Alex Turner with Judan Suki at Sheffield's 2fly Studios, Turner asked Alan Smyth if he would produce an Arctic Monkeys demo. Smyth obliged and "thought they definitely had something special going on. I told Alex off for singing in an American voice at that first session." An introduction by Smyth led to the band acquiring a management team, Geoff Barradale and Ian McAndrew. They paid for Arctic Monkeys to record numerous three-song demos in 2003 and 2004. Barradale drove the band around venues in Scotland, the Midlands, and the north of England to establish their reputation as a live band. They handed
Nick Cook (writer) Nick Cook (writer) Nicholas Julian Cook is a consultant to companies in the defence industry on the issue of climate change. He is a British former aviation journalist as well as the author of fiction and non-fiction works. In the 1990s, Cook was the aviation editor of "Jane's Defence Weekly", the international defence journal. He was an aerospace consultant and contributor to the journal from 2002 to 2008. He won four Journalism Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in the Defence, Business, Technology, and Propulsion categories. "The Hunt For Zero Point", published by Century Random House in the UK in