Arctic Monkeys ID'ed at club

It seems Mercury Music Award-winners Arctic Monkeys find it more difficult to get into nightclubs than win prestigious music business prizes.

The Sheffield band scooped the top award on Tuesday night, but it was the partying afterwards where they encountered trouble.

Singer Alex Turner, 20, guitarist Jamie Cook, 21, and drummer Matt Helders, 20, were knocked back by bouncers at London's swanky Met Bar for not looking old enough.

The fresh-faced lads were embarrassed when they were asked to show their ID at the door, before someone finally realised who they were.

Eventually, the group were allowed into the trendy club - and quaffed champagne with radio presenter Jo Whiley, US band The Killers and fellow Mercury nominees Muse.

Critics were shocked when the Monkeys won the music prize earlier this week, beating the likes of Richard Hawley, Thom Yorke, Sway and Zoe Rahman.

But a Mercury source said: "It was by no means a fix. The Arctic Monkeys broke all records with their debut album."document.write(unescape("