The Arctic Monkeys

0:00So I cannot stop playing the duo I want to know on the guitar. Every time I pick it up, it's what I go to now. And it's so... and I was thinking about simplicity versus complexity when writing songs and how you guys work on that kind of stuff as a band. Right, yeah, that is a... well, the ability to not overcomplicate something is... and...

0:59something we've only acquired recently I think, you know, like that. This was the record where we really stripped as much of it out as ever I think. And whilst it's more complicated in other areas, I think, you know, in like, finishes the vocals or the vocal production on them. Look at that people. Yeah, and it's great. You come up for two minutes. I'll get a minute. Yeah. Yeah, the riff, the guitar stuff is pretty simple on this. I would say that for the whole record I would just say that riff, like, but the beatles stuff is all simple too, right? For the most part and that's just what works. Yeah, it is. It's harder to do that sometimes. Is it? Keep it simple, yeah. What about for you with the grooves? I mean the grooves on this record are different. Did God not score? Someone scored it. That's what's tempting though. Yeah, I mean like once you get better at something,

1:49it's tempting to like, show everybody what. But yeah, this one, it were... that's the way we like started writing and stuff meant that everything was simplified a bit and then we kind of liked what that was doing for the songs. That space seems to just move it all along a bit more and, you know, make you want to do something that nobody... Yeah. How did the songs sit live? I mean, because this record is so different than some of the other stuff. Like, how do you... how do you juxtapose them with that? Oh, within the list. Within the set, yeah. Yeah. It's a... Do they work back to that? It's a find. It's a craft. At first it was a bit lumpy. Yeah, but like now a year later it's kind of all... Yeah. Yeah. What has it done? It's just...

2:38It's all melted into... Yeah. Into one. You figured it out. Goo. Just brown goo. I've heard you say about... Gueggue. Gueggue. Why grey? I don't know. Like gomme. Like gueggue. You got a very specific idea with the coloring of the setlist. I get your Pantone reference. I keep going with doing what I want to know just because you've said it's your attempt to try and write lonesome tonight. Did I find that very interesting? I did say that. Do you? I was watching an interview earlier. I was like, that's an interesting thing to say. Well, I suppose that is essentially what the approach is of that lyric. Yeah. It's sort of that. Do you do that often? Like go... Like, is that something you realized in hindsight? That was an afterthought. Yeah. That was just to me. It's an hopefully succinct way of getting me out of that.

3:29You watched that all about that song. So I'm not going to. I'm going to forget about that. But it is... That doesn't mean the truth in it. I think that is like the... That was me. Yeah, that's my... Post-match. Exactly. All right. What about this one on R.U.M.E.E. and spiders from Mars covering Alia? It's a great description. Again. That might even have been you. I know it was in my show. I probably used it as well. Yeah. Since. I forgot. These guys are just living dream here. Jetsky to go fishing off. That's great. What's the point of that? Ouchimonkeys, man. The Ouchtik Monkeys. Oh, nice man. Cool. Yeah. Enjoy your day. I don't think they know you are. You bet. Yeah. I'm not a man. I'm a good show.

4:14Actually, I'm going to go with that for a second. Jetsky's. Oh. Sure. You guys like to know. For people who come up like that, if they've never heard our... People never come up like that. So that was the first. There's some original content here. But people like that who obviously didn't know who. Yeah. Where would they start with an Arctic Monkeys? If you were to let them choose, where would you want them to start? If I should probably start now, I think. Well, yeah. We're in the Humbug for American. Yeah. You did the Desert groups I think. That's awesome. Well, what was the... the Kamoka by... I mean the Bandatter under that as well. Jetsky. That's why it works, I think. I'm both. You said Humbug's like the turning point for the Arctic Monkeys. I'm scared to quote anything you've said at this point.

4:59The Humbug was like a turning point for the Band. But whoever it was interviewed didn't follow up. So I'm curious how come? Sorry, I'm still thinking about this. The Jetsky. I've got this strange thing. It looks like they're doing something wrong, like crime, but they're only fishing. I feel like we're going to be an alibi for something. I don't know. Were you on the bus and I was like, just test those monkeys or whatever. Humbug. Turning point for the Bandatter. Well, it was the first time we'd... I mean we worked with somebody completely different to what we worked before. And we went somewhere like we'd never been before either. And not just to record, but just felt like never been anywhere like that. Full stop. But then musically I suppose we just tried...

