It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for a bit for about a year. We did our first gig in June 2003 and we played a few gigs in and around Sheffield for a bit then started doing gigs outside of Sheffield about this time last year, recording demos while all this was going on.
Alex TurnerA lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.
Alex TurnerThere have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.
Alex TurnerI saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together; and more and more nowadays I'll have complete songs - chords, lyrics, a melody - and we'll apply to those songs what we feel is required. That has happened much more on Humbug album than on any of the others.
Alex Turner