Arctic Monkeys review – cheesy irony dissolves into masterful rock'n'roll

Royal Albert Hall, London
With his mocking intros and bingo-hall croon, Alex Turner is not entirely genuine – but this greatest-hits set is the stuff of a bona fide rock powerhouse The Royal Albert Hall, a music hall with ideas about its station, is a weirdly apposite place for the Arctic Monkeys to play. The band’s most celebrated mode is the fast, literate indie-punk of their first LP which modulated into brawny desert blues and then on to soulful, swaggering stadium rock for their