So we kind of have this feeling that Alex Turner, frontman for UK indie heroes Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets, has kind of an obsession with Australia’s equally heroic Tame Impala.

Turner famously covered Tame Impala’s ‘Feels Like We Only Go Backwards’ for triple j’s Like A Version back in 2014 and he was recently spotted rocking out to the band at Glastonbury.

But if that wasn’t enough to prove Turner’s got Tame Impala-mania, he was recently on stage with the Last Shadow Puppets at Open’er Festival in Gdynia, Poland and improvised a song about the band.

According to an NME reviewer, Turner, bandmate Miles Kane, and co performed a cover of the Bowie classic ‘Moonage Daydream’ to honour the late rock legend, after doing likewise at Glastonbury.

The dark clouds had already begun to swell in the sky by the time the band took to the stage and Turner decided the turbulent weather had less to do with Mother Nature than Kevin Parker.

Following the Bowie cover, Turner improvised a new song, singing, “There’s a storm brewing… there’s a storm brewing in the form of Tame Impala,” proceeding to sing it for the next “several minutes”.

“Kevin Parker controls the weather system around here,” Turner eventually added. Meanwhile, Tame Impala played their own acclaimed set at Open’er despite frontman Parker feeling “sick as a dog”.

Parker spooked quite a few fans when he took to Instagram to share an image of him in an oxygen mask being tended to by Open’er Festival medical staff. However, it seems Parker healed up quick and put on a killer show.

(Photo: Andy Hughes / NME)

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