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“We don't like to play support slots.”
“I'm a '70s guy at heart. I play a lot of Bowie and 10cc at home.”
“Governments don't get elected saying, 'We're going to lower GDP next year,' governments get elected on saying, 'We're going to increase prosperity and the happiness and the wealth of our nations.' But that kind of capitalism will only lead to the destruction of our planet.”
“It didn't matter if we put out 'The Dark Side Of The Moon,' we weren't going to be liked by everyone.”
“After touring the first album, we went into the studio and started making music that was influenced by all the freaky folk music we'd been listening to. Lots of Canterbury scene stuff from the 1960s and '70s. Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine, Caravan, Gong.”
“There's nothing better than looking out into the audience and having a whole sea of glowsticks staring back at you.”
“I spent all of my youth wanting to be in a band.”
“Glowsticks look great. They look better than holding your mobile phone in the air.”
“I'd say dance is as relevant to us as, say, pop. It's as relevant as electronica, as relevant as ambient or experimental music. I wouldn't say it's something we spend more time on than any other genre.”
“If you look at the whole New Rave movement, the big common ground is definitely the fun element. It's more outward-looking music than introspective.”
“Being my own boss means I'm a nine-to-five dad Monday to Friday, it's the best thing ever. It's the most difficult, insane, wonderful job you could ever do, but it's more important to hang out with your daughter.”
“People have used Crowley before, but we wanted to try and get a Crowley-reference song on the radio. We just wanted to have a go, and just try things. There was a kind of 'why not?' attitude.”
“It's expensive being in a band, way cheaper buying a laptop.”
“I've always loved melody and pop hooks, slightly left of centre but I have always tried to balance it with songs that have lyrics you can sing along to.”
“There's a time and a place for a bit of realism, and it's bands like Arctic Monkeys that do it amazingly well. But why do bands have to recycle something that's already been done very well? We wanted to make interesting pop music, and to drop in literary references.”
“We have high expectations and a high level of standard we try to reach in everything we do. Ideas get through if they are good enough, songs get their way in.”
“Drummers are tough.”
“My nan, God bless her, used to buy the NME, then go to the chip shop and be like 'ooh check out that' every week, she'd be saying, 'Oh have you heard the new single by Arctic Monkeys?' and it's like, I haven't even heard this!”
“For our third album, 'Love Frequency,' we've gone back to our old style. The album is full of songs that people can sing along to. They're songs full of hooks.”
“New Rave was like the 60s - if you can remember it then you weren't there.”