thanks to Oh Dearism for this review, whoever you are...x


http://www.ohdearism.com/2011/11/21/music-arrows-of-love/

News: Bob Weston (Shellac), Artrocker, Blue on Blue, Xaviers (Bo Ningen side project), The Babies and more.....

Hey People,

We've set the date to master the album with Bob Weston of Shellac in December.

WE'RE EXCITED.

and even tho we've got a LOAD to do we now have some pretty exciting London shows ahead.

...in different parts of town...

here they are...

Wed Nov 16 - Brixton - The Windmill - with THE BABIES

The Babies are over here from The States for their first UK show. They are made up of members of Vivan Girls and Woods.

Early stagetime - 8:30pm  ---- Tickets £8 (we have a cheap list - send us a msg if you want on)

Facebook Event Link

Fri Nov 18 - Dalston - The Victoria - 'TOUCH ME I'M SICK' GRUNGE NIGHT

That's it, we're gonna get messy and the rest of the night will be dj's playing pure gruuuuunge tunes. 

FREE Entry - 8pm-2am

Facebook Event Link

Fri Nov 25 - Bethnal Green - Sebright Arms - ARTROCKER presents ARROWS OF LOVE 

Whole lineup: ARROWS OF LOVE + BLACK MOTH + KUTOSIS + CUT YOURSELF IN HALF

8pm-2am - Tickets £5 / £4 if u msg us

Facebook Event Link

THUR Nov 25 - Hoxton - The Macbeth - BLUE ON BLUE, ARROWS OF LOVE, XAVIERS 

Blue on Blue includes Dee from EXPERIMENT ON A BIRD IN AN AIRPUMP.

Xaviers is a BO NINGEN-related side project

DJ sets by: SHUGA + SCARLET VALENTINE + CONRAD BLACK

FREE Entry - 8pm-2am

Facebook Event Link

yep, we're going to be making a lot of noise...

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ARROWS OF LOVE

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twitter - http://twitter.com/arrowsoflove

Photos

A couple of photos from the last couple of shows.
You can find more on www.facebook.com/ArrowsOfLoveMusic
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LAST MINUTE GIG ANNOUNCEMENT

BRIXTON - WED 16th at THE WINDMILL.

Arrows of Love will be playing with THE BABIES who are over from the US.
The Babies are made up of members of Vivian Girls and Woods and you can check them out thru the link in the event
early doors - onstage 8:30pm x

Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=316245605058603

THURSDAY FREE SHOW AT DINGWALLS with HOT CLUB DE PARIS

THURSDAY NIGHT WE'RE PLAYING DINGWALLS, with HOT CLUB DE PARIS.
IT'S FREE ENTRY.
WE'RE ON AT 9:30pm
BE THERE!! xx

Day 4 – 14:57pm

Waking up and wondering how the fuck I spent £130 yesterday?

Might check more pockets.

All I have to show for it is 5 unbroken eggs.

Found out if you open your palm and put an egg in it sideways you can squeeze as hard as you like and it won’t break

I had to buy some and try it.

We all tried it.

it actually fuckin works.

Try it.

News from Brighton...

we played with a band called Arkland - a proper nice bunch, and all their friends too.

did the scariest fairground ride ever

now I wanna go again

Lyndsey won 2p on the penny waterfalls.

I did a bucking bronco that span more than it bucked. found muscles I never knew existed

The Rapture came and went, and noone I know got beamed up,

so the party goes on….

actually goes on tonight at Heroes in Kentish Town

we’re playing with some of our favourite bands we know.

if you want a good time, for free, with free food, and you're not a cunt, then come down x

Tour Day 2 of 10 – 4:56am

Long day

Just got in.

Everyone was asleep in the van when I was dropped off.

I’m writing a song that’s floating round my head.

So I’m awake.

Portsmouth was fun.

Radio session was fun.

Lyndsey was uncomfortable in her trousers so borrowed a pair of Alex’s boxers.

we walked into the radio station with her dressed like an 8-year old from the waist down, and the evil guy in Highlander from the waist up.

Was a good look for radio.

Promoters at the venue were awesome.

Gig was heavy.

Broke my guitar.

Made some friends.

Drank too much.

Beat Alex twice at Pool.

Nothing left to report

N x

Tour Day 1 of 10 – 2:16am

So we played with Victorian English Gentleman’s Club tonight at Barfly.

