Alex Turner Arctic Monkeys in mid-2002. In the early days of the band, Helders has recalled that Turner "wasn’t necessarily going to be the singer" but was the obvious candidate for lyricist: "I knew he had a thing for words." Before playing a live show, the band rehearsed for a year in both Turner and Helders' garages and, later, at an unused warehouse in Wath. Turner gradually began to share lyrics with his bandmates. According to Helders' mother, who drove the teenagers to and from their rehearsal space three times a week: "If they knew you were there, they would just stop
Jamie Cook (rower) the Great Britain's under-23 men's eight crew at the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria. One year later he represented the under-23 men's fours at 2014 World Rowing Championships in Varese, Italy. In 2017 he was named in the Oxford eight for the third time and will take part in the 2017 boat race alongside his brother Ollie and fellow Old Abingdonian Vassilis Ragoussis. Oxford won the race. Jamie Cook (rower) James Edward Timothy Cook (born 1992) is a British rower. Whilst in education at Abingdon School he gained colours for the Abingdon School Boat Club. After leaving Abingdon