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Fact #112811

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Short story:

Arctic Monkeys play their first-ever live gig, at The Grapes, Sheffield, UK. They play mostly cover versions, for which they are paid £27.

Full article:

Matt Helders (drummer) : We used to record demos and then just burn them onto CDs and give them away at gigs. Obviously there weren't many demos available, so people used to share them on the Internet, which was a good way for everyone to hear it. So we used to share — not us personally, we don't even know how to do it — but fans did. There's a guy who has come along to film us — two guys, actually; one of them is the main guy who put the songs on the Internet. So the fans just used to send them to each other, which didn't bother us because we never made those demos to make money or anything. We were giving them away free anyway — that was a better way for people to hear them. And it made the gigs better, because people knew the words and came and sang along. We can't complain about it.
(Source : interview in Prefix Magazine, 2005)