Album: Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What Im Not, released 2006 Wait a minute, San Francisco? How on earth does that make for an unusual location?! you might well ask. But as with all the best musical nuggets, you have to look closer to unravel the answers. Not just a signature track for the band, but for the garage rock genre, Fake Tales Of San Francisco bemoans the attitude of a fictional band whose whole image is defined by the United States of America, despite having never set foot across the Atlantic themselves. Frontman Alex Turner even goes as far as denouncing one of the members, accusing him by saying he talks of San Francisco, hes from Hunters Bar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WrIN7xhEks A far cry from the city-county of California, Hunters Bar is actually a locale in south-west Sheffield, the home city of the Arctic Monkeys. In particular, the name refers to a roundabout on Ecclesall Road and a former toll bar. Its hardly the glitz and glamour of the western coast of North America, but that is exactly what Turner wants to conjure up; just like Blur and East Grinstead, Arctic Monkeys pinpoint Hunters Bar as a location that very much fits into the mentality of everyday suburbia. However, it is the act of singling it out that draws attention to it and makes it all the more unusual.
English graduate from the South East, writing my way through my twenties. Also a YouTube partner, playing games and filming vlogs under "ZeppelinG1993." Middle name Zeppelin (after the band, not the blimp), so destined to be a music lover.
