Jamie Cook using a Gibson SG standard on stage live at Glastonbury on June 2013. Jamie Cook Jamie Robert Cook (born 8 July 1985) is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, with whom he has recorded six studio albums. Originally a next door neighbour of fellow band member Alex Turner, Cook and the other band members picked up their respective instruments and formed the Arctic Monkeys in 2001. He is the son of an engineer. He is the band's most outspoken member, going on
Alex Turner (director) with dialogue." In 2009 Turner returned to the genre with "Red Sands", a psychological thriller starring Shane West, Aldis Hodge, Leonard Roberts, Callum Blue, JK Simmons, Theo Rossi and Noel Gugliemi as US soldiers serving in Afghanistan just after the 2001 US invasion. In a mixed review, Dread Central said, "Director Alex Turner manages to deliver nominal tension and a couple semi-solid scares, but mines no new territory." Alex Turner (director) Alex Turner (born 1971) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter, best known for his work in the horror film genre, including the film "Dead Birds". Turner was