Arctic Monkeys kick off UK tour with first efficiency of ‘Mardy Bum’ in 10 years

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Arctic Monkeys kick off UK tour with first efficiency of ‘Mardy Bum’ in 10 years


Arctic Monkeys kicked off their UK stadium tour in Bristol final evening (May 29) — take a look at the complete setlist and fan-captured footage under.

The gig marked the primary of 15 reside dates the band have lined up on this UK and Ireland tour, which makes stops in Sheffield, Manchester, London and extra.

Kicking off at Bristol’s Ashton Gate Stadium, the band performed a complete of 21 songs, together with numerous tracks from their newest LP ‘The Car’, which was launched final October.

Alex Turner and co. opened the gig with a reside rendition of ‘Mardy Bum’. Taken from their 2006 debut ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, the present marked the primary time that the unique album model of the observe has been carried out reside since 2007. It was final carried out reside by the band in 2013.

Another rarity additionally arrived halfway by the setlist when the band pulled out their first efficiency of ‘My Propeller’ in almost 10 years. Other highlights from the present included basic tracks ‘Teddy Picker, ‘The View From The Afternoon’ and ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’, in addition to a canopy of John Cooper Clarke’s ‘I Wanna Be Yours’.

Arctic Monkeys additionally performed a few of their hottest songs, together with ‘505’, ‘Arabella’ and ‘Do I Wanna Know’, and closed the showcase with a three-song encore of ‘Sculptures Of Anything Goes’, ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’ and ‘R U Mine?’. Check out the complete setlist and pictures from the second under.

Arctic Monkeys performed:

1. ‘Mardy Bum’ (First time album model performed since 2007)
2. ‘Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair’
3. ‘Brianstorm’
4. ‘Snap Out of It’
5. ‘Crying Lightning’
6. ‘Teddy Picker’
7. ‘The View From the Afternoon’
8. ‘Four Out of Five’
9. ‘Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?’
10. ‘Arabella’ (With ‘Pretty Visitors’ instrumental interlude)
11. ‘My Propeller’ (First time reside since 2014)
12. ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’
13. ‘Suck It and See’
14. ‘Do I Wanna Know?’
15. ‘There’d Better Be a Mirrorball’
16. ‘I Wanna Be Yours’ (John Cooper Clarke cowl)
17. ‘505’
18. ‘Body Paint’

19. ‘Sculptures of Anything Goes’
20. ‘I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor’
21. ‘R U Mine?’

Arctic Monkeys are set to make a cease at Coventry’s Building Society Arena tomorrow evening (May 31), earlier than enjoying two back-to-back exhibits in Manchester’s Old Trafford Stadium on June 2 and three.

From there, the band will head to Middlesbrough and Norwich, play two exhibits of their Sheffield hometown, and ultimately transfer by Swansea, Southampton and London. For the latter, they are going to play three exhibits at Emirates Stadium on June 16, 17 and 18, earlier than shifting by to Ireland. Find remaining tickets right here.

The band launched their newest LP, ‘The Car’, to crucial acclaim final 12 months — following on from their 2018 LP, ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’. In a five-star assessment, NME praised the band for the exact songwriting within the album, in addition to their progressive concepts.

“The band ‘pick up where they left off’ on 2018’s ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’,” it learn. “Their masterful – and divisive – collection that traded razor-sharp riffs and stadium-sized choruses for loungey space-pop, obfuscating characters and a shady lounge lizard persona for frontman Alex Turner.”

The band kicked off the European leg of their tour in Austria final month (April 24), the place additionally they shocked followers with the primary reside performances of each ‘Suck It And See’ and ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’ since 2014.



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