They are fucking good.

if you get a chance go see them on one of their dates this week.

we were lucky we made the gig tho.

spent 4 and a half hours getting back from a radio session in Brighton.

got to the venue 5 minutes before going on stage

worst moment of the day was after 4 hours driving…

we stopped to pick up guitars and amps at my house,

Lyndsey threw the car keys at me,

they went through my hands,

bounced off my body,

assumed slow motion,

and neatly fell down a drain next to the gutter.

It was stunning.

We’d just locked all the equipment in the boot too.

Locked stock and 2 smoking idiots.

luckily it was only 1 metre deep.

coat hanger fishing skills saved the day.

Any deeper and the first day of our tour would have been shit

Weird random thing of the day was getting told our single is going to be backing track to the week’s goal scoring montage on Soccer AM on Sky Sports Saturday morning.

wasn’t expecting that one.

None of us are very good at football.

Actually that’s a lie.

I’m fucking Ace.

N

Tour Day 1 of 10 – 11.51am

Slept terribly.

Open window, neighbourhood sounds, and one of those nights where you know you got to be up early so you keep waking up every 20 minutes.

I feel like shit.

WE got to go to Brighton to do a radio interview and session before coming back to play London tonight.

Lyndsey’s 2 hours late.

Walked into garden barefoot and trod on a snail.

N

New Video and Tourdates....

Hey LoVeRs,

The new ‘SONG ONE’ single is out.

The video is here: http://bit.ly/SongOne_video

And if you want to come to a ReaL GiG then come to one of these:

May 18 LONDON - Barfly (w/ Victorian English Gentleman's Club)
May 19 PORTSMOUTH - Kraken
May 20 LONDON - XFM John Kennedy curates The Tram & Social
May 21 BRIGHTON - Hydrant
May 22 LONDON - Heroes Bar (joined by Antlered Man, Blue on Blue & more)
May 23 COVENTRY - Kasbah
May 24 MANCHESTER - PUMA & VICE at The Deaf Institute (w/Visions of Trees)
May 25 CARDIFF - Buffalo Bar
May 27 WIGAN - The Tudor

Peace Out x

tomorrow £3 guestlist

We just been given a £3 guestllist for tomorrow.
get in touch and let us know how many you need.
we just found this old skool video from when arrows was a revolving band of gypsies.
we're gonna take this next level tomorrow
Peace out.....and let's fuck it up...x

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW6E9lMxN10

Camden Crawl Tipps (c) Neil Anderson - www.wildblanket.com

The Ruckus: Arrows of Love top the Camden Crawl Tips show

Arrows of Love are a far more noisy, rocky band than I would ever normally listen to sat in the comfort of my own living room, but seeing them live I was exhilarated and blown away by their energy. This is a band that is tight as hell live, yet still maintain an energy that goes beyond most bands I have seen. Guitarist Alex spent the majority of the second half of the set playing from the audience, as he threw himself around the floor. Lead singer Nima also jumped into the crowd, strutting about like a true frontman. This Camden Crawl Tips show was a memorable one for sure, and Arrows are ones to watch.

Source: http://bit.ly/The_Ruckus_review

GOLDFRAPP RANT

If you want to hear what UNBELIEVABLE RIP-OFF MERCHANTS GOLDFRAPP are then have a listen to Henry Mancini right here:

http://bit.ly/mancini-song

i'm pretty sure they also ripped off Piero Umiliani, but that's harder to find a link for...you can hear a 29 second link here on amazon's preview:

http://amzn.to/umiliani_short_clip_track4

i might throw up with rage....x

Some Velvet Morning.

This is your song for the day...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4

hmm...

thinkin about album names now...and more and more keep coming back to the same idea...

New Chapter

Arrows of Love - New Chapter

some of you have this figured already...

Arrows was revolving last year.

it was great, but just got too much for sanity..

me, Alex, and our friend Mike met in January, played loud, and turned out Mike was tuned to the same wavelength all along...

so we figured we'd do this thing.

Then we met Lyndsey, who is singing with us, and is a proper sista...

We hit the stage at a friend's night to try it out, and it was like a natural perfect fit.

So now we're owning this thing.

it's exciting. it's early...

We're figuring things out fresh, playing and recording, and there's good things coming.

tonight you can get a glimpse.

