Good bye 2013

So time's nearly up for the year. Thanks everyone who's helped us out in 2013, especially Edils Recordings for putting out "Overlapping Lives". If you've got some last minute Christmas shopping I'm sure your nearest and dearest would love a copy. We've got a few things planned for 2014 but we'll fill you in when everything's ready, until then here's our top records of 2013, see you in 2014:

Russell

1. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
   
2. Thundercat - Apocalypse
3. Oliver Wilde - A Brief Introduction to Unnatural Light Years
4. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
5. Deerhunter - Monomania
6. Oneohtrix Point Never - R+7
7. Tiny Isles - The Long Seasoned Sleep
   
8. Charles Bradley - Victim of Love
9. Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
10. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II

Tom

1.  Deerhunter - Monomania
2.  The Night Marchers - Allez Allez
3.  Gauntlet Hair - Stills
4. Charles Bradley - Victim Of Love
5. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
6. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
7. Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return
8. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
9. Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin 
10. Bleached - Ride Yourself

Scavenger Birds Video

"Overlapping Lives" is out tomorrow, but just before it comes out we have the Scavenger Birds video to show you, directed by our good pal Ash Allen. Enjoy.

Album pre-order / live shows / split with MYSTYRYS

Lots of news everyone!

1) "Overlapping Lives" is now available to pre-order on limited CD & tape from the Edils Recordings bandcamp. Go snap up a copy.

2) We're heading out to play some shows in October / November, and a lot are free entry too. The dates are:

Thursday 3rd October
The Old Blue Last, London
w/ Beliefs, MYSTYRYS, Playlounge
FREE ENTRY

Friday 4th October
West Track Studio, Canterbury
w/ MYSTYRYS

Saturday 5th October
The Pilgrim, Liverpool
w/ Cavalier Song, Puzzle

Saturday 12th October
Fitzherbert's, Brighton
w/ Speak Galactic, MYSTYRYS, Merlin Tonto
FREE ENTRY

Saturday 2nd November
Dia De Muertos Halloween Party @ Contemporary, Nottingham
w/ White Finger, Moscow Youth Cult, I Am Lono, Nordenfelt
FREE ENTRY

3) We will be releasing a split single our pals MYSTYRYS on their Psychic Healing Network. It will be available on download and limited tape. The tape comes out on October 7th but you can check out the tracks now right here. We have also done a bonus cover of MYSTYRYS song "Normals", and they've covered our song "Gold Leaf", which are also available here.

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"Overlapping Lives" will be released on September 30th

The new album "Overlapping Lives" will be released on September 30th on Edils Records on CD, tape and digital download. YEAH! You can download the free preview track "Figure 8" from our Bandcamp right now : www.softarrows.bandcamp.com/album/figure-8

Last minute show in London tonight

Hey London people, we're hitting the city for a last minute show tonight at The Shacklewell Arms with MYSTYRYS and Here Lies Goliath. It's free entry too so come down if you can! x

Tonight...

We played a last minute show with Deerhoof. That was pretty cool. Here's a shot of us soundchecking, taken by the lovely dudes in So Cow. Big ol' place.

v.i.d.e.o.

Here we are playing "Figure 8", Bat Signal", "Dry Heaves" & "Mothership" at the One Inch Badge / Rockfeedback party at the Great Escape Fringe. Errr...... yeah....

Figure 8

In the words of the Beastie Boys: "This next one is the first song on our new album". You can download "Figure 8" for free too. More info on the album soon.

Snow Caps

We're really happy to have a new song out, it's called "Snow Caps" and has been released as part of Art Is Hard Records Postcard Club. This is the first of a lot of new music we'll be putting out in 2013 so stay tuned for more news on that, but until then, check out "Snow Caps".


In other news, we will be play the Green Door Store in Brighton on Friday 5th April as part of a special Talking Heads tribute night. We'll be playing a mix of new our own songs and some Talking Heads covers, which is going to be a lot of fun. Come down if you're about. It starts at 11pm and we're on at 11.30pm... and it's free.

2013

Hey there 2013, how are you doing? We're great thanks. So here's what's up: after we played our last show of 2012 we hightailed it up to London to spend a couple of days recording at Sound Savers. It went awesome and we recorded a lot more than we really thought we would. What will happen to these tracks we recorded? Well, we'll let you know soon.

So what else is going on... well we will play our first show of the year on Feb 22nd at The Green Door Store supporting Paws, which should be all kinds of fun. We will also be heading back to Sound Savers to record some more stuff. What's that for? Well, we'll let you know that soon too.

See ya soon!
Soft Arrows
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show time

Hey out there, we're back from our trip to Belgium & France and had an awesome time. A massive thank you to everyone involved in the shows an to everyone who came and saw us play. We hope to make it back some time in the new year!

