English indie rockers Arctic Monkeys have announced that they’ll be taking a year and a half long break from recording new material, with frontman Alex Turner claiming that it was too “hard to do the old chip shop rock'n'roll”.
Turner also revealed that the band wouldn’t be writing on the road like they used to, according to an interview with The Sun. It comes after the band released their fourth studio album ‘Suck It and See’, which came out on June the 6th.
“I don't really write on the road anymore,” admitted Turner. “We come up with a few ideas on sound-checks and that but I have written too many terrible lyrics touring around. As yet there is no plan to return to the studio next year; we're keeping our heads down.
“It's hard to do the old chip shop rock'n'roll. After you've done it once, you don't sort of hang around that many chippies any more. I think it's natural, I couldn't ever write about my surroundings in the same way as I did back then.”
In other Arctic Monkeys news, the band are expected to release a DVD of their two performances at Sheffield’s Don Valley Bowl in the near future.
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