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Arctic Monkeys Trivia | 60 facts about the English band

The Arctic Monkeys is a really popular English rock band, that was created more than 10 years ago.

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Arctic Monkeys are an English rock band.
The band was formed in Sheffield in 2002.
The group consists of Alex Turner (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Jamie Cook (guitar, keyboards), Nick O’Malley (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Matt Helders (drums, backing vocals).
Andy Nicholson (bass guitar, backing vocals) is a former band member.
He left the band in 2006 shortly after their debut album was released.
Arctic Monkeys were heralded as one of the first bands to come to public attention via the Internet.
The commentators suggesting they represented the possibility of a change in the way in which new bands are promoted and marketed.
Their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006), became the fastest selling debut album in UK chart history.
It has been hailed as one of the greatest debut albums.
It won Best British Album at the 2007 Brit Awards.
The band’s second album was the Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007).
It also won Best British Album at the 2008 BRIT Awards.
They went on to release Humbug (2009).
Two years later, in 2011, they released the album Suck It and See (2011).
The band’s global recognition increased with their fifth album AM (2013).
It was supported by the global hit “Do I Wanna Know?”.
AM became their second top 10 album on the US Billboard 200.
Also, it topped four Billboard charts.
It was certified platinum in the US.
In the United Kingdom, Arctic Monkeys became the first independent-label band to debut at number one in the UK with their first five albums.
AM also went on to be one of the UK’s best-selling vinyl albums of the decade, selling 73,000 units and has earned 4× Platinum there.
At the 2014 BRIT Awards, the album became their third to win British Album of the Year.
Their sixth album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018), was a major departure from the band’s previous guitar-heavy work, incorporating lounge pop, space pop, glam rock and psychedelic pop, as well as elements of jazz.
It received a Best Alternative Music Album nomination at the 2019 Grammy Awards, their second to do so after Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.
Arctic Monkeys have won totally seven Brit Awards;
They have been nominated for five Grammy Awards.
The band received Mercury Prize nominations in 2007, 2013, and 2018.
Both Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not and AM are included in NME‘s and different editions of Rolling Stone‘s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time lists.
All of the band’s albums have topped the UK Albums Chart.
The band have headlined at the Glastonbury Festival twice, in 2007 and in 2013.
Influences on ‘Suck It And See’ included country music’s Johnny Cash, George Jones and Patsy Cline.
Alex Turned was named the 16th ‘Richest Brit Under 30’ in 2015.
His fortune is estimated in £7.5 million, just below Cheryl Cole and Amy Winehouse.
The first track Josh Homme heard of ‘Humbug’, before agreeing to produce the majority of the album, was a demo of ‘Dance Little Liar’.
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke hit out against the band’s success, saying: “The fact that (the) poor Arctic Monkeys are getting so much attention is purely based on the fact that the mainstream music business is such a bunch of fucking retards as far as I’m concerned.”
Matt Helders said he once ‘nearly fell asleep at the wheel’ after listening to a Radiohead album.
The Kills’ Alison Mosshart helped write (and provides backing vocals for) ‘Humbug’s ‘The Fire And The Thud’.
Matt Helders has been known to write messages on electrical tape and tape them to his bass drum instead of a band logo.
Phrases he has written include: ‘Guilty Feet Have Got No Rhythm’, ‘The Funk Might Fracture Your Nose’ and ‘Agile Beast’.
‘Fluorescent Adolescent’ was co-written by Alex Turner’s then girlfriend Johanna Bennett.
It was penned when the two were on a Mediterranean holiday.
The two were reminiscing about characters they knew at school.
Jamie Cook still plays for his local team, Packhorse FC.
Last Shadow Puppet and now solo star Miles Kane plays guitar on the studio version of ‘505’ and ‘The Bakery’.
Turner and Helders were neighbours and close friends.
They met Nicholson in secondary school.
Turner, who had grown up in a musical household played guitar in the then-instrumental only band, with Helders on drums, Nicholson on bass, and a new band member, Jamie Cook as a second guitarist.
Turner’s father was a music teacher.
As time passed, Turner became the lead singer and frontman of the band as he had “a thing for words”, according to Helders.
The band began rehearsing at Yellow Arch Studios in Neepsend
Arctic Monkeys played their first gig on 13 June 2003 at The Grapes in Sheffield city centre.
After a few performances in 2003, the band began to record demos at 2fly studios in Sheffield.
18 songs were demoed in all and the collection, now known as Beneath the Boardwalk, was burned onto CDs to give away at gigs, which were promptly file-shared amongst fans. The name Beneath the Boardwalk originated when the first batch of demos were sent around.
The first sender, wanting to classify the demos, named them after where he received them, the Boardwalk.
Slowly, as more demos were spread, they were all classified under this name.
This has led to many people falsely believing that Beneath the Boardwalk was an early album, or that the early demos were all released under this title.
The group did not mind the distribution, saying “we never made those demos to make money or anything. We were giving them away free anyway – that was a better way for people to hear them.”
Lauren Socha who played ‘Nina’ in the band’s film Scummy Man went on to star in Misfits.
Matt Helders is inspired by Led Zeppelin’s deceased drummer John Bonham.
Matt Helders famously joined P Diddy’s Dirty Money band for a performance on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.