Arctic Monkeys plan big screen gigs

5:24am Sunday 12th October 2008

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Arctic Monkeys are giving fans the chance to see their new DVD on the big screen.

Arctic Monkeys At The Apollo will be screened at 33 Vue cinemas across the country for one night only on Tuesday October 14.

The gig was filmed by Richard Ayoade at the last show of the band's 2007 tour in Manchester and is being released on DVD on November 3.

Frontman Alex Turner revealed why they collaborated with Richard, saying: "He did the video for Fluorescent Adolescent, and it's just grown stronger ever since."

Asked why they waited until now in their career to do a live DVD, Nick O'Malley said: "It just felt right really. We've got our second album, so it felt like we'd got enough songs. We'd never seen ourselves playing live either."

Matt Helders added: "It's like D:Ream said, things can only get better! We were probably at our best. If we'd done it earlier on, we would have looked back and though 'That were c**p'. We'll probably look back at this and think we could be better in a year's time."

But Alex confessed he hated watching himself talking to the crowd.

He said: "Whenever I speak, that's the hardest bit of this film for me to watch. When I watch them, I wish each of them had been a sentence shorter, or just not happened at all."

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