The Sun Goes Down On Arctic Monkeys DVD

Arctic Monkeys will release a DVD on May 9 featuring two short films inspired by the group's song, "When The Sun Goes Down."

The two films, Scummy Man and Just Another Day, tell the story of the song's prostitute protagonist Nina (played by Lauren Socha) and what happens in her life. The other character, the Scummy Man, is played by Stephen Graham (Snatch, Gangs Of New York). The shorts were written and directed by Paul Fraser and shot entirely in Super 16mm by Danny Cohen in Sheffield, England.

The DVD, which will be released by Domino, also features the music promo for "When The Sun Goes Down."The Monkeys are scheduled to appear on the March 11 episode of Saturday Night Live before kicking off a North American tour in San Francisco two nights later. The group will play two Toronto shows: March 20 supporting Oasis at the Air Canada Centre; and headlining their own show the following evening at the Phoenix Concert Theatre.

The band's Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not debut has sold respectably in North America, but they're still not the phenomenon that they are in the U.K. where they broke first-week sales records, or in Australia, where the disc also debuted at #1.