The Arctic Monkeys National Holiday?

Speaking to the NME this week, the band is quickly asked why they chose to release their sophomore LP just 15 months after their massively successful debut.

The band claims: "Ultimately, we thought if we carried that on for a few years it might become like a Bank Holiday or something. It'd be a national holiday! The first one came out February 12 or something (it actually came out on January 30 after being brought forward a week) so we were trying to get this one to come out February 12, but a year later. We missed it by two months, we were fucking about."

Ha! Imagine little British kids getting the day off school for National Arctic Monkeys Day. How would one celebrate this exactly, besides going out and buying their latest record? By wearing monkey t-shirts/costumes and singing 'When The Sun Goes Down' to strangers on the subway? You got me.

Holiday or not, the band will be traveling all over North America this spring, check out those tour stops here.

MP3: Arctic Monkeys - Leave Before The Lights Come On