The Hives have referred to as their current tour mates Arctic Monkeys “the one good actually well-liked band” in a brand new interview with NME.
The Swedish group supported the Sheffield band on their current UK stadium tour, with drummer Matt Helders calling them “a lot enjoyable to look at” final 12 months.
Chatting with NME for the newest interview within the In Dialog video collection, Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist responded to different feedback from Helders, by which he cited The Hives as one in every of Arctic Monkeys first actual inspirations. “They advised us that the primary week or month that they began the band, they noticed The Hives and The Strokes and that was the factor that basically began it off for them,” the frontman stated.
“We toured with them in South America about 10 years in the past and had a good time, so I’m actually joyful they needed us again. It’s a extremely nice tour to be on; it’s actually enjoyable. I believe Arctic Monkeys are fucking superb. They’re the one good actually well-liked band – and that’s not straightforward to do.”
Echoing the Swedish band’s feedback, Blur’s Damon Albarn has additionally praised the Alex Turner-led act. “For me, the final nice guitar band would have been Arctic Monkeys and I don’t actually know if there’s something pretty much as good as that since,” he stated throughout an look on the Damaged File podcast.
Elsewhere in The Hives interview, Almqvist and guitarist Nicholaus Arson mentioned making their return with a brand new album 11 years after their final. ‘The Dying Of Randy Fitzsimmons’ will arrive in August 11.
“You need to come again with a bang, you don’t need to come again with ‘grownup rock’,” Arson stated of the high-energy strategy the band took on the brand new file.
“Think about ‘The Hives have been away from 10 years and now they’ve matured’,” Almqvist defined. “It was vital to go the other approach. This needs to be fucking silly and infantile, even worse than we’ve been earlier than!”
