If you want a laugh

Random - I went to their staff xmas party in '05/06 and Alex was absolutely hammered when he got up to try and sing.

 

A back catalogue of range & diversity comparable only to The Beatles.

I bet Twitter would've lost it's **** over Sgt Pepper.

 

Hell no..

 

Good to see Rick Astley got his hair back.

 

Thought they were shocking! It’s clear to see they hate performing their old songs & just go through the motions, so unprofessional!

Tonight should be an even better laugh with Axl Rose struggling through his set no doubt, seen clips from recent performances & he butchers his own songs!

I know one band who would absolutely smash it & would absolutely love headlining the main stage unlike Mr Turner & co, it’s not happened for them yet but next year is a strong possibility I would have thought!

Taylor Swift was locked in this year by all accounts but pulled out due to scheduling issues that’s why Guns n Roses got the nod last minute!

 

Amazing in Sheffield? I was there Saturday, everything played at half speed. Mentioned his own city once, had long dark silence between songs. Could have been watching them in Norwich and wouldn’t have known the difference. They were mediocre at best.

 

Well we loved it the Friday night. Heard some people complaining about him not interacting with the audience but what did they expect? He didn't interact with audience when he was breaking through, and his shtick now is coolest man on the planet persona. Personally I can't stand all the faux chat nonsense (where you in time for The Hives? Jesus). And arctic Monkeys back catalogue is so good they don't need to fill time.

 

Mate went on Friday and said they were good…

I think they’d had enough by Saturday. They weren’t professional at all. Not just not talking between songs, but a minute of silence and nothing… the crows were restless. For comparison, here’s the Friday and Saturday mardy bum. Same song, different tempo, different result. Oh and he even forgot words, luckily the crowd were singing it for him.

 

I watch them not very good in fact boring.

 

Ah ok, that's a shame mate. The buzz in Sheffield on the Friday was amazing and I didn't leave the Leadmill afterwards until 3.30am

 

I say bring back The Wurzles.

 

Apart from Turner's songwriting I think they're bang average. The other members of the band are no better than most of the musicians at Barnsley Live. They've really dropped on that their mate is talented even though he's up his own arse.

 

I've never showed much interest in the Arctic Monkeys in the past, but I watched last night's performance. As I know nothing of their back cataliogue I can only comment on last night. I thought AT's strutting around was straight from the Jarvis Cocker playbook and his singing style was a morph of Jacques Brel and brian Ferry. I'm not sure that's complimentary or not.

 

Brian Ferry. thank fekk I didn't watch em.