The Arctic Monkeys have said they won't be at the Brits this week - where they are up for two awards - because they will be busy elsewhere filming a new video for the first single release off their second album. The band assure the Beeb that they aren't snubbing the Brits by not showing up (again - they didn't show up last year either) saying that their schedule just won't allow a trip to West London on Wednesday night. Which is possibly right, though you can't help thinking that if they really wanted to go said schedule could have been arranged differently. We have known the date for this year's awards for some time.
Still, if they don't want to go they don't want to go, fair enough really. And if they'd rather spend their time playing last minute surprise gigs for their home town fans (as they did on Saturday night) than attending large back slapping sessions, well, that's probably to be commended.