There are few question marks remaining over Arctic Monkeys and their place among the best British acts of all time, at this stage. Few bands reinvent themselves to the extent that they have across their discography and fewer still manage to pull it off. That said, after AM (their fifth album) marked a second peak in their popularity back in 2013, the subsequent releases Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino and most-recently The Car have been a bit too leftfield or subdued for some. How do you translate all of this into a live show successfully?
The answer, it turns out, is to put on a show much more crowd-pleasing than those creative-but-less-immediate albums might suggest. There's more from AM than The Car crammed into this setlist, and every era from their history is well-represented. It's an approach that suggests a keen awareness of the need to strike the right balance between new and old.
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