Former Arctic Monkeys bassist, Andy Nicholson has said that his new photo book of the group reduced his former bandmates to tears.
Nicholson, who left the band in 2006, is set to release the photo book, I Bet This Looks Good On Your Coffee Table, which is a collection of his candid moments taken from the band between 2005 and 2007.
The book, which has 135 pages, is an A4 hardback featuring the Arctic Monkeys cramped in dressing rooms, on tour buses, working in the studio during recording sessions, as well as making their Saturday Night Debut in 2006. Find out more about this here.
“We talk quite a lot. I sent them an early copy of the book and got some great replies. [Drummer] Matt [Helders] said it made him cry. [Guitarist] Jamie [Cook] weren’t far behind. I showed it Al[ex Turner] and some of the names that were suggested for the working titles, Al came up with a couple on them. He said, ‘Good job the music was good, because we didn’t look too good either", Nicholson told Radio X.
Nicholson took a three week break from touring with the band in 2006, before being permanently replaced by Nick O'Malley, who had initially joined the band on a temporary basis.
Following his departure, Nicholson has worked as a musician, DJ, record producer and photographer, producing for Tom Prior, Toddla T, Swindle and Terri Walker among others. He also formed the band Mongrel, before briefly joining Reverend & The Makers, Lords of Flatbush and hip hop collective Clubs & Spades. He also performed his Goldteeth moniker.
Explaining his departure to Radio X, Nicholson said: “It was a difference of reasons. I had family stuff going on, they decided to take Nick on tour, came back, decided to keep Nick, so I wasn’t in there anymore".
“After a few years, maybe four, five years of us parting ways and not really talking a lot, we kind of started to link back up and started to have these serious grown up conversations and really rebuilt our friendship from there and everything’s been fine since then".
