Alex Turner fronting Arctic Monkeys @ Brooklyn Steel (Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
Arctic Monkeys will be in Spain next July.
Arctic Monkeys have been confirmed as the first headliners for next year’s Bilbao BBK Live.
The Spanish festival was one of the few major European events not to be visited by the Sheffield band as they reintroduced themselves during a busy season earlier this summer, one which concluded at the Reading/Leeds August bank holiday weekend.
“The huge opening salvo of Do I Wanna Know? and Brianstorm certainly helps; Rule One of festivals – get the audience on-side early – immediately dealt with and the expert rat-a-tat-tat drumming of Matt Helders ready to bring all the impending disparate sides together,” our Leeds Festival review reads.
“The inclusion of That’s Where You’re Wrong later means Suck It And See is just saved from again being the cruelly overlooked album in all this but still, let’s please hear the love for Suck It And See, while Potion Approaching’s rare outing shows off just how meatier the Arctic Monkeys sound is now live, starting off with an unlikely Rocket From The Crypt inspiration before evolving into a swampy rock waltz conclusion which sounds much more impressive here than it ever did on record.”