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16th of December, 2006 – Deltasonic Christmas Party in Liverpool. Arctic Monkeys joined The Little Flames on stage for a performance of the song that became in some ways a unifying one for the two bands, "Put Your Dukes Up John".

NME, 17 December 2006: Arctic Monkeys joined Little Flames at the Deltasonic Christmas Party in Liverpool last night on 16 December. Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Matt Helders and Nick O'Malley took to the stage to add additional vocals, guitar, drums and bass to the final Scouse punk-popsters song "Put Your Dukes Up John".

"Now we will be joined by our little cousins," – said Little Flames singer Eva Petersen. "It will sound better with Arctic monkeys. "

Photos by Mark McNulty and stagheadandmonster

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In the summer 2006 The Little Flames went to Sweden to record their debut LP "The Day Is Not Today".

Miles remembers this time with warmth now, but in an interview in 2011 for Mojo, he said that then, due to fatigue and the demands of the label, he wanted to give up everything, and in general, he wanted to fulfill his dream – to become a frontman (one young man from Sheffield very strongly supported this idea) :

"...The Little Flames were grinding on, suffering apparent interference from their label Deltasonc who demanded that they repeatedly re-record their still-unreleased debut album. One night, stuck in a low in a Swedish recording studio on a never-ending session, he called Turner and told him he was thinking about quitting the band. "I said to him, This is draining the life out of me for music," he recalls. "He was like, 'Fucking do it, man, do it."

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27th of April, 2006 – the end of the AM and The Little Flames joint tour. Brixton Academy (O2 Brixton Academy), London.

Photos by Andy Paradise

"Me, Joe Rascal, John Cooper Clark and MilesKaneMusic many many moons ago" (from Jon McClure IG)

Also this photo was taken in O2 Brixton Academy dressing room

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26th of April, 2006 – gig at Cambridge Corn Exchange. Miles in the photo modestly showed us only his elbow, leg and a piece of guitar. Bless him!

Source: duanos00

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19th of April, 2006 – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall. The Little Flames with Arctic Monkeys again. "Next up we had Liverpool's The Little Flames, whom Alex Turner has repeatedly praised in interviews. Now, I’m not one to question his taste..." (reviewed by 'Chris' from BBC)

"06 when the little flames supported arcticmonkeys" (from Alfie Skelly IG)

23th of April – The Little Flames at Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, as a support band. Photo by Christian Petersen

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THE STORY OF MILEX Folks, next was April 15, 2006. Milex as AM and The Little Flames at 02 Academy Newcastle earlier (until 2008) as Carling Academy Newcastle or Wolverhampton Civic April 19. But we don’t care about these numbers. What really matters to us is that Miles’s head has moved to Alex’s shoulder, isn’t it? 😉 To be continued…

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In April 2006, AM continued their tour with The Little Flames. And our boys were together again.

April 13, 2006, Rock City, Nottingham. Unfortunately, except for the screen about the joint gig, there is nothing.

But look what we had on April 14, 2006! This is definitely not February 14?! This is definitely not Valentine's Day? 😉😊 Milex cheek to cheek (as it should be!) Surrounded by Greg Mighal from The Little Flames and his brother Jay Mighal, manager The Little Flames in Barfly club in Glasgow. After or before the joint gig at 02 Academy.

Photo by Andy Wilsher

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On February 15th, 2006, there was the BRITs, where Arctic Monkeys took an award for a breakthrough, but they weren't at the ceremony. They had a gig at the Guildhall, Porthsmouth.  ...On which Alex, guess what .. Was in T-shirt of The Little Flames’ merch! Hehe ;)

At that time Miles was in the UK, judging by the information on the screen from The Little Flames’ Management.

So who knows...)

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