Matt’s new drum skin, Casino de Paris - 31 January 2012 (source: joeller)

Google said HYFR is an abbreviation for Hell Yeah Fucking Right. Eh?

Loads of things happened this month. Here’s a link to the post just in case you missed the roundup.

Casino de Paris setlist, courtesy of our friends at AMFrance.

• Begin by fucking up the New Year’s Eve countdown at Falls Festival then,
• Take Australia by storm—play stellar shows with Little Illusion Machine and Evil Twin on the setlist, be completely ridiculous on stage, take shirts off with Miles Kane, et cetera. 
• Operation mindfuck: release the video for Black Treacle. Get a ‘what-the-fuck-did-I-just-watch’ reaction among the majority of the community. Then, make them realize days later that it’s actually based on a bible story. Have AMUS’ HBIC carefully examine it. Blow everyone’s brains out. 
• Decide to play Coachella in April; excite/stress those in the US, frustrate the rest of the world.
• Be strange. Cover a Patsy Cline song on Triple J’s Like A Version + make everyone remember the glory that is the UK tour and have the entire Birmingham gig streamed on Q Radio.
• Return to your roots and collaborate with Richard Hawley on You and I, a b-side bound to confuse Lady Gaga fans. Rev engines, smoke cigarettes and have wicked guitar solos, you know, stuff of rock ‘n’ roll.
• Release a video for said b-side. Give Nick and Jamie some screen time, make it look like a grown-up version of Teddy Picker, drive around in fancy cars and motorbikes, have Richard Hawley in it. Sheffield is wonderful. 
• That’s not enough, of course. So perform at Radio 1’s Live Lounge. Hide Alex in some closet and pretend he’s lost (fans will enjoy that story), do a Katy B cover then return to Jonathan Ross and let Alex have some sofa fun time with Kermit and Miss Piggy… cause the girls will love that. 
• Receive 7 nominations at the NME Awards, including best album art proving either minimalist is the new maximalist or NME smokes the good stuff and;
• Jet off to Spain and show everyone a good time both in Madrid and Barcelona before commencing the week-long French tour in Paris. Never give anyone, especially that girl who runs FYAM, a break.

Currently at the Casino de Paris… I’m trying to figure out what’s on Matt’s drum skin. via AMFr

The week-long French tour is just about to kick off at the Casino de Paris! (via AMFr) 

Arctic Monkeys with a fan in Spain, January 2012 (via the forum)

(photos: German Praga, nooneremembersyourname)

Setlist:

• Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair 
• Teddy Picker 
• Crying Lightning 
• The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
• Black Treacle 
• Brianstorm 
• The View From The Afternoon 
• I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 
• Library Pictures 
• Evil Twin 
• Brick by Brick 
• This House Is A Circus 
• Still Take You Home 
• Pretty Visitors 
• She’s Thunderstorms 
• Do Me A Favour 
• When The Sun Goes Down 
• Suck It and See (encore)
• Fluorescent Adolescent (encore)
• 505 (encore)

Arctic Monkeys in Fuji Rock Festival 2011

hughjackwoman:

how are arctic monkeys nominated for best album artwork

because…

You know it. I know it. 

Are you fucking kidding me, NME 

No one is hot in that list

viewfromthecornerstone:

Best British Band
Best Live Band
Best Album
Best Track
Best Video
Best Album Artwork
Most Dedicated Fans

And Alex is nominated for Hero Of The Year, for some weird reason, ha.

VOTE NOW

footholes:

While doing holograms the other day, i thought the world needed an Arctic Monkeys’s related hologram. My Suck It And See lighter was a good object for it.

Now this is just so fucking cool.