[Inhaler]

History
Formation

In August 2007 NME magazine reported that Arctic Monkeys lead singer Alex Turner and lead singer of then newly formed The Rascals, Miles Kane would be recording an album with James Ford producing and playing drums.[1] Turner and Kane had become friends when Kane's previous band The Little Flames played support for Arctic Monkeys on their 2005 UK tour. The Little Flames also supported Arctic Monkeys on their April 2007 UK tour, when Turner and Kane wrote songs together for a collaborative project.

Their collaboration extended into Arctic Monkeys material, with Kane playing guitar on "505", the closing track of second Arctic Monkeys album Favorite Worst Nightmare and on "Fluorescent Adolescent" B-sides "The Bakery" and "Plastic Tramp". Kane also guested on "505" and "Plastic Tramp" at several Arctic Monkeys gigs in 2007, including the summer mini-festivals at Lancashire County Cricket Club and Arctic Monkeys' 2007 appearance at Glastonbury.

The initial recording of the songs that would eventually form their debut album took place in France in late August 2007 with additional material added between August and December of that year. In December Owen Pallett was appointed to arrange the strings, brass and percussion for the album with the 22-piece London Metropolitan Orchestra. During the recording of the album Turner and Kane hired a documentary film-making team, Luke Sophomore and Joseph Bull, to capture the story of the project.
The Age of the Understatement

On 20 February 2008, the duo revealed they would be known as The Last Shadow Puppets and that their album would be titled The Age of the Understatement and would be released on 21 April 2008. The album went straight to number one in the UK Albums Chart. The first single, "The Age of the Understatement" was released the week before on 14 April, with new song "Two Hearts in Two Weeks" and covers of Billy Fury's "Wondrous Place" and David Bowie's "In the Heat of the Morning" (a song previously mentioned by Turner as a favourite) as b-sides. The duo have said they took inspiration from Scott Walker and early Bowie. As well as this, there are also influences of The Beatles and late 60s/ early 70s progressive rock.

The second single, "Standing Next to Me", was released on 7 July 2008. The album produced a third single, "My Mistakes Were Made for You".

The album was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize but lost out to Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid.
Second album

Although Kane said in an interview with The Sun that The Last Shadow Puppets were looking to record new material in 2009, nothing was subsequently announced during that year and although in a March 2010 interview with Absolute Radio, Alex Turner said that there were no plans, Kane in October 2010 said they would get back together after he was done with his solo project.
Live appearances

The band played their first ever show in Brooklyn, New York at Sound Fix Records on 4 March 2008 playing a second gig at the Lower East Side's Cake Shop the following night.

The Last Shadow Puppets played a short two song set on 5 April at the Lock Tavern in Camden, London. They played "Meeting Place" and "Standing Next to Me" in support of Remi Nicole, who organised the party both to celebrate her birthday and to raise money for MS sufferers.

The band have also performed on Jools Holland's show Later... with Jools Holland, with producer James Ford on drums, Stephen Fretwell on bass, John Ashton on keyboards and Owen Pallett conducting the string accompaniment. The duo also played on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on 5 July.

The band played a secret set at Glastonbury on 28 June 2008 with Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders playing drums on "The Age of the Understatement" and Jack White of The Raconteurs and The White Stripes playing a guitar solo on "Wondrous Place".

On 4 July 2008, they performed Standing Next to Me as part of a birthday present for Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 1. They also performed a cover of Rihanna's SOS (Rescue Me).

The band and a 16 piece orchestra played two intimate live shows as warm up sessions for Reading and Leeds Festivals 2008, at Portsmouth Guildhall and Oxford New Theatre.

In October and November 2008, the band embarked on their first full headlining tour of the UK and US, which was generally well-received by both fans and critics.

Source: Wikipedia

[twinette]

a very interesting post to say that i absolutely love this band! If i should keep only 1 album before moved on a desert island, i'll probably take this one !! (my vinyl version because i'm in love with it )...
and since june 2008, the 18th, my mistakes were made for you is my favorite song. EVER !

thanks to this song (and a performance on a french tv show) i've discovered Arctic Monkeys of course, but Miles Kane and The rascals too... both of them (Alex and Miles) are really great musicians and writers and so, this duo is the best duo ever. I just can't wait for the 2nd album.

and no, i'm not under the influence of illegal material, i'm always like that when i talk about my puppets

[Monique]

I had heard Miles before with the rascals, but I really started to like him even more with Alex, they are awesome together , made for each other I must say! I mean they complement each other so well like some people said before just as John and Paul did( my favourite was George though xd ) and I agree this album was truly great, they became straightaway my favourite band from this era just after a single listen to their first and only album...I can't really choose which one is my favourite, I loved my mistakes..., but then there is separate and ever deadly and calm like you and standing next to me and black plant.. you probably know what I mean !

[twinette]

yeah all their songs are wonderfull !! and the b-sides too...and the cover too...
damn this band is really awesome

[YourOnlyDoll]

i love their b-sides the most.
Gas Dance, Sequels & Hang The Cyst are so amazing.
never thought that two such young lads could make something like this.
and In The Heat of The Morning & Paris Summer are just amazing. (and yes i know they're both covers)

i'm so glad there will be a 2nd album.

[Monique]

when it comes to covers my favourite one is probably memories(Leonard Cohen) , Miles was just so great in this one

[twinette]

my favorite cover is "i want you" (the beatles in case some people didn't know...)
but memories is a great one too! i love when he said "youv'e got a minute left to fall in love"....Miles, i'm already in love with you

[Monique]

yeah, that one is awesome too!... I love the Beatles to death so it's quite hard to please me or find a cover of them that I really really like... but they pulled it off so well, that's why I love TLSP , whatever they touch becomes gold !

[YourOnlyDoll]

oh god yes, i totally forgot about I Want You (She's So Heavy)!
they really did a well job there.
and normally i don't like covers, especially when the covered song is one of my favourites.

[Brandy_and_Coke]

I need a second album badly...

[adam hurst]

i cant wait for the second album just gonna have to wait, least we've got some good album coming out in the meantime

[adam hurst]

a very interesting post to say that i absolutely love this band! If i should keep only 1 album before moved on a desert island, i'll probably take this one !! (my vinyl version because i'm in love with it )...
and since june 2008, the 18th, my mistakes were made for you is my favorite song. EVER !

thanks to this song (and a performance on a french tv show) i've discovered Arctic Monkeys of course, but Miles Kane and The rascals too... both of them (Alex and Miles) are really great musicians and writers and so, this duo is the best duo ever. I just can't wait for the 2nd album.

and no, i'm not under the influence of illegal material, i'm always like that when i talk about my puppets

that very performance on french tv lol got me hooked as well and introduced me too miles, Great musicians i dont think we'll see a greater musical pairing in our lifetime lol

[hangthecyst]

i bet their second album will be great

[adam hurst]

i bet their second album will be great

i agree do ya reckon it will be a similar sounding effort or totally different?

[wim1958]

When these two guys are together there is something happening . You can feel the magic and chemistry . They move me very much with their
melodies and words .
I saw Miles performing for the very first time in Brussels recently and i couldn t believe what i saw and heard .
Absolutely amazing !!!

[adam hurst]

hes a true british rocker!

[Julia]

I found this. I hope it's not to small for reading.

[apollone]

Thanks!!!