Bet you look good on the dancefloor...
The Monkeys are pretty good, I'd say Strokes meets Franz Ferdinand. The album is due out today in the UK but It's already been leaked and hit the internet for downloading.
The vocalist has a pretty good vocal delivery style the songs have plenty of guitar riffs and they write popular catchy stuff. I had an mp3 comp a friend did for me back end of last year but the quality was pretty bad so I never kept it, I suppose most of it will turn up on the album.
They are hyped as this years next big thing but thinking about it they were also hyped as the next big thing in 2005 but kinda hard to do when you don't have an album out. They hit the number one over Christmas with the single Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor. The good thing about them is they've done most of their PR work via word of mouth and over the internet, but I guess it's maybe jumped back and bit them now.
Cheers
Mike
They sold 120,000 copies of their new record....
all thanks to their innovative marketing approach via the internet. I just read a story about them in my local rag, and you have to admit that the number of sales is quite impressive fomr a band with virtually no following or media hype, or at least none that I've seen.
Swish