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Tom Rowley on how playing with Arctic Monkeys shaped his debut album: "You come across some fucking mad people"

NME·Andrew Trendell·about 1 month ago
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Milburn’s   Tom Rowley has spoken to NME about how his time as a touring member of Arctic Monkeys inspired his debut solo album ‘Moses And The Drones’, which features a song produced by Alex Turner . READ MORE: Every Arctic Monkeys song ranked in order of greatness As a founding member of Milburn in the early ’00s, Rowley was a central figure in the Sheffield indie scene that also birthed the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Reverend & The Makers. “Everything was unknown back then at that age,” Rowley told NME when he met us in a pub near King’s Cross in London. “It was just, ‘I like playing music, you like playing music, shall we just hang out together?’ It was just exciting. People did look out for each other. Then things started kicking off. It’s all a bit of a blur after that.” After releasing their first two albums, ‘Well Well Well’ and ‘These Are The Facts’, Milburn split in 2008, leaving Rowley at something of a loose end.…

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