12.21.09
Arctic Monkeys Post Webcast of Live Summer Gig on the Internet
Rock band Arctic Monkeys have posted a live webcast they performed in the summer on the internet.
The band have posted the transmission, which saw Alex Turner and company perform five tracks from their third album ‘Humbug’live on a dramatically lit stage with giant blue screens in July earlier this year, on ther official site arcticmonkeys.com.
The performance included of cover Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’, ‘Red Right Hand’.
Just days prior to the August release of their most recent full-length, Humbug, the Arctic Monkeys walked on to the Lollaplooza’s Budweiser stage for what would be one of the most mystifying hours of live performance in recent memory. Gone were the clean cut indie rock princes that had first burst onto the scene in 2006 with the masterful Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. In their place were four shaggy haired gentlemen playing guitar riffs echoing somewhere in between Queens of the Stone Age and Led Zeppelin.
The audience, expecting to hear the band’s trademark rock bounce, responded with awkward enthusiasm. In turn, the band, eager to abandon that trademark rock bounce in favor of Humbug’s grit, offered an equally awkward series of emotions, choosing to avoid audience interaction by hiding behind the rock sludge. When the band arrived to “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”’s required spot on the set list, the resulting performance sounded forced. By hour’s end on that hot August day, it was tough to determine what side could not most wait for the end the audience or the band.
Exactly four months later, the Arctic Monkeys outfit arrived at New York’s Terminal 5 for the first of two Big Apple performances in support of Humbug, and to to say the resulting 90 minute set was a complete 180 than what was seen and heard at Lollaplooza is perhaps the biggest understatement in recent memory. What unfolded at Terminal 5 on Thursday (Dec. 11th) was nothing short of masterful.
