11 Arctic Monkeys moments of 2011
{ FYAM’s favorite moments of the year }

#06: Jamie Cook, matchmaker

We had a lot of good quotes this year—some funny, some deep, some have already been said. I had a couple of other choices of what to pick as the quote, and they’re pretty much all from Alex, save for one from Nick—

• “I’m not miserable, it’s just me face”
• “But what can I say? I’m… fearless” 
• “Any advice I would’ve given to my 19 year old self, I wouldn’t have listened to anyway” 
• “There is always that one band that comes along when you’re 14 or 15 old that manages to hit you in the right way…” 
• “I’m just a pretty shit-hot housewife most days” - Nick O’Malley

I would’ve gone for the ‘one band’ bit but we gushed about that already so, I picked the next best thing that stuck with me this year— Jamie’s from the New York magazine interview, published before they played at Rumsey.

I don’t have a deep/proper reason, really. He just rarely talks and this is just a good, funny and well, really useful advice. That’s about it. Plain and simple.