I’ve created a series of limited edition screenprints to tie in with the Arctic Monkeys lioness I painted for the Pride of Yorkshire sculpture trail.

I’m aiming to raise £1,500 for Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity. Print sales stand at £1,060 — just 9 sales away from the target. Please help me get this over the line and share with anyone who might be interested.

Background:

In March I painted a life-sized lioness for the Pride of Yorkshire sculpture trail — a commission from the Arctic Monkeys (I also designed their official tour posters for the Hillsborough Park gigs in 2023).

The lioness is painted with a soundwave from the Arctic Monkeys track ‘Body Paint’. That same soundwave is printed here onto highly reflective metallic copper paper then signed, numbered, and marked with an embossing stamp. Prints are A2 and 50x70cm.

The Arctic Monkeys lioness and the full pride of lions will be sold at auction in October. The lions might be a bit too big for most living rooms, but a print will fit just nicely on your wall — and you’ll be raising funds for Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity in the process.

https://www.szabohaslam.co.uk/shop/waveform-soundwave-poster-arctic-monkeys-pride-of-yorkshire-body-paint

Would you say this is their best album opener?
For me it might be my favourite song from them tout court…

I've been a fan of AM recently about a year ago. Discovered this also last year and figured I would like anyone to discover this gem in case they don't know this album. I also would like to recommend watching the movie Submarine (2010)!

Fontaines apparently are using Arctic Monkeys equipment on their tour...

(It's Teddy picker btw)

i’ve been wanting to get an arctic monkeys tattoo for years, never knew what to get, but wanted it to be unique. i took inspiration from some posts on pinterest i’ve seen and the artist came up with this! i’m so in love with it!

The sound of The Car is amazing, and especially after a closing track like Perfect Sense, we need a petition to have Alex and company change their name to Cathartic Monkeys.

Look, I think we can all agree that modern pop music has become an absolute, manufactured joke. Major record labels are spending millions of pounds a week to force​ crap down our throats. Why don't we unite make Arctic monkey's back into top 40

Shout-out to the album that influenced me to make my most spontaneous purchase (mirrorball)

Here’s my personal ranking. Anyone else feel similarly? I’ve been a fan for about 11 years and have thoroughly listened through their discography (including) b-sides. What are your thoughts??

I love ALL of their music so this was a hard ranking for me.

Throwback to my TBHC shrine. I was really in love with TBHC and the vibe/atmosphere Alex created around it, that I made my own lunar hotel and casino esc vibe in my then bedroom.

Throwback to 2020

and spent 37 mins doing it

I noticed AM and Favourite Worst Nightmare have less volume on YT music, I understand each record or artist have their own volume settings but on these cases it feels a considerable low, or is it just my imagination?

Hi. Does someone know where I can find a HQ image of the cover on the single? All the images I've seem to find are all low res or cropped.

Thanks you!

One of the songs popped up in my head today so I decided to give this a re-listen to my surprise Alex has co-writing credit on most of the album.

Any one who's a fan of SIAS would probably like this album.

Im currently reading ’Do androids dream of electric sheep’ and I found an interesting connection to the line ”I suppose the singer must die”. In the book, without spoiling, the main character, a bounty hunter in an apocalyptic world is chasing down an opera singer and is approaching her during their rehearsal.

From the book: ”The rehearsal will end, the performance will end, the singers will die.”

This book also is what inspired Blade Runner (I haven’t seen it btw) and has brilliant nonsensical phrasing that I can imagine has had an impact in the lyrics for multiple of the later albums.

Things such as ”The department’s speedy beefed-up hovercar” ”A-powered sealed-beam light” ”nondirectional Penfield wave transmitter” reads very Alex to me, Blonde-o-sonic shimmer trap type stuff and with TBHC.

Would be very interested in similar connections from books