We play the Bull & Gate in Kentish Town at 9:45pm

We're even being joined by our old friend Wim on bass for the night.

Tonight is proper family.

Facebook event:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130651927006327

poster art and other things, a guy you should check out.........

yeah so i just want to shout to the world about our friend Piro

you might have seen some of his work on our posters and for the Real Friends single that came out

Here you can check out some of his poster art and other things on his website.

If you ask me the guy is a genius...

www.andreapiro.co.uk

Just a big up to Tom Robinson on BBC6Music who was playing Burn This Town in the early hours this morning. He's asked to have a little chat so you might hear a ramble or a rant on the next show. In the meantime if you wanna see what his shows are all about you can do it using technology...http://lnk.ms/KdqDt

The Wheelbarrow, Sunday 13th Feb

LIVE – ARROWS OF LOVE, WHALES IN CUBICLES, THIS IS LAURA, CLUB L’ENDEAVOUR, ED & ALE

DJ’s – TURBOGEIST, THRUSH METAL, MAHOODY, DANNY BOY

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Right all you romantic bastards.
Come get all fucked up and wave two fingers in the air to St Clinton cards day.
We got loads of great bands, dj's and stella.
From 5pm

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10PM --- THIS IS LAURA
This is Laura are a velvet-glove take on baroque folk and brittle blues, a strikingly original third way between the femme grit of PJ Harvey and the cats-cradle perplexities of CocoRosie and A Hawk And A Hacksaw. They can reduce unsuspected men and women to tears by dint of their sea-shanty, tinderbox of soul-fuelled delights.

http://www.myspace.com/kittyandsarah


9PM – ARROWS OF LOVE
It’s a new fuckin chapter and it’s rockin hard.

"An epileptic fit set to music, it’s wild-eyed and feral, raw and unpolished and all the better for it." MUSIC WEEK

“The sonic attack of At The Drive-In, with nods to Jesus Lizard and Quicksand...” **** ROCK FEEDBACK

“a tangled mess of scrawling feedback, sledgehammer drums and guitars heavy as lead weights fighting tooth and nail for supremacy…. like a paranoia inducing half dream/half nightmare injected directly into your ears, it is at once both entirely disturbing and utterly irresistible.” – JOYZINE

http://www.myspace.com/arrowsoflove


8PM - WHALES IN CUBICLES
"What an absolute cracker...Life Without Buildings sharing stage space with Waterboys, Maccabees, Animal Collective and Biffy. Yes, it is that good."
- Gill Mills - Best of Myspace

We Never Win - "It’s hazy, dusty and angular… almost shoe-gaze… eventually unravelling into a sonic freak-out that holds angst amid Arcade Fire. It’s a very, very well made pop song that cleverly appears to defy any such classification." - Track In the Box

http://www.myspace.com/whalesincubicles


Time tbc – CLUB L’ENDEAVOUR
http://www.myspace.com/clublendeavour

Time tbc ED & ALE
http://www.myspace.com/cakesandaleband



DJ SETS

7:30PM LAURA FRASER from THRUSH METAL

8:30PM LUIS from TURBOGEIST

10:30 till End – MAHOODY and DANNY BOY
- Show quoted text -

'entirely disturbing and utterly irresistible': Joyzine Review

Finishing us off (quite possibly in the literal sense) for this month are Arrows of Love, whose track ‘Real Friends’ is a tangled mess of scrawling feedback, sledgehammer drums and guitars heavy as lead weights fighting tooth and nail for supremacy. “We are your real friends, closer than family” they murmur over the grungy chaos like a paranoia inducing half dream/half nightmare injected directly into your ears, it is at once both entirely disturbing and utterly irresistible.

Joyzine UK: http://www.joyzine.org/singlesjanuary2011.html

Drinking in Camden today

hey just so you know us guys are gonna be drinking in the lock tavern from about 5 today...if anyone wants to come and have a drink with us just come along
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...

‎"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

J. Krishnamurti

rant

I just don't like most bands...

don't tell me that's wrong...

most bands are shit...

The good ones make life feel more real,

like things matter,

if just for a little while.

Selector Top tips for 2011

Selector Radio and Goldierocks top tip Arrows of Love for 2011.
You can check out the Selector Radio show here...
http://www.selector-radio.com/