Arctic Monkeys have announced that they will play two huge outdoor shows in London's Finsbury Park next May.
Earlier this month, Alex Turner had hinted that the Sheffield band were interested in playing their own outdoor gigs in 2014 following their headline slot at this year's Glastonbury Festival. Now, they have issued a statement on their official website confirming that they will play Finsbury Park on Friday May 23 and Saturday May 24, with support to come from Tame Impala, Miles Kane and Royal Blood.
Arctic Monkeys have announced details of details of an American tour in January and February 2014.
The dates include their biggest headline show in the States so far - at New York's Madison Square Garden on February 8. Starting in Miami on January 30, the tour will visit 12 cities in total, ending in Minneapolis on February 14. Deerhunter will provide support for the New York and Boston dates.
Arctic Monkeys have postponed a second date on their current arena tour.
The band already pulled a show due to take place last night [October 31] in Birmingham.
They have now announced that the show due to take place tonight at Glasgow Hydro has also been postponed.
The band have since announced that Alex Turner has been diagnosed as suffering from laryngitis.
Arctic Monkeys ride tractors in the black and white video for new single 'One For The Road'
The song, which features on the band's latest album 'AM', is accompanied by a new video shot by Focus Creeps, who also made the videos for 'R U Mine?' and 'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?'
The video starts with guitarist Jamie Cook riding a tractor slowly through an empty field before joining his bandmates for a performance of the song, surrounded by models and fireworks exploding in the background.
Arctic Monkeys have made Official UK Albums Chart history, as AM enters the chart at Number One.
The band's new album, AM, released by Domino Records, is the band's fifth consecutive Number One, making them the first indie-released act to achieve such a feat, reports the Official Charts Company.
David Bowie and the Arctic Monkeys are currently William Hill's favourites to win the 2013 Barclaycard Mercury Prize, after the nominations were announced yesterday evening [September 11].
Arctic Monkeys are streaming their forthcoming album AM online.
The album, which is released on September 9, is now available to listen to via iTunes.
The band's fifth studio album features guests including Josh Homme and former member of The Coral, Bill Ryder-Jones. See below for a full tracklisting.
The 'AM' tracklisting is:
'Do I Wanna Know?'
'R U Mine?'
'One for the Road'
'Arabella'
'I Want It All'
'No.1 Party Anthem'
'Mad Sounds'
'Fireside'
Arctic Monkeys debuted a new track "Arabella" at Zurich Open Air Festival.
It was the first time the band have played the track live. "Arabella" is taken from their forthcoming album AM. You can watch the band perform the song by scrolling down the page.
AM is set for release on September 9 and also features the tracks "R U Mine?" and "Do I Wanna Know?". Guests on the album include Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and former member of The Coral, Bill Ryder-Jones.
I hope you had a good Bank Holiday break. I spent a very enjoyable chunk of it reading the new Carl Hiaasen novel – excuse the shameless self-promotion, but you can read an interview I did with Hiaasen over on my blog. But now we’re back in the office, and it’s my pleasure to introduce you all to the new issue of Uncut, which goes on sale tomorrow.