So now we are back and are planning to record some new stuff for people to hear in 2013... and we've got a lot to record. We'll keep you posted as things develop, but until then we have a few shows to play. First we're heading to London to play a free show at Catch with our big city pals MYSTYRYS, and after that we will be playing a couple of shows in Brighton, one with our pals Speak Galactic and Cousin, and one with Mac DeMarco, both at the Green Door Store. I think these will be our last shows of 2012, details are bellow....

Wednesday 14th November.Catch, London.
w/ MYSTYRYS
FREE ENTRY

Friday 16th November.

Cupboard Music presents:
HEY! FEVER #1 @ The Green Door Store, Brighton.
w/ Speak Galactic, The Astronauts, The Righteous Ones Of The Blazing Rockets, Redmaxx, Cousin + DJs
FREE ENTRY
Doors 5.30pm / first band 6.00pm
Soft Arrows onstage approx. 6.45pm

Thursday 22nd November.
The Green Door Store, Brighton.
w/ Mac Demarco, TOPS, Bare Pale
Doors 7.30pm / £6 adv.

SHOWS : London / Brighton / Belgium / France

Hey, so we played that show up in London with Ty Segall a few weeks ago, and it was probably our favourite show we've played. Lots of fun. If you were there then thanks for coming. Now we are really in the mood for playing some more shows, which is good because we've got all these booked, including our first dates in Europe! Much excitement.

Fri. 31st August - Sebright Arms, London.
31-35 Coat Street, Bethnal Green.
w/ MYSTYRYS (single launch show)

Wed. 19th September - The Hope, Brighton.
11-12 Queens Road.
w/ Cult Of Youth
£6 adv. / buy tickets

Tues. 23rd October - Kinky Star, Gent, Belgium.
FREE SHOW

Wed. 24th October - Le Khedive, Brussels, Belgium.
**more info soon**

Thurs. 25th October - Espace B, Paris, France.
**more info soon**

Source review

So The Source had some nice things to say about "All Through The Sinew":

The "Apparition Vision" Video

BEHOLD! The video for Apparition Vision, shot by our pal Ash Allen.
Soft Arrows - Apparition Vision from Ash Allen on Vimeo.

Limited CD copies of "All Through The Sinew" available NOW!

Our album is now available in a limited CD format! These are limited edition CDR copies with hand made packaging, which means you get : hand numbered recycled card sleeves with individual Instax instant photo covers (every copy is different), plus lyric sheet and download code for the "In Mono" EP. We think they look pretty sweet!

You can buy these from our Bandcamp page, from Resident in Brighton, or off us at shows .

"All Through The Sinew" is out now

Yes! Our album is now officially out there for everyone to hear. Head over to our Bandcamp and you can stream the album and download it for as much or as little money as you want. There will also be some limited CD-R copies with hand-made packaging coming out very soon (more news when they're finished), but for now... go check out the album!
softarrows.bandcamp.com/album/all-through-the-sinew

Ruff Stuff #2

We're doing our free low-tech party night "Ruff Stuff" again. Last time was super fun so we thought we'd do another one. As with last time it'll be free entry, and have us and other rad bands playing the lovely small space upstairs at Fitzherberts in Brighton.

This time we'll have Speak Galactic, Cousin and Cheat Sheet playing. All awesome people in awesome bands.

There's a facebook event for it here if you wanna join up to it... it's gonna be fun!

Spirit Animal Bones : Free Download

We've just released a little sampler/single from the album, called "Spirit Animal Bones". You can download it for free right now from our Bandcamp, along with non-album track "Bats In Your Hair".


We're excited to have more of the new recordings out there for people to hear. The album, which is called "All Through The Sinew" will be out soon. More news on that soon!

Life post-Bizarro World

Hey there, it's been a while! We've been busy though, over the past few months we've finished all the mixing and mastering of our debut album, which we are super excited about. There will be music from that up for everyone to hear very soon. We've also been working on more new songs, and spent a lot of time working out or set of Beach Boys songs, which we played at Bizarro World in Brighton last week. It was such a fun night, and we've got a bit of footage of it too! Check out our version of Sloop John B...

Soft Arrows - Sloop John B from Ash Allen on Vimeo.

Stay tuned for the ALBUM!!

BIZARRO WORLD

Our next show is gonna be a doozy I tell ya. We're gonna be playing BIZARRO WORLD on March 31st at Fitzherbert's in Brighton, which is a special night of bands playing sets in the guise of other bands... so basically this means we will be playing as The Beach Boys, doing a set of Beach Boys songs, but in our own Soft Arrows style. The bill also has Negative Pegasus as Daft Punk, Cinemascopes as Black Sabbath and Us Baby Bear Bones as Weezer. It's going to be sweet.