Giclee print edition of 100 on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper

45 x 45 cm (17.7 x 17.7 inches)

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Formed in 2002 in High Green, a suburb of Sheffield next to where I grew up, The Arctic Monkeys have received international fame and success through their seven studio albums.

This was painted in 2006 from attending their homecoming concert the night before the great wave broke, and I bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor soared to number one in the U.K.

I was massively into the Sheffield music scene in the nineties - I used to write gig and album reviews for local magazines. I flexed my fledging artistic muscle and satisfied my teenage fandom by painting portraits of the likes of Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn from pictures in the NME. My GSCE display was like a rouges gallery of Britpop... a lot of the pieces were signed by the artists, either at legitimate interviews or via escapades involving commando rolling back stage at Sheffield's Leadmill with my friends after gigs.

The Arctic Monkeys happened after I'd left Sheffield, but I have an affinity with them as a lot of the people I knew in those days went on to pass the baton to them - discovering them, recording with them, nurturing them, roadying for them, supporting them on tour...

They also have a special place in my heart for taking the Sheffield idiom to places it's never been before. Their track Mardy Bum always makes me smile.