The Last Shadow Puppets (Alex Turner & Miles Kane) @ Cake Shop, NYC 3/5/08
Photos by Kyle Dean Reinford, Video by Abbey Braden
Remember a couple of years ago when Arctic Monkeys came to NYC for a couple of shows and everyone freaked out? Well it's happened again, only this time Alex Turner has a new travelmate, and the shows were just a little lower key (record stores and cake shops instead of Mercurys and Bowerys). The cheeky Monkey's joined up with the Rascals' Miles Kane to form the Last Shadow Puppets, and here they are, USA. Actually, here they are, world: The two shows this week (Tuesday at Brooklyn's Sound Fix Records, Wednesday late night at Cake Shop) were the duo's live debut, period. Our friends Abbey and Kyle left impressed and sent over some video and photo souvenirs to rub it in. First up is Abbey's vid of the "The Age Of Understatement," which is the perfect song for the soundtrack of a spaghetti western, were it to be set in London:
Good tune. Obviously the studio version's even better, which you can check via a just released, proper pitchfork.tv-style video at theageoftheunderstatement.com (full screen!). Meanwhile, we've got some more photos and video for you. (UPDATE: And now we've got YouTube of "The Age Of Understatement"'s official vid, too.)
"The Chamber"
"Meeting Place"
Excellent stuff as always, Abbey, thanks. Other photo friend of the 'Gum Kyle delivers some more still pics...
Find more of his shots here. Alex and Miles are releasing a full-length debut The Age Of The Understatement via Domino on 4/21 in the UK, 5/6 in the US.
And as previously updated, here's "The Age Of Understatement" in enjoyable official video embed format:
Posted at 12:16 PM in Concert, Video
Tags: Alex Turner | Arctic Monkeys | Miles Kane | The Last Shadow Puppets | The Rascals
Fucking YES.
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Um, I think you've gotten ahead of yourselves with those live dates. The Soundfix set was on Tuesday night and, I'm guessing, they played Cake Shop on Wednesday since,you know, it's not yet Thursday night.
Unless you mean they played CS sometime after 12AM this morning. Or, today is actually Friday and I've somehow lost a day.
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OK, I checked and the CS gig was at 1AM this morning so, thankfully, I haven't lost a day.
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no it is I that flashed forward. thanks SP for being my constant. fixing now.
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i kinda like that song and I hate the arctic monkeys. I'm surprised, frankly surprised.
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are they doing any more shows in NYC?
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guhhhhh. why wasn't I there??????????
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my thoughts exactly. please someone tell me they are playing again in ny. i just found out wintersleep is playing tonight like 5 min ago. is there a site that informs ppl of EVERY show in the nyc/brooklyn area? if i miss one more show i wanted to see, im gonna flip. its happened waaaay too many times already.
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Sounds great. Honestly, how can anyone 'hate' the Arctic Monkeys? Twenty years ago, Alex Turner would've been a big star over here, at least within the 'college crowd'. Now, it's all folk music and prog rock. What a revoltin' development.
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I can't wait for this album to come so I can get away from all this terrible "experimental pop".
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hey the fuelfriends blog has a live mp3 of the new tune from Tuesday night's show:
http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2008/03/arctic-monkey-and-his-twin-caught-in.html
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Arctic monkeys are my favourite band . How could anyone possibly hate them ? i would cut off my own arm just for a chance to meet alex . Hes unbelievable. Perfection. x
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Argh! Why can't I see these videos!? It sounds so good...
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i cannot even begin to describe how in amazing i believe both the arctic monkeys and the last shadow puppets to be. they are just....incredulous bliss :)
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eu amo o arctic monkeys porque eles são simplesmente demais.eu amo 505, only ones who know, teddy picker...ah, eu amo todas. não dá pra dizer qual é a melhor.se eu pudesse ao menos falar com eles...com aqueles bonitinhos do alex, jamie, matt e nick, que se tirna o meu favorito por tocar o meu instrumento favorito...arctic monkeys eh a banda do futuro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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