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Ex-Arctic Monkeys<\/a> bassist Andy Nicholson has revealed that his new photo book of the group made his former bandmates cry.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0We looked good on the dancefloor! Arctic Monkeys\u2019 chaotic early gigs remembered by fans<\/a><\/p>\n

Nicholson is set to release I Bet This Looks Good On Your Coffee Table<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0a 175-page collection of the former bassist\u2019s candid moments taken of the band between 2005 and 2007.<\/p>\n

The A4 hardback features the Sheffield band in cramped dressing rooms, on tour buses, in recording sessions and making their Saturday Night Live<\/a> debut in 2006.<\/p>\n

Speaking about his book to Radio X<\/a>, Nicholson said: \u201cWe talk quite a lot. I sent them an early copy of the book and got some great replies. [Drummer] Matt [Helders]<\/a> said it made him cry. [Guitarist] Jamie [Cook] weren\u2019t far behind. I showed it Al[ex Turner<\/a>] and some of the names that were suggested for the working titles, Al came up with a couple on them. He said, \u2018Good job the music was good, because we didn\u2019t look too good either.’\u201d<\/p>\n

After taking a three-week break from touring commitments in 2006,\u00a0Nicholson was permanently replaced by\u00a0Nick O\u2019Malley<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 who had initially joined the Monkeys on a\u00a0temporary basis.<\/p>\n

Since then, he\u2019s worked as a musician, DJ, record producer, and photographer \u2013 forming the band Mongrel,<\/a>\u00a0as well as briefly joining\u00a0Reverend & The Makers<\/a>,\u00a0Lords of Flatbush and hip-hop collective Clubs & Spades, as well as producing for\u00a0Toddla T<\/a>, Swindle, Tom Prior and Terri Walker among others. He also performed\u00a0under<\/a> his Goldteeth<\/a> moniker.<\/p>\n

Asked what caused his departure, he told Radio X: \u201cIt was a difference of reasons. I had family stuff going on, they decided to take Nick on tour, came back, decided to keep Nick, so I wasn\u2019t in there anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a few years, maybe four, five years of us parting ways and not really talking a lot, we kind of started to link back up and started to have these serious grown up conversations and really rebuilt our friendship from there and everything\u2019s been fine since then.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicholson previously said in 2019 that he contemplated suicide as the following three years led him down a \u201cdark\u201d path<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very close to not being here, do you know what I mean?\u201d he said at the time. \u201cAnd then managing to talk to people, and getting through it\u2026 time heals everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicholson added: \u201cI do remember watching them headline Glastonbury [2007] on television, and I was just sat at home on my own\u2026 just watching it. Just crying watching them headline. Can you imagine what that\u2019s like?\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking about his new book now, Nicholson said: \u201cIt\u2019s kind of nice because within these photos, I think everybody but us four got to see what this band did and where it went from the outside and it was like, \u2018Wow they\u2019re doing this and they\u2019re doing that, Saturday Night Live and [Later\u2026with] Jools Holland and all these amazing things\u2019. I think the photos are quite revealing as to how normal things really were.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cLooking back at these photos you actually get a bit of a grasp of how young we actually were. When you\u2019re 19 you think you\u2019re a grown up, when you\u2019re 19 you\u2019re a child. The positions we got put in as children really and still learning to be adults, moving forward and making big decisions were crazy, [it was a] crazy situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

There hasn\u2019t been a new album from the Sheffield band since their last album, \u2018The Car\u2019 dropped at the end of 2022 and was given a glowing five-star review by\u00a0NME<\/a>, which described it as \u201ca swashbuckling, strings-fuelled epic\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-Arctic Monkeys bassist Andy Nicholson has revealed that his new photo book of the group made his former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,3583,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-275670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-indie","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}