Speaking of hand-made copies…here’s a little making-of in photographs. It was a lot of work (and papercuts!) but it was worth it.
If you’d like one, we’ll be selling them online very soon. And by selling, we mean practically giving them away to you all.
Hi everyone, sorry for the radio silence about these parts.
We’ve been a little busy! We played our EP launch show on Saturday night. It was a lot of fun, and we played with two excellent bands in Timberwolf and Inertia Blooms. If you came down, and you bought our hand-made CDs, then thanks.
02/04/12 - EP odds and ends, launch gig.
Hello, hello, hello. First of all, I’m really sorry that we didn’t do some hilarious and original April Fool’s joke, like pretended to have written a dubstep version of our album, or that Greg had died in a house fire. Most importantly though, we’d like to thank every single one of you who downloaded our recently released EP. We’ve been blown away with the response and people’s kindness (many of you paid for music you could have got for free!) and we’ve had some great feedback.
We have a couple of bits of news we’d like to share with you, so read on, soul sisters. Wall of text, activate!
EP launch gig - April 21st
On Saturday 21st April we will be officially ‘launching’ the EP with a live show at The Flapper & Firkin in Birmingham.
We are lining up some of our favourite local bands to play alongside us and it’s set to be a great night of music, so we’d be chuffed if you could join us and celebrate.
Check out the Facebook event for more info.
We’re also playing with the amazing IO on Thursday at the Sunflower Lounge in Birmingham. It’s going to be ace. See you there, perhaps.
EP now available on Spotify
The ‘Arbor Lights EP’ EP - EP - is now available to listen to on Spotify, along with our 2011 single ‘On A Sea’, so if you’d rather listen there, maybe you should click here to get the goods. Since we get about 0.007p per play through Spotify, telling your friends that they can listen to us there would be most appreciated!
So, what’s next?
Well, we’ve been pretty busy doing this whole ‘EP release’ nonsense which has meant we’ve not had a lot of time to actually write songs. However, we’ve written two new ones completely and if you’re a post-rock whore, you’ll be happy to know that together they’re just as long as our entire EP. You can listen to one of the tracks live here on the Youtubes. It’s pretty pretty.
Anyway, that’s enough for now. Thanks for reading, and continue being excellent, you lovable scamps you.
Much Love, Alex, James, Greg and Matt
Arbor Lights x
For more info, please visit our website.
Awesome! A fan all the way from Brazil e-mailed us earlier on today to show us a video he made of himself hang-gliding, with our music as the backing. How fucking cool is this? Everyone click through to Mauricio’s Youtube page and give the guy some love.
noisedfm replied to your post: Just so you know, I keep singing constants (part 2) in my head today! Haha
You’re a fan, that’s all. Nothing to be ashamed of. Ok a little bit.
People said I’d never get over my addiction to Phil Collins, but Take A Look At Me Now.
Q:Just so you know, I keep singing constants (part 2) in my head today! Haha
It’s better than Easy Lover by Phil Collins, which unfortunately is what I’ve been stuck on (for some mad reason).
M
Teaser for the new I Like Trains album, called The Shallows.
Those guys are such teases!
Lovely words about us, courtesy of Gigseen.
“Arbor Lights have a great sound (and great taste - lots ofMogwai-respect on their site) and have made their debut with an excellently realised set of cracking tunes that can only serve to propel them further onto the radar of a wide swathe of potential fans. Give it a spin.”
Thank you, Gigseen!
Thanks to everyone who’s downloaded/purchased the EP so far.
If you haven’t already, get on it!
http://arborlights.bandcamp.com
The real question on our minds is, what do you all think?
We’re #10 on Bandcamp’s front page!
Hello! We're Arbor Lights, and we are crafters of fine, hearty instrumental rock. We are from Birmingham in the UK. Sometimes we play loud, sometimes we play quiet.
We released our self-titled EP in March 2012; you can listen to it and download it for free at:
http://arborlights.bandcamp.com
