While Daniel Radcliffe was becoming a household name as the star of Harry Potter, Arctic Monkeys were becoming one of the biggest British rock bands in the world. The 36-year-old actor recalled getting to see them at the Reading Festival in 2006 when they were just starting to blow up, and he still considers it the "best concert" he's seen to this day.
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“I went to the Reading Festival in [when I was] 16, and Arctic Monkeys were playing in a tent," he told Rolling Stone in February 2026. "They were halfway up the bill of the smallest tent of the festival because they were not yet famous, except they were." The festival underestimated the popularity of the "I Wanna Be Yours" rockers, but Radcliffe was lucky enough to get into the tent.
“The album [Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not] wasn’t out, but if you were illegally downloading music, which, I’m sorry, I did, you could have listened to the whole thing," he remembered.
"Watching this band right on the cusp of becoming massive, where they were in a tent that was probably for a few thousand people, and there were probably like 10,000 people trying to cram in there, that was really cool," he concluded.
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The band, which features singer and guitarist Alex Turner, drummer and vocalist Matt Helders, guitarist Jamie Cook and bassist Nick O'Malley, blew up after that first album, even being named the top-streamed rock band to come out of a garage and having three of their records top Billboard's Top Rock Albums charts, including The Car, Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino, and AM.
Radcliffe is living a musical life himself. Though he's most famous for his role as Harry Potter (which he is "at peace" with), he's also made a name for himself on Broadway. After his Broadway debut in Equus in 2008, he appeared in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 2011, The Cripple of Inishmaan in 2014, The Lifespan of a Face in 2018, and Merrily We Roll Along in 2023 and 2024, for which he won a Tony Awrd as Charley Kringas.
Now, he's in rehearsals for his latest Broadway production: a one-man show called Every Brilliant Thing. The musical debuts on Feb. 21 and will run for 13 weeks until May 24.
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