Alex Turner onstage with Arctic Monkeys headlining TRNSMT Festival 2018 (Photo: Live4ever)
‘I just wanted to be one of The Strokes, now look at the mess you made me make’. With that Alex Turner clunked his teenage dreams into the opening bars of Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino with very little subtlety, and as the Arctic Monkeys continue the album’s North American tour it seems he’s intent on in turn continuing to revisit his early-noughties US rock education.
After using the band’s gig in New York to cover The Strokes once again, their stop in Detroit last night provided the perfect opportunity to doff their cap to White Blood Cells and The Union Forever. Check out fan footage below.
Arctic Monkeys are at Lollapalooza tonight and will head back to the UK next month before another run of North American gigs in October.
Tour dates:
August
2 – Lollapalooza Festival, Chicago Il
4 – Osheaga Festival, Montreal, Canada
5 – Air Canada Centre, Toronto
8 – Oya Festival, Norway
9 – Way Out West Festival, Sweden
11 – Flow Festival, Finland
14 – Sziget Festival, Hungary
September
6,7 – Manchester, Manchester Arena
9, 10 – London, The O2
15 – Birmingham, Arena Birmingham
18,19 – Sheffield, FlyDSA Arena
24 – Dublin, 3Arena
27 – Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena
October
9 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
10 – Oklahoma City, OK, The Criterion
12 – Houston, TX, Revention Music Center
16 – Los Angeles, CA, Hollywood Bowl
19 – Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Bowl
20 – San Francisco, CA, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
23 – Seattle, WA, WaMu Theater
24 – Portland, OR, Veterans Memorial Coliseum
25 – Vancouver, BC, Pacific Coliseum