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Arctic Monkeys Botch New Year's Eve Countdown at Australian Festival
- Posted on Jan 3rd 2012 12:00PM by Kenneth Partridge
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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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I have heard of The Beatles, but who are these?
January 03 2012 at 8:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnd someone is suppose to care ! ! !
January 03 2012 at 8:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replymust have been one of those Leap minutes
January 03 2012 at 7:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat? 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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLet'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.
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kimeric800
How is it wrong? Got any proof?
January 03 2012 at 7:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate downArctic Monkeys' 'Fluorescent Adolescent'. They're just "clowning" around.
January 03 2012 at 6:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replydoesn't sound like a news story to me. Slow day AOL?
January 03 2012 at 5:45 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply
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