Beneath the Boardwalk

Beneath the Boardwalk is a collection of demos and otherwise unreleased songs that were burned onto CD’s and given away for free at the band’s early gigs.

While not technically an official album, the collection of songs was shared around fans in the early days of Arctic Monkeys when a camera-man for the Monkeys uploaded the tracks to the internet from his CD he received at a gig in a Sheffield club called the “Boardwalk”, hence the name.

In a 2005 interview, Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders expressed his gratitude for the collection, saying:

It made the gigs better, because people knew the words and came and sang along. We can’t complain about it.