josh there, and also [engineer] Alain Johannes, who’s a fucking unbelievable guitarist, was dead encouraging for [bandmate] Jamie [Cook] and I. We’d say, “Oh, we’re not very good at all that.” And then they’d send us out on the porch with a little amp to work it out.

John: With a copy of Van Halen’s OU812, no doubt.

Alex: Well, that certainly wasn’t encouraged.

John: You topped the NME’s list of cool musicians in 2005, when you were just 19. How did you keep something like that from going to your head?

Alex: I dropped to 32 the year after, which was a stink. I saw that as a dis, actually.

John: Did you feel less cool?

Alex: I don’t know. But I’d like to return to the top spot. What have I got to do? I’ve tried growing out the hair. Maybe I need to just get a snowhawk.

John: A snowhawk?

Alex: It’s a white mohawk. That’s what Dave Catching, who plays in Eagles of Death Metal, has.

John: I’m not sure that would up your cool factor. But maybe you could start a feud?

Alex: And maybe I need to do it with someone who I’m sort of friends with, so we can take it to a massive level. You know what I mean?

John: What about starting one with Josh Homme?

Alex: It’d take loads for us to fight. But if it’s just a verbal feud, yeah.

John: He’s what, six-four? He’d probably pound you in a real fight.

Alex: He wouldn’t catch me, though.

John: Wait – what about Def Leppard? They’re also from Sheffield, so it’d be a hometown smackdown!

Alex: We already have a feud with them.

John: About who’s more successful?

Alex: Just kidding. Probably, on paper, Def Leppard would kick our ass in that regard. I mean, they were quite big in the States, weren’t they?

John: Hysteria was a huge album.

Alex: So, yeah, we still need our Hysteria. In the literal sense.

John: Still, on your upcoming tour you’re going to be headlining arenas in Europe. Do you ever wish you could go back to playing more intimate venues?

Alex: The thing is, we couldn’t do that anymore because we’re so loud now. Matt [Helders]’s drumming has changed so much – it’s much tougher and louder. As a result of that, everyone else is louder. So I just don’t think we could handle a little stage now because we’d struggle to keep from blowing your head off.

John: Your girlfriend is MTV host Alexa Chung. Does dating someone with a similar first name ever cause problems?

Alex: No, but if you put my full name together with hers – Alexanderalexa – you don’t need a conjunction.

John: Interesting. In 2005 you said your overnight fame would come back to bite you in the ass. Has it?

Alex: No, it’s only bitten me on the shoulder.

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“I think, much like a yoga instructor, he’s always stretching himself and he’s finding new places to reach. He’s willing to take big risks and i really respect that and i think it’s the way to do it.”

— Josh Homme about Alex Turner (GQ Magazine 2013)

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i need yall to understand the vision for this idk how im gonna live in a world without it now that ive thought of it

early mornin by britney spears the last shadow puppets cover….miles sings the chorus alex sings the verses…can anyone hear me….

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early mornin by britney spears the last shadow puppets cover….miles sings the chorus alex sings the verses…can anyone hear me….

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“the one people that really know what happened is them…” WRONG. im smarter than everyone else and have deduced every interaction and i know exactly what happened.

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oh my god did you guys know this specific tlsp song has exactly 223 words in it??

2+2+3 equals 7...which is what? HOW MANY COLORS THERE ARE IN A RAINBOW!! they're gay guys this is proof!! it's been in front of our faces the whole time they're so crazy for spelling it out like that!!

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your "indie sleaze" is performative. i can smell it from here you don't have the originality for it. and you're not indie or sleazy.

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he has always been slutty

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miles 😵‍💫 kane 😵‍💫 miles kane 😵‍💫😵‍💫

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Damn the whole band except Alex was at Tom’s show 😭😭

of course. did not expect more from him.

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everything stop going on im getting fomo

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i get viscerally repulsed by some pictures of alex when his hair is too long because he starts to remind me of lin manuel miranda