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Alex Turner has revealed that he and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders once dressed up and pretended to be Oasis during school assembly.
In a new interview with US website Pitchfork, Turner reveals that he and Helders performed in front of his primary school, using a tennis racket in place of a guitar.
"So me and Matt and some of our friends put on 'Morning Glory' – we 'played' some tennis racquets and pretended to be Oasis," says Turner. "Matt was Liam Gallagher, he had the bucket hat on. I was the bass player."
He also adds that the performance wasn't as well received as a rival performance by a group of girls pretending to be the Spice Girls, adding: "We were just standing there, doing what Oasis did onstage," he said. "Which was not a great deal. I don't think we got as good a reaction as the Spice Girls."
Alex Turner also names Oasis's 1995 album '(What's The Story) Morning Glory' as one of the records that influenced him as a teenager to pursue a career in music.
"With Oasis, it's just that attitude, like it's resistant against everything else that's going on in music," he says. "I don't know if you can fully understand that - it's like an impulse, innit? Especially at that age, you don't rationalize, 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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