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Article: Rock & pop: The return of the Northern beat combo Arctic Monkeys The Ritz MANCHESTER Hard-Fi Electric Ballroom LONDON
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2005
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If you switch on Radio 1 at around 6.55pm this evening, it's odds
on that you will hear confirmation that Arctic Monkeys have gone
straight in at No 1 with their new single, 'I Bet You Look Good On
The Dancefloor'.
This will be the latest peak in the rapid and seemingly
unstoppable rise of this Sheffield band. Arctic Monkeys were the
surprise success of the Reading Festival, and last week headlined the
London Astoria having released just one limited-edition single (the
last band to do that was The Darkness). There's no question about it:
at this rate, Arctic Monkeys are gonna clean up in 2006. Ker-
chinggg!
So, it's the mother of all hype-jobs, right? Well, no. The
Monkeys' rise has been a ...