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Arctic Monkeys Botch New Year's Eve Countdown at Australian Festival

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Australians are always among the first people on the planet to mark the arrival of a new year, but Saturday night, those who rang in 2012 with the Arctic Monkeys had to wait an extra minute for their countdown.

As the NME reports, the Monkeys left the stage at the Falls Festival in Lorne, Victoria, at 11:58PM. The British rockers evidently didn't realize that they were supposed to handle the night's big moment.

"Sorry, we thought someone else had organized a countdown," lead singer Alex Turner said after coming back out at 12:01AM. "Let's do one now then, shall we?"

According to the website Music Feeds, the audience shrugged off the mishap and partied along with Crystal Castles, who took the stage next and undoubtedly got 2012 off to a sweaty, scary start.

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farris

JOY TO THE WORLD!!

January 05 2012 at 1:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
yiyuan.teng

oh well

January 03 2012 at 11:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
oreo cookies

I have heard of The Beatles, but who are these?

January 03 2012 at 8:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
lbhafner

And someone is suppose to care ! ! !

January 03 2012 at 8:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
John

must have been one of those Leap minutes

January 03 2012 at 7:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kltty13

WHA?????????

January 03 2012 at 7:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
joehennes

What? The headline says the band messed but the article says someone else did. I guess even with a non-story like this you can't have a headline that says, "some unknown event manager" botched New Years...

January 03 2012 at 7:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
falco64125

Let's be real here, the time of 12:00am for the moment the new year starts is COMPLETELY arbitrary. Timezones are here for our convenience. So that 12:00pm is midday in California, midday in England, and midday in Japan. The real marker for New Years is when the Earth completes the orbit of the last 365 days and starts another lap around the sun, that happens at the same moment everywhere on the planet.

So missing a countdown by a minute or so means next to nothing.

January 03 2012 at 6:15 PM Report abuse +3 rate up rate down Reply
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Chris

Wrong.

January 03 2012 at 6:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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kimeric800

How is it wrong? Got any proof?

January 03 2012 at 7:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down
Obz3rv3r

Arctic Monkeys' 'Fluorescent Adolescent'. They're just "clowning" around.

January 03 2012 at 6:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gfgarv

doesn't sound like a news story to me. Slow day AOL?

January 03 2012 at 5:45 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply