There’s This Four-part Series Being Broadcast On BBC Radio 2 This Month (though Online All Four Episodes

There’s this four-part series being broadcast on BBC Radio 2 this month (though online all four episodes are already available) in which “Johnny Marr takes listeners on a journey through Great British bands, spanning from the 1960s to the contemporary era.” In episode one he includes Crying Lightning and says the following about the band and Alex (starts at 28:30):

[Song ends] “Arctic Monkeys, Crying Lightning, from the album Humbug. Well, if we’re discussing great British bands… I mean… what more do you want? Arctic Monkeys. One thing about them… so, if you go to America – anywhere in America, in fact, because they’re pretty big over there – and you mention Arctic Monkeys, I think the first thing people are going to say is that they’re from Britain. They’re synonymous with where they come from… I think they could only come from Britain, and furthermore probably could only come from the North, Sheffield. It’s interesting, I think, that regional thing. But… yeah, proper British band. I played with Alex, with the Shadow Puppets, a couple of times, and he’s as good as you think he is, folks. You learn a lot about someone, standing next to them in front of a bunch of people playing. I found that with quite a few people that I’ve worked with. You really get a sense of them, when you stood next to them when they’re doing what they do. And what struck me the first time I ever played alongside him was… for the first time I realized that he reminds me quite a lot of David Bowie. You just have to trust me on that."

Source: AMUS forum (u/Fleur_aviation) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0023q6l