Arctic Monkeys are an English indie rock band formed in High Green, a suburb of Sheffield, England in 2002. The current members of the band are Alex Turner (lead vocals, lead guitar), Jamie Cook (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Nick O'Malley(bass guitar, backing vocals) and Matt Helders (drums, percussion, backing vocals).

Many people falsely believing that 'Beneath the Boardwalk, but its not true. The band began rehearsing in June 2003, after a few performances they began recording demos. 17 songs were demoed in all and the collection, were burned on to CDs to give away at gigs n was named Beneath the Boardwalk. The first sender, wanting to classify the demos, named them after where he received them, the Boardwalk. Arctic Monkeys released their first single, Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys, featuring the songs Fake Tales of San Francisco and From the Ritz to the Rubble. The band signed to Domino in June 2005 and released their first single with them in October 17, 2005, named I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor. It went straight to #1 on the UK Singles Chart. Their second single, When the Sun Goes Down, released on 16 January 2006, also went straight to #1 on the UK Singles Chart.

Their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, was released on23 January 2006. It became the fastest selling debut album in the UK chart history. Arctic Monkeys then released a five-track EP(extended play) on 24 April 2006, entitled Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?. The band's second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, was released on 23 April 2007. Humbug is the third studio album, released by the band on 19 August 2009. They released their next album, entitled Suck it and See, was released on 6 June 2011.

The band has won 5 Brit awards from 6 nominations, 1 Ivor Novello Awards from 1,  1 Meteor Music Awards from 3, 1 Musco Awards from 1, 12 NME Awards from 21, 1 Plug Awards from 2 and 4 Q Awards from 10 nominations. In all they havre won 26 awards from 48 nominations.