- 06
- Mar
Photos by Kyle Dean Reinford, Video by Abbey Braden
Remember a couple of years ago when Arctic Monkeys came to NYC for a couple of shows and everyone freaked out? Well it's happened again, only this time Alex Turner has a new travelmate, and the shows were just a little lower key (record stores and cake shops instead of Mercurys and Bowerys). The cheeky Monkey's joined up with the Rascals' Miles Kane to form the Last Shadow Puppets, and here they are, USA. Actually, here they are, world: The two shows this week (Wednesday at Brooklyn's Sound Fix Records, Thursday late night at Cake Shop) were the duo's live debut, period. Our friends Abbey and Kyle left impressed and sent over some video and photo souvenirs to rub it in. First up is Abbey's vid of the "The Age Of Understatement," which is the perfect song for the soundtrack of a spaghetti western, were it to be set in London:
Good tune. Obviously the studio version's even better, which you can check via a just released, proper pitchfork.tv-style video at theageoftheunderstatement.com (full screen!). Meanwhile, we've got some more photos and video for you. (UPDATE: And now we've got YouTube of "The Age Of Understatement"'s official vid, too.)