Boy Kill Boy seemed to have got a lot going for them, in my books, which is why I’m baffled that they didn’t make a greater impact. They are a straight-ahead guitar rock band with tons of energy and great catchy songwriting. Their first album, Civilian, is pretty much back-to-back awesome songs. "Suzie" tops the list. As far as I can tell, their latest release, The Sun and the Sea, was never released on this side of the pond, as they say.
Sadly, the band broke up in October of last year. At least we got a couple of great albums out of them.
Here's the video for "Suzie":
And the video for "Shoot Me Down"
Video for "Back Again"
And the video for "No Conversation" from the second album
Arctic Monkeys is one of those bands that grabbed me. When I first heard Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not when it came out in 2006, I was instantly hooked. The band was tight, the songwriting was instantly appealing while being unique, and the way the stories were told was engaging. I remember their awesome performance on SNL, too. I still love the album and it certainly has one of the largest number of five-star songs from one album in my iTunes library.
Favourite Worst Nightmare came out in 2007 and although it had a massive success to follow on, it was a great album, too.
Their new album is called Humbug and the first single is "Crying Lightning". The single's available from iTunes right now and the album is due out August 24th in the UK. Probably means that we'll see it in North America on the 25th.
Check out the tune below.
Arctic Monkeys will be touring North America in September and October. Dates are below.
SEPTEMBER 14th September - Soma, San Diego 15th September - Hollywood Palladium, LA 16th September - Fox Theater, Oakland 18th September - Wonder Ballroom, Portland **FREE SHOW** 19th September - The Showbox @ The Market, Seattle 20th September - Malkin Bowl, Vancouver 22nd September -In The Venue, Salt Lake City - w/Airborne Toxic Event 23rd September - Ogden Theatre, Denver - w/Airborne Toxic Event 25th September - First Avenue, Minneapolis 26th September - Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee 28th September - Newport Music Hall, Columbus 29th September - Kool Haus, Toronto 30th September - Electric Factory, Philadelphia
OCTOBER 2nd October - House of Blues, New Orleans 3rd October - House of Blues, Houston 4th October - Austin City Limits Festival, Austin 5th October - The Palladium Ballroom
And for your listening and viewing pleasure, here's a gem from the first album - "A View from the Afternoon".
Edit: July 16. I just finished reading a great article on Arctic Monkeys and thought it turned out better than my article, primarily because the writer had access to the band themselves. Enjoy.
