With the band's drummer Matt Helders confirming that the Arctic Monkeys are officially working on a seventh studio album , now is as good a time as ever to get to know everything there is to know about the 'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? Alex provides lead vocals and rhythmic guitar, along with the occasional stint on keyboard and percussion.
Jamie provides lead guitar, along with keyboard and backing vocals, Matt plays the drums and provides backing vocals, whilst Nick plays bass and also provides occasional backing vocals. Former member Andy Nicholson, who played the bass guitar, was in the band for four years, spanning from The band started back in , as an instrumental only group.
Alex and Matt, who were close friends and neighbours at the time, teamed up with their pal Andy to form the group. After the addition of Jamie, the Arctic Monkeys played their first official gig in and soon began recording demo tracks. The Arctic Monkeys began to gain popularity as they handed out CDs, containing their 18 demo tracks, at various gigs.
In their early days, Arctic Monkeys would attend, and often play support, at fellow Sheffield band Milburn's gigs. Many fans have since drawn comparisons between the two bands' music, claiming there is a striking similarity between their chords and lyrics. The drummer spoke on an Instagram Live, revealing that the band were in the "early stages" of writing their new record, however the process was being hindered by the pandemic.
I remember where I was, and where I made that music. He admits he does enjoy producing and playing bass the most though. So I just get them into play on my stuff. It was an idea Andy had while exercising during lockdown. I work a lot with samples and I thought why not get as many people as possible to contribute to something, no matter how good you are on your instrument. He put out the call on his Instagram and the response was amazing. There are five to 10 samples on each song — including the intro, which is a song that a girl had just written and recorded on her phone.
There were also some really weird samples sent in too. I tried to use as much as I could and try to make them a fit without compromising. And he even got his old Arctic Monkeys bandmate Matt Helders involved. Half of Sheffield claim to have been at this gig, I can assure you about were there, we had a steady few down as we always bullied our mates and family to watch us, like yer do.
The support band had a rather enthusiastic crowd, hovering about all stood on tip toes pretending they were old enough to be there.
Our drummers brother was there, he knew Rob Nicholson they were both in a band called The Wanted Robs brother was Andy Nicholson the original bass player in the support band. Our drummer Matt Revill was a whiz with technology he had a mini disc recorder n the lot and was planning to record our set. To test the equipment he recorded part of the support bands set.
We thought we had a real coup having this recording but after Matt uploaded it to his computer, an old programme called Lime Wire accidently shared it to the world so that put pay to us being the sole owner of the first ever recording of the arctic monkeys. The very first show of the band. Setlist below.
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