Video: Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning (Live Sydney, January 2009) NEW!

A bunch of the new Arctic Monkeys tunes surfacing lately have been terrible quality bootlegs, but this clip of "Crying Lightning" from the Big Day Out festival in Sydney is the first tolerable glimpse of the band's new direction. Having holed up in the studio with Queens of the Stoneage frontman Josh Homme doesn't seem to have had a huge impact on Alex Turner's writing style, though he's definitely experimenting with more complicated arrangements and a markedly slower pace. For me, the Arctic Monkeys only get better with age, but I know a chunk [...]

The first decent quality version of their initial tracks. Crying Lightning I've heard some of the recent live records, but they've hurt my ears too much to bear listening to them.

A live version of 'Crying Lightning' has surfaced on-line. You can watch the video of it right now.