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Click Here to check it out and 'Become a Fan'.

Support Arctic Monkeys December Tour Announced

Arctic Monkeys are pleased to announce they will be joined by special guests The Horrors and The Rascals for their sold out UK Tour in December.

The Horrors
www.myspace.com/thehorrors

The Rascals
www.myspace.com/rascalmusic

Let's Have a Game on the Teddy Picker

Arctic Monkeys are pleased to announce that 'Teddy Picker' will be the third single from their album 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' to be released on 3rd December.

Keep checking back for more information.

Arctic Monkeys Nominated for Mercury Music Prize (Again)

The Arctic Monkeys are in the running for the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize again this year.
If they are the winners, it will mean they are the first band to have won twice.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Arctic Monkeys - 'Favourite Worst Nightmare'
Klaxons - 'Myths Of The Near Future'
Amy Winehouse - 'Back To Black'
Maps - 'We Can Create'
The View - 'Hats Off To The Buskers'
Jamie T - 'Panic Prevention'
Dizzee Rascal - 'Maths & English'
Bat For Lashes - 'Fur And Gold'
Young Knives - 'Voices of Animals And Men'
Fionn Regan - 'The End Of History'
New Young Pony Club - 'Fantastic Playroom'
Basquiat Strings - 'Basquiat Strings'

Arctic Monkeys on Johnathan Ross

It was recently announced that Fluorescent Adolescent would be the second single from the new album. It will be released this Monday (9th July) and the tracklisting is as follows:

CD:

Fluorescent Adolescent
02. The Bakery
03. Plastic Tramp
04. Too Much To Ask

10"

Fluorescent Adolescent
The Bakery
Plastic Tramp
Too Much To Ask

Full Glastonbury Set

Click here to download the entire set as a .rar file

Setlist:

When The Sun Goes Down
Brianstorm
Still Take You Home
Dancing Shoes
From The Ritz To The Rubble
Teddy Picker
This House Is A Circus
Fake Tales Of San Francisco
Balaclava
Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend
Old Yellow Bricks
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
If You Were There, Beware
Fluorescent Adolescent
Mardy Bum
Do Me A Favour
Leave Before The Lights Come On
The View From The Afternoon
Diamonds Are Forever
505
A Certain Romance

We will have the set to download in video format tomorrow, which you will be able to both stream from our video player and also download.

Also, we will be resuming regular updates from today, as well as rolling out our new design (which undoubtedly is way overdue), along with gigabytes of new content!

Arctic Monkeys at Glastonbury

Last night (Friday 22nd June), the Arctic Monkeys headlined the 2007 Glastonbury festival, in which they performed a cover version of Shirley Bassey's "Diamonds are Forever".
You can download the audio of this cover here.

Join us after the festival is over when we will bring you more video and audio coverage of the headlining performance.

We're Not Dead

Just to let everyone know, we have been extremely busy over the past few weeks so we haven't had much time to work on the new features of the site.
Rest assured we haven't closed the site down, and we shall have a plethora of new content and features coming to the site in the near future.

Arctic Monkeys Midweek Update

As you all know, Arctic Monkeys released their second album 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' on monday and it looks set to be a huge smash hit in the charts by the end of this week, much like the record-breaking debut album 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'. Contest only really comes in the form of current chart-topping album 'The Best Damn Thing' by Avril Lavigne.

Meanwhile, in the singles charts the band look to set more records as every song on the new album has individually entered in the top 150, according to midweek reports.

Arctic Monkeys in the midweek singles charts looks like this:

5 - Brianstorm
47 - Flourescent Adolescent
57 - 505
63 - Teddy Picker
64 - Balaclava
67 - D is For Dangerous
70 - Old Yellow Bricks
71 - This House is a Circus
72 - Do Me A Favour
74 - Only Ones Who Know
77 - The Bad Thing
78 - Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend (Brianstorm B-Side)
114 - if You Were There, Beware

Keep buying, people. Also, we've got something special lined up here at Mardy Bum so keep checking back for updates.

Arctic Monkeys Slam Current Hip-Hop State....and Mark Ronson

Arctic Monkeys have laid into the current state of hip-hop music and also had time to state their disliking of [Lily Allens producer] Mark Ronson's cover of The Smiths.

Speaking to The Sun, Alex Turner said:

"I hate all those 'Pop Idol' singers. And let me tell you what I can't stand - that fucking R&B cover version of 'Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before'."

Jamie Cook added thoughts about hip-hop being dead:

"Even music I don't usually listen to, like hip-hop, is obviously bad at the moment. There is no real hip-hop anymore.

"Timbaland is a good producer, but he's in every song right now. Come on, there are other producers - and other beats."