“All the boys got shorter hair, and I thought, ‘What can I do to one-up them?’ I am the singer after all, and you’ve gotta be a dick sometimes. I saw an Elvis picture where he had the curl, and I thought, ‘Maybe I could do that.’ Once you have the haircut, certain clothes just start to look right, don’t they?” – Alex Turner about his quiff
Arctic Monkeys at Disco Rodeo in Raleigh, NC. Oct 12, 2011 (x)
“I guess I’ve written with more people and collaborated than Alex
has, being solo,” Kane tells Live4ever. “That’s been great and turned
out good, but anything me and Al write, or when we work together, it’s
different. And even though those other things were enjoyable and are
great, there’s just something else, the outcome definitely couldn’t
happen without doing it together. He rounds off my edges when we sing
together.“
“I haven’t really done this with anyone else,” Turner concludes. “I
mean, I write with the Monkeys but it’s in a different sort of way. I
think when people talk about when siblings sing together there’s
something that happens with the harmony, I feel like there’s a bit of
that. It clicks into place with the two voices together.”
Which leaves us with a big question for the future: when will the
next spark arrive? Another eight years? Next week? Tomorrow? Never?
What’s apparent is the last people to ask are probably Alex Turner and
Miles Kane, settled as they are in this most unique of songwriting
partnerships, accepting it brings out their best but content to allow it
to flourish and develop at its own pace. (x)
326 Miles 