Arctic Monkeys have opened their Sheffield homecoming gig with ‘A Certain Romance’ from their 2006 album ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.’
It’s the tune’s first outing on their present tour, and the primary time the band have performed the tune collectively in full since 2018.
The gig is the primary of two homecoming occasions for the Arctic Monkeys at Hillsborough Park; the band final performed their hometown 5 years in the past.
Elsewhere within the present, the band did a canopy of John Cooper Clarke’s ‘I Wanna Be Yours’.
You can see photos, footage and response from the gig, together with the complete setlist, beneath:
Arctic Monkeys taking part in ‘A Certain Romance’ tonight in Sheffield 😍
— The Rock Revival (@TheRockRevival_) June 9, 2023
a sure romance – arctic monkeys in sheffield 💕pic.twitter.com/Qd7a7IUnd0
— arctic monkeys archive (@arcticmolnkeys) June 9, 2023
#arcticmonkeys what gig unbelievable in Sheffield tonight pic.twitter.com/2YCy1ldDIf
— westhuller (@westhuller68) June 9, 2023
some extra footage of arctic monkeys performing “a certain romance” in sheffield tonight pic.twitter.com/aJY4kRDDAC
— c ⏣ ⚭ (@tlspmusic) June 9, 2023
I fucking love Sheffield. Honestly, fucking adore it ❤️#arcticmonkeys pic.twitter.com/jvoHy0jTD8
— Chris Holt (@HoltChris) June 9, 2023
Nah the Arctic Monkeys kicked issues off with a sure romance, completely iconic scenes in Sheffield! 🤠
— Jamie Whitehurst (@jwhitehurst1989) June 9, 2023
AM beginning with A Certain Romance in Sheffield 🥹 Had a sense they might #arcticmonkeys #arcticmonkeystour
— Andy Baber (@andybab3r) June 9, 2023
Sheffield setlist in full:
‘A Certain Romance’
‘Brianstorm’
‘Snap Out of It’
‘Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair’
‘Crying Lightning’
‘Teddy Picker’
‘Four Out of Five’
‘Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?’
‘Arabella’
‘Sculptures of Anything Goes’
‘Cornerstone’
‘Fluorescent Adolescent’
‘Perfect Sense’
‘Do I Wanna Know?’
‘Mardy Bum’
‘There’d Better Be a Mirrorball’
‘505’
‘Body Paint’
Encore:
‘I Wanna Be Yours’ (John Cooper Clarke cowl)
‘I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor’
‘R U Mine?’
Following one other gig of their Sheffield hometown tomorrow (June 10), the band will head to Swansea, Southampton and London. For the latter, they’ll play three reveals at Emirates Stadium on June 16, 17 and 18, earlier than then transferring by way of to Ireland. You can discover any remaining tickets right here.
The band are additionally headlining Glastonbury later this month alongside Guns N Roses and Elton John.
Arctic Monkeys launched their newest LP, ‘The Car’, to essential acclaim final 12 months — following on from their 2018 LP, ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’. In a five-star evaluate, NME praised the band for the exact songwriting within the album, in addition to their revolutionary 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.”