Some years ago, a friend sent me an mp3 - 'Mardy Bum' - over MSN.  A couple of months later, Mark 'The Sheriff' Bull linked me to a bunch of songs he'd hosted on his website.  Not long after that, I saw Arctic Monkeys for the first time, upstairs at the Barfly in Glasgow.

It was love at first listen.

I decided to buy as many gig tickets as a poor student could afford.  I hopped on the National Express and old faithful Megabus, taking in Sheffield, Newcastle, Edinburgh... making good friends along the way.

I spent 4 hours a day on the Arctic Monkeys message forums.  I got up at 5 in the morning to catch a cheap busses.  I slept in dingy hotels and on peoples' floors.  I got drunk.  I danced, soaked in other peoples' beer and urine.

This website is an artifact of those times.

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