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The Enemy Slam Arctic Monkeys Calling Them 'Dull'

Handbags at the ready...

  • by Scott Colothan
  • Wednesday, January 30, 2008
  • Photo by: Shirlaine Forrest
  • filed in: Indie
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Never one to watch his mouth, The Enemy’s Tom Clarke has hit out at the Arctic Monkeys saying that both their second album and their personas are “dull.”

The Coventry lad was speaking at a time when the Arctic Monkeys’s ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ scooped the best album of the year ahead of Radiohead at the South Bank Awards yesterday, and they also received seven NME Awards nominations.

Despite the plaudits that surround Alex Turner and co., Clarke believes the band are a major letdown. He blasted: “Certain Aspects of their music on the second album, and certain aspects of their personas in the press, are just dull.”

Clearly on a roll, he continued to BBC6music: “That first video that was out (‘I Bet That You Look Good On The Dance Floor’), y’know, I looked at that and I thought; ‘There’s a bunch of working class lads from a proper town playing a tune like they mean it.’”

“It was quality and I went out and bought the first album and I thought it was top – some really good songs on there. And then I was bitterly disappointed when I got the second – just dull.”
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  • Tell you what Tom, how about you fuck off and die (hopefully painfully) and we’ll call it even? Wanker!

    ~ by Noods 1/30/2008

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  • They’re both crap!!

    ~ by Tom York 1/30/2008

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  • lets hope the enemy don’t get round to making a second album!!

    ~ by adam 1/30/2008

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  • Fair comment I say... Their second album is over-rated and not worth all the fuss. Noods, are you fucking Alex Turner?

    ~ by fairpoint 1/30/2008

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  • Nope, I just can’t stand Tom ”no fucking talent so I have to get publicity by slating creditable bands” Clarke. The second AM album is better than the Jam rip-off that Clarke seems to think is original.

    ~ by Noods 1/30/2008

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  • does everyone remember that song by alanis morrisette? it goes a little something like this *clears throat* It’s like rain on your wedding day It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take Who would’ve thought... it figures and so on...... fucking retards.

    ~ by halina 1/30/2008

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  • I can’t stand this guy, he thinks he’s such a fucking working class hero. Alex Turner is ten times the songwriter Clarke will ever be.

    ~ by Claire 1/30/2008

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  • Favourite worst nightmare is my favourite album of all time. End of.

    ~ by tomtristan 1/30/2008

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    • You obviously haven’t heard much music and are probably about 13 years old then!

      ~ by Wordsworth 1/30/2008

  • WOW! This comments section is much better than listening to Clarke slam Turner et al... You saw what happened to Alex Zane... Monkey’s beware!

    ~ by J 1/30/2008

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  • Tom Clarke = a cocksucker!

    ~ by Mighty phil 1/30/2008

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  • Shut up Clarke, you ugly bastard!!

    ~ by Scoot 1/30/2008

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  • Tom Clarke is just dull, no utterly dull. He’s bollocks.

    ~ by Y 1/30/2008

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  • The second album is far too expansive (not saying it’s that expansive, but more so than your average indie band) for his little mind. Where’s this rule that you can only be working class or have to make videos that feature chavs getting arrested to be good? I’d say the opposite was true. Plus, Arctic Monkeys are certainly not working class under traditional definitions. Turner’s parents are both teachers for a start.

    ~ by john 1/30/2008

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    • How does being a teacher make you not working class?

      ~ by Matt Riley 5/29/2008

  • I actually laughed at how ridiculous this is xD When The Enemy produce a half decent tune, i’ll li...wait...s’not likely, is it?

    ~ by IrwinDeep 1/30/2008

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  • ....dear tom clarke, after reading your recent comments about how ’dull’ the arctic monkeys are, maybe you would consider not singing songs about your ’estate’, ’factory work’ and your vauxhall nova. Tom, you cant sprinkle glitter on dogshit.....You are utterly garbage and it looks very much like your face has been set on fire and put out with a pickaxe. Love and best wishes, Allen Ginsberg

    ~ by Joeeeeeeeeee 1/31/2008

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  • tom is a proper gobshite, the more he keeps mouthing off the less i like him

    ~ by clare 1/31/2008

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  • I agree with you, Noods - the Enemy are jealous little shits who rip us off with their Oasis and The Jam tribute act. Long live Arctic Monkeys!!!

    ~ by Matt Riley 5/29/2008

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  • You know what, Tom? NOBODY CARES WHAT YOU THINK!! It really doesn’t make any difference, so keep your ugly mouth shut, you jealous, deluded little prick.

    ~ by Josh D 6/11/2008

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  • Tom Clarke - what a shit slinger. Such a jealous and talentless thing. Arctic Monkeys are just great.

    ~ by Chris, Brize Norton, Oxon 7/4/2008

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