Culture: Talking Monkey Business ; Wil Marlow Goes Ape for Everybody's Favourite New Band, the Arctic Monkeys
Birmingham Post › January 23, 2006
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This year it will be impossible to avoid Arctic Monkeys. In many, nay all, the "ones to watch" lists published at the beginning of the year, the band were touted as a foregone conclusion to become the biggest band of 2006.
No album being released in 2006 is as hotly anticipated as the band's forthcoming debut Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. But that title is indicative of the band's own attitude towards the hype that surrounds them.See the full content of this document
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Culture: Talking Monkey Business ; Wil Marlow Goes Ape for Everybody's Favourite New Band, the Arctic Monkeys
"It's flattering for people to say we're the next big thing," says 19- year-old drummer Matt Helders. "It's nice to hear. But you don't want it to go so far that it's not about the music, that it's about people being told to like it.
"I don't want people to like us for the wrong rea...See the full content of this document
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