CityLife

I must agree with Jay T. I especially like I'm a Believer

You fool, Anonymous, how dare you have an opinion! You must follow the party line, everything the Monkees do is great, always is and always will be!

Well said Lee. Anonymous, don't sit down cos I've moved your chair. Onwards and upwards, progression. <br /> Get a life.

That's a hilarious comment. Maybe they should have just put the CD on, rather than tweak versions for a live show, eh

I don't often walk out gigs before they're over but, for the Arctic Monkeys, I made an exception.<br /> <br /> This was not the same group who filled Old Trafford for two days, playing to 100,000 people. Rarely have I seen a band so bored - and therefore so boring - on stage. You can always tell when a group are tired of playing their early songs. They either stop playing them altogether or, as here, they start making unnecessary changes to them. New, false endings, sudden stops, extra "twiddly bits", more guitar solos, changes to the song structure.<br /> <br /> The set was heavily biased towards the latest album and with very little stand-out material there to draw on, it made for a particularly lifeless gig. There were good versions of My Propeller and Crying Lightning but the whole mood was of a band going through the motions.<br /> <br /> If you've built your reputation on youthfulness, energy and a bunch of snappy songs you'd better have something good to replace them with when you decide you've "moved on" and you "want to develop as an artist". Otherwise all that's left is the empty shell that was on display here.<br />