5:46That was like the first time we tried something a bit like out there. And it turned out to be quite crucial I think. It's crucial how we could do that. It probably meant it made us believe that we can do that and not worry about sounding like our team. Or not still being this band that we started. The evolution and being able to, I guess the confidence to say we don't need to sound like we sound it. Yeah, suppose so. It's interesting. I mean, yeah, give them more confidence to know that you could try something else and still have our identity. I love the juxtaposition from those guys having no clue and the little screaming for this. They've never caught a fish in their lives. You just made their life. That's an interesting thing. How do you deal with all that crap? That was the... This is the antithesis of those people on the jet ski.

6:31Yeah, it's fascinating. What does that mean? What is that? This is a movie. Yeah. How do you deal with that though? I mean obviously you dig it. It's got to be a cool feeling. It's still natural obviously. It's ready by I suppose. And I suppose you just can't take it. That's seriously the stuff to give the peace sign. It's easier for me to make that idea than it is to make mine. That's not what I meant but I thought I'd go with that then. You know what I meant to... You know what I meant to make their day? I heard you act out romance novels for the band in between like Coffee Breaks. Previously. Yeah, it's been a while actually. Probably not for the past couple of years. If you make it clear, you don't act to me. He reads the red one out one. I didn't mean that but I'm not out loud for the band.

7:17Yeah, yeah. That would be... Maybe that's what I do next though now. I've got a bit more confidence. Music video idea maybe? Real less novel? Yeah. Who Pedro, take me. I don't know. It's just all throbbing member this. I don't remember that. You do like that term? Dead in prison. I want to be yours. Yeah, Maria. I don't know. That's the name you go take me off a different shelf. I don't know. I want to be yours. Taking someone else's lyrics story in your own song. That's interesting. It's different. Especially the songwriter. It's an interesting exercise to go for. Yeah. Well, I want to be yours as you said. Yeah. It's all going off over here. It's like roll the blade in. Put a poet in the start.

8:02I would love if the roll the blade was stopped and was like, Who's playing tonight? They were like, rebad it all. You're two guys on that. Congratulations. It's just not where I expected the interview to go. I'm having a good time though. Taking other people's lyrics. Johnny Jogkuber Clark is a poet who, when I first saw him, Well, he started me off like writing lyrics really. It was a performance of him that I saw of him opening up for the fall at this pub that I used to work at. This bar I suppose that used to work at music. No, it was a pub here too. Yeah. Yeah, but it's not in there. Oh, okay. That was a language thing.

8:48Yeah, I got it. Yeah. And, yeah, got into it, got into his stuff and it was that, I guess, that he's going to start writing those songs for the first record, which is kind of an attempt to suppose that, you know, his approach to writing in a colorful way about kind of what could be seen as Benal Cenarri. Yeah, Mondane Cenario. Let's come full circle taking his stuff. That's cool. And then, so then, we then for some, that was probably the first,

9:38one of the first things that I'd like read of his or hers. And we had a, we would like mess around and add this idea, like a musical idea, and I sort of sang something over it. We'd recorded it until this four track set record, and we'd mess around with it a lot. And I sort of, sort of, singing bits of that poem just like off the top of the head. And then it was sort of, oh, maybe that would be, you know, if we do like this sort of, our attempt to like a slow jam, I suppose, but with, with a Johnny Clark poem is the bulk of the lyrics, and then it, yeah, seems to work out. So it's the other interesting juxtaposition that's in the view.

10:27So many of them. And I got to let you go. We got to wrap things up. So we do something called five questions. Five quick questions. Everybody gets the same ones. One word answers. Right. Rode or studio? Studio. Matt? What do you do? Letting her concur. Yeah. Letting her concur. Letting her concur. Letting her concur. Letting her concur. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't hear you, sorry. Yeah. When you hear a song what usually hits you first, lyrics, melody or rhythm? Melody. Rhythm. Someone's never heard arctic monkeys before. What song do they start with? All you buying. You know what that?

11:12Ten of three words, punk. That one's a louch. In one word, the arctic monkeys. Beast. That was quick. That was good. Yeah. You go beast. I mean, that's all we got about that. Yeah. It's an animal. I got nothing. Thanks, guys. Swamp. That's what I'm supposed to do. The great ones doing some dives. Yeah. This one, I guess the best ones here. They're cough. This one cough. This one is cough to be. Is that what they do? Oh yeah, they do like it. They're squawk. That's what massive fish here is like big. Yeah, you get a little bit of everything here. Maybe that's what they were fishing for on the Jutsky. Yeah, I think they're looking for that big cat.