Alex Turner’s Interview On Later… With Jools Holland 2013

Arctic Monkeys - Alex Turner about the songs of “AM”

hey i know you're sorta like alex number one fan so i was wondering if you could make a detail evolution of alex haircuts over the years or whatever

omg, hahaha wow, okay i will try:

Well everything started with his first years of life he use to have this typical child haircut. he looked like a little monkey

Then we know about him in his teenager years. he used to have this sorta chav, punky hair. which it was sorta cool yeah, look

Then in 2006 he started growing his hair and end up being the first alex long hair, at the end of the whatever tour. here

Then after a break to record the 2 album, al had a hair cut and it looks really short kind of like a beatles cut. he had tha hair cut for a while:

Around 2007 he made the puppets album with miles kane in france. by that time his hair was a bit more longer, summat like this. lovely

And at the end of the FWN tour, (apollo remember?) he cut his har a bit but still he had plenty of hair. this is one of my fav moments f alex hair, watch out.

Now in 2008 he was touring with miles and he get thos the beatles mop again, this is my fav alex hair. really similar to some style of 07 hair:

and a bit longer at the end of puppets tour

and then he went to record humbug at Joshua tree and his hair was long by them, not as long as we know but long

by the time they finish humbug and start properly touring the album he get the massive long hair.

THEN he suddenly decided to cut those hairs down a bit and he looked so fab here

And well, the humbug era ended in mexico and then out of the blue we saw alex with fucking short hair again and ont only that with a bit of lightning on his hair or whatever. it looked amazing

But it didn’t lasted too long, after a while he came back to his normal hair and even more short wow, here

Then they recorded sias at the end of 2010 and beggining of 2011 and alex had the famous presias hair, wow. other of my fav hairs frick, take  alook bb

And out of the blue one day in austin in august 2011 he fucking appears with a fucking quiff. the well famous quiff. this is the day the earth changed forever

now he still has the quiff but its different, its not the richard hawley quiff he used to have, its a bit more nice, i liek it better

ohhh and lately he’s starting to use a bit less of gel between concert and it looks amazing as fuckkkkkkkk. 

And that’s pretty much all, jsut going very quickly about it, hope it work (btw my draft thing is not working right now so im going to post it without checking so it might look bad and i wouldn’t tell, fuck it)

In the anniversary year of Arctic Monkey’s ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’, here are a few moderately to very rare promo items from the era. 

alex turner + emoji faces

Interviewer: Alex, so the last time I saw you was with the Shadow Puppets and that was over a year ago…and at the time you said you didn’t feel particularly in a rush to work on another Monkeys record… [x]

Esquire: Why haven’t Arctic Monkeys messed it up?

Turner: It depends on who you ask, in some people’s heads we probably have. I suppose working with good people, and a bit of luck, really. We’ve got a great manager and we made a good decision there to sign with a label that was going to encourage us to flourish. [Thinks] I was trying not to say this but, you know, it’s built on a friendship that goes back to when we were, like, seven years old or whatever. I’m just desperately trying not to be, like, sentimental.

O’Malley: We keep trying. I need to get a really big drug habit, then we’re fucked. But you want to look back and go, “No regrets about it”. You meet people who are in bands and they seem quite bitter about things that have happened to them. But we’ve got no feelings like that. Hopefully, when I’m old I will still be able to say that.

Helders: There’s loads of things we’ve backed away from or not done that maybe would have made us a bigger band but weren’t necessarily that credible or something we could live with ourselves for. Even if that’s just a song idea that’s a bit dishonest in a way. It’s quality control. As long as we all agree on stuff, then I think we’ll be alright.

Cook: Really? I don’t know.

“It could have been better if we’d have put that picture of Helders in rollerskates on the cover. I like the current one but I sort of wish we’d have done that.” - Alex Turner for NME

What were you wearing when you wrote that riff? (x)

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