for the summer of 2007. In addition, the band headlined the Glastonbury Festival in June and the first ever Friday at T in the Park in July. Old Trafford Cricket Ground On Saturday 28 July and Sunday 29 July 2007 the band played two sell out shows at the 55,000 capacity Lancashire County Cricket Club in Manchester. Billed as being the group's own 'mini-festivals' both date saw support sets for Supergrass, The Coral, Amy Winehouse and Japanese Beatles tribute act The Parrots. The shows were hailed as 'the gigs of a generation' by NME and were even compared to Oasis' record-breaking shows at Knebworth House in 1996 and The Stone Roses' one-off gig at Spike Island in 1990. Despite the acclaim the gigs were not without their faults. On the Saturday, sound problems occurred during 'Balaclava' forcing the band to stop playing halfway through. Whilst on the Sunday the band had to stop performing twice during 'Still Take You Home' and 'Dancing Shoes' due to crushing at the front of the barriers. Despite these minor fluctuations, it is clear that the LCCG concerts cemented Arctic Monkeys' status as the defining band of their generation, as Oasis and the Stone Roses had done before them. June 2007 US/Canadian tour The band began their first long North American tour in June 2007, playing headlining gigs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., amongst others. The band was one of three Sheffield-based bands playing at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. In addition to these, the band was the opening act for Oasis show at the 19,800-capacity Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Also 28 June 2007 they played in the Hamburg Stadtpark with The Coral Opening for them August 2007 Oceania and Asia mini tour Arctic Monkeys played at Byron Bay's music festival Splendour in the Grass. They played the Summer Sonic Festival, split between Osaka and Tokyo, Japan. September 2007 North America tour October 2007 South America mini tour The band performed in Buenos Aires, Argentina at Luna Park's stadium. The band also played in three cities of Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Curitiba November/December 2007 UK tour In December, Arctic Monkeys made a welcome return to Britain, playing a relatively small tour of large venues across the nation. They played Alexandra Palace in London twice, G-Mex in Manchester