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Library Pictures
Tour Dates
Brianstorm This House Is A Circus Still Take You Home Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair Pretty Visitors Teddy Picker Crying Lightning Brick by Brick Cornerstone I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor Potion Approaching All My Own Stunts If You Were There, Beware Do Me A Favour When The Sun Goes Down Encore: The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala The View From The Afternoon Fluorescent Adolescent
05/30/11 Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO
Alex Turner's Hairdos
05/31/11 In The Venue - Salt Lake City, UT 06/02/11 Fox Theatre - Pomona, CA 06/03/11 Hollywood Palladium - Los Angeles, CA 06/10/11 Don Valley Bowl - Sheffield 06/11/11 Don Valley Bowl - Sheffield 06/17/11 Southside Festival - Tuttlingen, Germany 06/19/11 Hurricane Festival - Bremen, Germany 06/20/11 Admiralspalst - Berlin, Germany 06/22/11 E-Werk - Cologne, Germany 06/23/11 Paradiso - Amsterdam 06/26/11 Rock A Field Festival 2011 - Luxembourg 06/29/11 Le Zenith Nantes Metropole - Nantes, France 07/01/11 Rock Werchter 2011 - Werchter, Belgium 07/03/11 Eurockéennes Festival - Belfort, France 07/08/11 T In The Park - Kinross, Scotland 07/09/11 Oxegen - Punchestown Racecourse, Ireland 07/11/11 Les Nuits De Fourvi?re - Lyon, France 07/14/11 Super Bock Super Rock Festival - Portugal 07/16/11 Benicassim Festival - Benicassim, Spain 07/17/11 Gurten Festival - Bern, Switzerland 07/29/11 Fuji Rock Festival - Naeba Ski Resort, Japan 07/30/11 Jisan Valley Rock Festival - Seoul, South Korea 08/01/11 The Palladium Ballroom - Dallas, TX 08/02/11 Stubbs - Austin, TX 08/03/11 House of Blues - Houston, TX 08/10/11 The Showbox - Seattle, WA 08/11/11 Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR 08/19/11 Lowlands Festival - Biddinghuizen, Netherlands 08/20/11 V Festival - Hylands Park - Chelmsford, UK 08/21/11 V Festival - Weston Park - UK 08/27/11 Rock En Seine - Domaine National, France 09/03/11 I-Day Festival - Bologna, Italy
Well, the Arctic Monkeys are back and they are returning back to First Ave, and I'm certain it will probably sell out like the last time. If you don't like crowded hipster shows, best avoid this one, otherwise get your tickets before they sell out.
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Quite an early, but sold-out, gig for Arctic Monkeys and The Vaccines at First Avenue, in Minneapolis, last night, May 28th.
First of all, this is an excellent billing, unlike previous years of teaming up Arctic Monkeys with the all-girls pop group The Like, in 2009, and punk-ish Be Your Own Pet in 2007, Vaccines seems more garagey rock and in tune with what Arctic Monkeys are all about.
Just to give you a little background on The Vaccines, they're a fairly new band, having only formed last year. They signed to Columbia Records and released What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? in the UK in March (I was told by a fan at the show that their album isn't out in the US yet and they were going to pick up the album at the merch table). I did get a chance to listen to the album, which comes out May 31st, and I really like how they sound like they're a band from the 60s, particularly how catchy "Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)" and "A Lack Of Understanding" sounded on the album and live (so much I had to tweeted it).
They ended their set with their most energic song, "Nørgaard", something about "going steady", but since she's only seventeen, "she's probably not ready". It's a pretty fun, but short, song, but it definitely keeps the audience wanting more.
So, this was my third time seeing Arctic Monkeys, so it was nice to see the band grow from naive clean-cut youth, to shaggy-haired dude, to dome bowl hair. Performancewise, I noticed that Alex Turner is doing more on stage now - whether it's jumping on the drum stands, or talking a little more between songs.
He knows his audience, after the slowest song on their set, "Cornerstone", Turner said, "I know what you want to hear, you want to hear more like this--". He then started playing the intro to "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor".
As you can see from the setlist, they did some new songs from their forthcoming album, Suck It and See, which isn't out until June 7th. Highlight from the set is their first-ever live performance of "All My Own Stunts". According to Turner, they've never played the song live before last night.
If you can see both bands on the bill, it's worth it, otherwise, the following are dates The Vaccines are scheduled to appear in the US.
First of all, this is an excellent billing, unlike previous years of teaming up Arctic Monkeys with the all-girls pop group The Like, in 2009, and punk-ish Be Your Own Pet in 2007, Vaccines seems more garagey rock and in tune with what Arctic Monkeys are all about.
Just to give you a little background on The Vaccines, they're a fairly new band, having only formed last year. They signed to Columbia Records and released What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? in the UK in March (I was told by a fan at the show that their album isn't out in the US yet and they were going to pick up the album at the merch table). I did get a chance to listen to the album, which comes out May 31st, and I really like how they sound like they're a band from the 60s, particularly how catchy "Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)" and "A Lack Of Understanding" sounded on the album and live (so much I had to tweeted it).
They ended their set with their most energic song, "Nørgaard", something about "going steady", but since she's only seventeen, "she's probably not ready". It's a pretty fun, but short, song, but it definitely keeps the audience wanting more.
So, this was my third time seeing Arctic Monkeys, so it was nice to see the band grow from naive clean-cut youth, to shaggy-haired dude, to dome bowl hair. Performancewise, I noticed that Alex Turner is doing more on stage now - whether it's jumping on the drum stands, or talking a little more between songs.
He knows his audience, after the slowest song on their set, "Cornerstone", Turner said, "I know what you want to hear, you want to hear more like this--". He then started playing the intro to "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor".
As you can see from the setlist, they did some new songs from their forthcoming album, Suck It and See, which isn't out until June 7th. Highlight from the set is their first-ever live performance of "All My Own Stunts". According to Turner, they've never played the song live before last night.
If you can see both bands on the bill, it's worth it, otherwise, the following are dates The Vaccines are scheduled to appear in the US.
5/29 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
5/31 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue
6/2 Pomona, CA Fox Theatre
6/3 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium ** SOLD OUT
6/4 San Francisco, CA Mezzanine
6/5 San Francisco, CA The Clift
8/5 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
8/6 Long Island, NY Escape to NY
8/10 Seattle, WA Showbox at the market
8/11 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
8/13 San Francisco, CA Outside lands
9/16 -9/18 Austin City Limits
5/31 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue
6/2 Pomona, CA Fox Theatre
6/3 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium ** SOLD OUT
6/4 San Francisco, CA Mezzanine
6/5 San Francisco, CA The Clift
8/5 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
8/6 Long Island, NY Escape to NY
8/10 Seattle, WA Showbox at the market
8/11 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
8/13 San Francisco, CA Outside lands
9/16 -9/18 Austin City Limits
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