Kooks hide behind Monkey shield

Stage school kid with his eyes full of stars Luke Pritchard has issued a public note of thanks to the Arctic Monkeys for sparing them the public eye:

"God bless the Arctic Monkeys, because if it wasn't for them we wouldn't have been so shielded. We were so overshadowed by the success (of Whatever People Think I Am, That's What I'm Not) that we crept in behind everybody's back.

"Arctic Monkeys shielded us from getting too much attention."

Luke... does it occur to you that what spared you from being in all the papers and on everyone's lips was not that people were talking about the Arctic Monkeys but... well, they just weren't that interested in you?

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