Photos: Arctic Monkeys play first of two nights at Birmingham Arena


Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys performing the first of two shows at Birmingham Arena in September 2018 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)




Gary Mather was at the first of Arctic Monkeys‘ two shows at the Birmingham Arena for Live4ever’s latest coverage from the band’s Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino campaign.

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This week brings four shows in their hometown of Sheffield before two nights apiece in Dublin and Newcastle bring the tour to a close, a tour launched in support of an album whose, ‘wild diversionary nature may result in no-one ever feeling safe from the band’s next step again‘ according to our review:

“Described by Jamie Cook with typical Yorkshire understatement as ‘definitely not a guitar record’, Tranquillity Base… at no point relinquishes its inner weirdness, a glance inside a songwriter’s mind which, amongst the colloquialisms, is now weaving stories with the skill of a master beyond his years.”

“His commitment to this bar-stool repartee is total, closing pair Batphone and The Ultracheese a rustic country soliloquy and shuffling hip-hop curio respectively, sounding with every listen more and more like a pair of eccentric non-identical twins.”


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