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Arctic Monkeys - Belfast 16/10/23

  Arctic Monkeys returned to Belfast on Monday night for the first time since 2009, their sound has grown up a lot in the intervening years and they may have even lost a few fans in between but the crowd in the sold out SSE Arena were there for all the music from a career that has spanned more than 20 years. Young and old(er) cheered them on to the stage accompanied by the sci-fi sounds that have infected their two most recent albums. They opened with the cinematic “Sculptures of Anything Goes” from 2022’s The Car, the music may have matured but the lyrics still paint pictures “…village coffee mornings with not long since retired spies, now that’s my idea of a good time…”. The fans in the arena belt out the next line with lead singer Alex Turner “…flash that angle grinder smile, gasp and roll your eyes…” There was a lot of eye rolling when The Monkey’s doubled down on their 2018 change of direction album – Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino then following up with a continuation in the f