Arctic Monkeys Dressed As Oasis For Primary School Assembly
Monday, 14 May 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner has revealed that the band used to pretend to be Oasis when they performed in school assemblies admitting that he is a big fan of the band's album 'Morning Glory'.
Turner and drummer Matt Helders both attended the same primary school together and, at their year six leavers assembly, decided to pretend to be Oasis for the day complete with tennis racquet guitars and bucket hats.
In the UK, you go from primary school to secondary school at age 11, Turner told Pitchfork. And when we left primary school, all the kids would form groups and do a performance, like the girls would do a dance to the Spice Girls, or whatever. So me and Matt and some of our friends put on 'Morning Glory' we 'played' some tennis racquets and pretended to be Oasis. Matt was Liam Gallagher, he had the bucket hat on. I was the bass player.
He added: We were just standing there, doing what Oasis did onstage. Which was not a great deal. I don't think we got as good a reaction as the Spice Girls.
He went on to talk about his love for Oasis, and said: With Oasis, it's just that attitude, like it's resistant against everything else that's going on in music. I don't know if you can fully understand that-- it's like an impulse, innit? Especially at that age, you don't rationalise, you're just like, 'That looks cool.'
And I feel like that's the fucking way it should be now, in a way. Guitar music or rock'n'roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive.
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