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Arctic Monkeys’ Matt Helders says playing older songs feels like “karaoke”

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"I'd rather they just have the memory of a version where we really meant it." Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders has said that the band are often reluctant to play their older material because it feels like “doing karaoke.” In a new interview with comedian James Veitch, Helders said that it was better that fans retained the “memory” of an older performance, as opposed to playing the track just to satisfy their demand. “Some of it feels fine to still play, some of it feels like we’re doing karaoke of our own songs,” Helders said of their older material from albums including 2006 debut ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.’ “[It] Feel like a caricature.

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