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Alex Turner has responded to comments made by The Orwells that Arctic Monkeys live shows have become 'repetitive'.
In an interview with Gigwise last month, Orwells guitarist Matt O'Keefe said that they had learned good and bad things from supporting the band for their recent American tour.
"When you're playing arenas and everything, it's a huge production then the show has to become synchronised to work. Because you have all these people relying on these songs and this you're going to do here," he said. "So every night no matter how he was feeling he'd go into that opening riff . It was the exact same ad-libs he was putting between the songs. So we were with them for about 50 dates, you saw them once and you'd pretty much seen every date that they'd played."
Now, responding to the comments in an interview with news.com.au, Turner said: "They should have been out trying to get laid instead of watching us every night."
He continued: "I don't think that's fair [to call it synchronised]. There comes a time on a tour when something works and you tend to leave it alone. We have been changing it around a little bit. You can't mess around with it too much. It's almost like the show isn't designed to be watched by the same person every night.
Turner added: "Nowadays people share the setlists, but I'm by no means fucking phoning it in. It's not like we have [pre-recorded] tracks, we're up there fucking doing it."
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Arctic Monkeys will headline Reading and Leeds festival this summer and play two huge gigs at London's Finsbury Park on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 May, 2014. Tickets to all shows are on sale now. For more information visit Gigwise tickets.
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