The next single from Mercury Music Prize nominated Arctic Monkeys will be 'Leave Before The Lights Come On', which will come out on 14 Aug on Domino. On the flipside will be a cover version of 'Baby I Am Yours', originally performed by Barbara Lewis back in the sixties.
That track is a collaboration with the 747s, who have told CMU how the two bands came to work together. Singer and guitarist Oisin Leech says: "Arctic Monkeys first heard us when they were working on their first tracks with Mike Crossey in Liverpool. He had been working with us in the same studio and played the band some of our tracks which they thought were 'really cool', especially 'Set Me Free'. Then we met the Arctic Monkeys at Reading and Leeds festival last year and got on really well. Alex phoned Mike and asked him to ask us if we'd like to collaborate on a Barbara Lewis cover for their next b-side. We were in the studio in London so we worked out the harmonies. When we called Alex Turner back to accept the offer he was onstage in Japan so we left him a voicemail singing the harmonies down the phone. He just texted back 'incredible'."
Unfortunately 747s guitarist Freddie Stitz couldn't participate in the recording of the track, which includes Oisin on vocals for the second verse, because he is, as previously reported, currently suffering from the chicken pox.