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Alex Turner by Chris Blood, 2024

#he put this uncropped one in his stories! #alex turner #arctic monkeys #post car era #m #i had to screenshot it since it's posted as a video so it's not the highest quality

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chris_bloodfilms Met my hero on a train. This story is long so scroll if you cba reading. It’s 2005, a band explodes on MySpace. They’re dressed like you and their lyrics are a mirror to your life. Bleeding heck, who the fuck are the Arctic Monkeys? After 19 years on repeat it’s now 2024. Myself and @/conor_bloodfilms are travelling back from Paris. We arrive at Gare Du Nord and Duffy stops in his tracks. He whispers to me “I think that’s Alex Turner.” “F**k off!” I immediately reply. I gaze over at a guy wearing a leather jacket with long brown hair, his face adorned with aviators. We should probably stop staring as it’s getting weird, sexually and aggressively weird. Turns out it is bloody Alex Turner, the man who’s provided the soundtrack to my life! He strolls past and disappears into the Parisian platform crowd. A missed opportunity. We board our train back to London. We look to our left and there’s Alex. Sitting in his seat accompanied by a notepad. He’s probably writing the next Arctic Monkeys hit “Two gawping pricks on a train”. We really need to stop staring. I tell Duffers I’m going in, he stops me. Reminds me that I’m a fully functioning adult and not to create a scene. Christ, he’s right! I feel like I’m 15 years old again, someone get me a Strongbow and whack Dancing Shoes on, kin hell lad! Eventually myself and Con engage, it’s a surreal experience. Alex is polite and returns conversation in a soft friendly manner. The whole situation is just bloody lovely. I awkwardly ask if I can take his portrait, fully aware that it could result in an awkward exchange and destroy this wonderful moment. He smiles and obliges, he’s effortlessly cool, asks for direction and I take a few snaps. We disembark the train, I felt quite emotional and that’s embarrassing to admit. Maybe it was the jet lag, the caffeine and croissant overload? Or maybe it was just the rekindling of my youth. This all might sound trivial, however, for me these portraits are deeply personal serving a reminder that life is a series of fortunate events and when fully appreciated can conjure up some pretty awesome memories.

#oh there he is #takes guts to ask to take portraits of him #and he asked for direction lol #looks like he took a couple more he didn’t post based on the video at the end #post car era

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I never saw you cry, not until our dog died

And the whole family came back together

We held her body as they put the needle in her

And then I saw you cry

And then I saw you cry 🎶

did you happen to listen to real house by adrianne lenker? the album bright future is so good...contrast between sweetness and sadness...

i haven’t heard it, but it sounds like it’ll make me cry haha. thank you for the recommendation tho, i’ll listen sometime 💗

#sorry i didn’t see a notification for this ask!

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Really fucking sad. No words.

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Babygirl I know bandom lore I couldn't pay you to care about

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the girl next to me saw me taking this photo and asked if i’d never been to the house of blues before, and i had to be like no i’ve been here, it’s just that eight years ago i saw this weird band here and the frontman started the show in that balcony in a bathrobe

#i left out the bathrobe part lol she didn’t know tlsp or am #i thought being in this venue would bring back memories but it really didn’t :(

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positives:

last week i met maggie rogers twice (2nd time was just in passing) and she signed my record

got to see her at an intimate show at the house of blues

got to be a part of a special moment during don’t forget me where we all held up “we won’t forget you” signs which made her tear up

negatives:

had to spend five hours sitting on a bridge in the cold at 5:20am in order to get tickets

the concert was cut short bc like five people in a row passed out

i caught covid

#came back home and immediately got a jury duty summons tested postive for covid and received my dog’s ashes so. fun’s over lmao #anyway that line was crazyyyyy we were on all the news stations #getting there at 5am was NOT my initial plan but it became apparent that it was necessary if i wanted tickets #by 6:45 the line went from the venue down the bridge down the street and all the way down the other bridge across from me #did not expect to be watching the sun rise over the chicago river that morning lol #it was so so so cold and i was not dressed for it #the show was great tho she has such good energy and the new album is better live #sad we didn’t get to do most of the audience request songs but i hope all the people who passed out are ok… #also she was sweet when i met her but they rushed us through the line SO fast it was like 15 seconds

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Arctic Monkeys in Ireland, October 2023 By Aaron Parsons

#forgot to put october in the caption #i knew the caption looked too short

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Favourite Worst Nightmare Album Cover (Original Picture)

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Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

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Favourite Worst Nightmare House (x)

#they're so cute and little

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South Liverpool Homes: It’s 12 years since Arctic Monkeys released their Favourite Worst Nightmare album. Did you know that the photo on the album cover was taken at what is now Saunby Close in Garston, and that the house was owned by SLH?

Here’s some original shots of the band and our team getting the house ready back in 2006. The final photo shows what stands on the site now as part of our Churchfields development.

#iconic #17 years now

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Favourite Worst Nightmare songbook

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#crazy that people were hearing this for the first time 17 years ago #and now it's had such a huge surge in popularity

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See, it seems Arctic Monkeys have realised they’ll make a film of their lives one day and with the mature, rounded and relentlessly thrilling Favourite Worst Nightmare have opted to beat the producers to the soundtrack. Except they’ve got the plot all wrong. They’ve envisioned here a Pulp Fiction hotch-potch of dark, acerbic and instantly memorable set-pieces, but the true Arctic Monkeys story is a real coming-of-age heart-warmer. It’s band meets success, band fools around with rules of success, band almost loses success by agreeing to record with a pissed-up Girls Aloud, but in the end band and success are made for each other. And Favourite Worst Nightmare even subverts Hollywood’s biggest truism: the sequel’s better. An unforecasted hurricane.

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Happy birthday to Favourite Worst Nightmare, which was released on 23rd April, 2007.

“Favourite Worst Nightmare has zero time for messing about - every song immediately makes its presence felt and ends just as abruptly before hurling the listener full throttle into the next. It’s a 38-minute ride allowing a mere five-minute breather (the wistful ‘Only Ones Who Know’ and the first half of ‘Do Me a Favour’) before carousing its way to perennial set-closer ‘505’. If their debut defined a generation, this record shaped the band’s future in a manner more mature, sexy and - just like the party depicted in the rowdy track ‘This House Is a Circus’ - berserk as fuck.”

#17 years is crazy #that's a whole teenager

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Arctic Monkeys in Ireland, October 2023 By Aaron Parsons

#alex turner #arctic monkeys #am7 tour #dublin 2023 night one #or #dublin 2023 night two #belfast 2023 #could be any of them #m