Arctic Monkeys Suffer Technical Hitch

Returning indie giants Arctic Monkeys have suffered from a technical hitch at Open'er festival.

Arctic Monkeys are on the comeback trail. After over two years out of commission, the band are back with new material and a thirst for success. With their third album 'Humbug' already in the bag the group are preparing for a series of festival dates.

Keeping their summer activities down to a minimum, Arctic Monkeys are set to play only a handful of festivals. Due to headline Reading and Leeds in Britain, the band have also confirmed dates at EXIT and Open'er.

Arctic Monkeys recently headlined the Open'er festival in Poland. A rapidly emerging new event, the band chose to unveil several tracks from their forthcoming album 'Humbug'. Produced by Josh Homme, the album is one of the year's most anticipated releases.

The band opened with 'Pretty Visitors' a track from their forthcoming third album. The crowd reacted in a frenzy, chanting 'Arctic Monkeys!' between songs. However half way during the set disaster struck, with power cutting out from the main stage.

The monitors were unaffected, however, so the group carried on playing oblivious to the problem. After being ushered off stage Arctic Monkeys returned ten minutes later with singer Alex Turner commenting "I'm ever so sorry about that everybody... We didn’t realise!"

Rampaging through their set Arctic Monkeys played a series of new tracks such as 'Crying Lightning', 'Potion Approaching' and 'Secret Door'.

The band ended their set with '505' - the song which ends their previous album 'Favourite Worst Nightmare'. Received rapturously by the crowd, Arctic Monkeys left the stage to huge screams by an audience not put off by their earlier technical troubles.

Arctic Monkeys are set to play EXIT this month, before releasing their new album 'Humbug' on August 24th.

Arctic Monkeys played the following set:

'Pretty Visitors'
'This House Is A Circus'
'Brianstorm'
'The View From The Afternoon'
'Still Take You Home"
’Da Frame 2R'
'Crying Lightning'
'Flourescent Adolescent'
'If You Were There, Beware'
'When The Sun Goes Down'
'From The Ritz To Rubble'
'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'
'Potion Approaching'
'Leave Before The Lights Come On'
'Only Ones Who Know'
'Do Me A Favour'
'Secret Door'
'505'