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Arctic Monkeys Play Secret Pub Gig With New Bassist

Arctic Monkeys last night played a 10 song, 40 minute set in front of a full 120 capacitated 'Old Blue Last' London pub.

The secret gig was to introduce new temporary bassist Nick O'Malley who (as reported earlier) will be gearing up to take the place of Andy, who is taking a well-deserved rest throughout the North American tour.

And as if we didn't already know, Turner confirmed during the gig that the band's summer single will be Leave Before The Lights Come On'.

He said:
"We're going to play our new single for you now. It's straight out of the hit factory. This is our summer hit, watch out for it."

Reports suggest the band played well, and they apparently would have played on longer, had it not been for their demanding curfew.

The setlist ran:
'The View From the Afternoon'
'Still Take You Home'
'You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights But You Were Looking Straight At Me'
'Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But..'
'Dancing Shoes'
'Cigarette Smoker Fiona'
'Leave Before the Lights Come On'
'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'
'Fake Tales Of San Francisco'
'A Certain Romance'

For various live versions of 'leave Before The Lights Come On', visit our Live Music Downloads page.

25 May 2006

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By Mike on 26 May 2006 01:09 am

Thats one amazing setlist. And we'll finally get to hear a studio version of Leave Before the Lights Come On! Explains why it wasnt on the EP.

By jord on 26 May 2006 03:11 pm

i actually feel physically sick that i missed out on it

By lonlonlon on 26 May 2006 03:48 pm

WTF!!!!

'Old Blue Last' is one of my local!!

By ACertainRomantic on 26 May 2006 04:31 pm

haha lonlonlon you must be gutted!!! wish id have been there it looks like it was a great setlist and id have loved to have been one of the first to hear the monkeys with Nick O Malley. But oh well...................

By Dana on 26 May 2006 08:10 pm

Reports suggest the band played well, and they apparently would have played on longer, had it not been for their demanding curfew.
What did their parents come and tell them it's past your bedtime boys. That's hilarious

By certainromance on 26 May 2006 08:30 pm

eww! the new guys looks like some1 out of green day! MUNTA

By hahah on 27 May 2006 09:45 pm

bollocks, thats not nick o'malley
looks more like Q to me!

By living on 28 May 2006 06:28 pm

this is the gig i think http://www.nme.com/news/arctic-monkeys/23164

By poncem on 29 May 2006 06:05 am

i love leaving before the lights come on, its such a great song, is it only being played on gigs or has it been recorded?

By Kat on 29 May 2006 10:18 am

i thought i missed this....it turned out to be something else, so i was VERY happy. may i juts say, that mardy-bum.com is actually a better website for info than the official website - seriously, its just better. x

By Heather on 30 May 2006 11:31 pm

Gr8, all seems to be going well, get a replacement that's mates of theres, gells in nice and easy...and then he goes and breaks his fookin hand. Nice one, hope that was worth gettin pissed Nick :P

By seanseansean on 31 May 2006 09:34 am

his hand was already broken.. it happened about 3 weeks ago, it's just the press are pretty slow these days

By john on 31 May 2006 01:38 pm

yeah thats probably why mardy bum didnt report it because its old news.