Arbor Lights

Sorry to hear about constants part one, but you guys still are amazing and once i get money I'm throwing it at you so be prepared.

Sun, 27 May 2012 17:13:28 +0100

We appreciate people throwing money at us, but preferably in cash. Change being thrown all up in our grill isn’t particularly enjoyable.

any upcoming summer gigs?

Sun, 27 May 2012 17:12:52 +0100

Hi! We have a couple of gigs planned for June, and we’ll post details of those here and on our Facebook page soon. July will see us playing a festival show, with any luck, and we’ve applied to play at Artsfest 2012 in Birmingham in September.

I’d say follow our Songkick page, but unfortunately it seems to now be showing gigs from the other Arbor Lights. *sigh*

Our american friend Ben made this really, really great video for...

Sat, 26 May 2012 18:03:45 +0100

Our american friend Ben made this really, really great video for On A Sea. I really dig the interpretation of the song and it’s really well put together. Now someone go bug him to make some for all our other songs!

Arbor Lights Book Club time! Have you all read this book?...

Wed, 23 May 2012 21:51:06 +0100

Arbor Lights Book Club time!

Have you all read this book? It’s the book on the underground scene in America during the 80’s. When I was 16, it introduced me to the Minutemen, Mission Of Burma, Fugazi and Sonic Youth and since then I never looked back. It’s written in such a passionate way, and also in a truly honest way too; the writer doesn’t pull any punches when he talks about some of the bands at points, and it makes for a really emotional touch (especially when he talks about the tragic death of the Minutemen’s guitarist D.Boon).

What do you all think of it? Are there any similar books you’d recommend to us?

Good news for anyone who’s scared of Zip files and for...

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:15:00 +0100

Good news for anyone who’s scared of Zip files and for some reason doesn’t have PayPal; you can now get our EP on iTunes, Amazon MP3, and you can listen for free on Spotify.

The EP is £3.45 on Amazon and £3.95 on iTunes. On our Bandcamp you can download our album in a higher bitrate for FREE. You can choose to pay some if you like but we don’t expect you to. Basically, it’s awesome, and if you choose to get our EP you might as well get it from there.

The EP will be coming soon to other streaming services too; Deezer, eMusic, Mog, iheartradio and Zune, amongst a couple of other stores including Google Play.

thebluthcompany: Never Nude by boxbrown Three out of four of...

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:14:50 +0100

thebluthcompany:

Never Nude by boxbrown

Three out of four of us are now Arrested Development converts. J, you’re next.

Arbor Lights Monthly Playlist - May 2012 Hey everyone,...

Mon, 14 May 2012 14:05:00 +0100

Arbor Lights Monthly Playlist - May 2012

Hey everyone, here’s the latest installment of our monthly playlist! It’s a pretty varied one this month:

Antelope - Reflector
Bear vs. Shark - Blood Giver
Time Zone featuring John Lydon - World Destruction
Soundgarden - Live To Rise
Foo Fighters - Come Back
Blacklisters - Clubfoot By Kasabian
The Appleseed Cast - Hanging Marionette
Algernon Cadwaller - Uniform
You Slut! - Fiftzeen
Cursive - Art Is Hard
Mastodon - Curl Of The Burl
My Morning Jacket - Holdin’ Onto Black Metal

Uhhh random question time: does constants part 2 have a part one?

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:43:00 +0100

There is a part one…it was meant to be a b-side to On A Sea but Korn heard what we’d written and sued us for plagarism. There was only like…ninety seconds of the song that sounded just like Freak On A Leash, but those guys just did not get off our case.

08/05/12

Tue, 08 May 2012 22:14:00 +0100

Hi everyone. Once again we’ve been really quiet on here and for that I’m super sorry. We’ll do better for you now, baby, I promise. Anyway, there’s a couple of interesting things we can talk about today, so here goes:

EP Copies
Our handmade copies of the EP are proving to be pretty popular! We’re really glad people have been enjoying them. If you’ve snagged one, let us know what number you’ve got! If you haven’t seen them already, go here and check out our hand-made copies of the EP, and then go here to our Bandcamp and buy one. £3 plus postage! You’re practically robbing us.

Getting played at football stadiums and on podcasts
We got played at Molineux football ground on Sunday, just before kick-off between Wolves and Everton. That’s pretty rad!

We’ve also been featured on The Milk Bar podcast, which is a sort of local podcast here in the Midlands - our drummer J got a sort of light grilling about the band from the presenter, and he didn’t swear. Good job! Thanks to Jason Forrest for putting us on - he also was responsible for a few thousand football fans being subjected to Zombie Ska, so he deserves even more love.

The 6forty Project podcast is another amazing collection of post-rock music and they’ve featured us on their latest playlist alongside some of my absolute favourite bands (this is exciting!)

We also got played on the Five Song Set podcast, which is neat and featured a few interesting bands. Check that one out here.

EP 2
On a list of surprises falling somewhere between ‘grass is green’ and ‘grass isn’t very nice to just chew on unless you’re a cow’, we’ve started working on EP number 2. Or an album. Who knows. Some of you who came down to our EP launch gig will have heard a couple of songs (including this one on Youtube - thanks Dad!) that we’ve finished so far and we have a few more in the pipeline. It’s exciting writing again after so long recording and not moving forward! It’s also exciting to see where we’re going as a band. Hopefully you’ll be excited too.

Anyway that’s about it for now. As ever, come say hello here or on our Facebook, where we’ve got into a habit of telling everyone how awesome other bands are instead of ourselves. If you haven’t checked the EP out yet, seriously, what? You’ve read all of this and you haven’t even listened to a bit of it? Go sort it out!

Hugs and kisses, you horrible lot. xo

…and following on very nicely from our previous post, the...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:40:13 +0100

…and following on very nicely from our previous post, the remaining physical versions of the EP are now available to purchase from our BandCamp page. We’ve only made 100 of these and they’re all hand numbered so you’ll need to be quick.

One of these will set you back a meagre £3 and we’re shipping these beauties internationally so nobody should feel left out!

Speaking of hand-made copies…here’s a little...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:38:24 +0100

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...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:33:01 +0100

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.

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:08:32 +0100

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

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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...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:30:30 +0100

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...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:52:51 +0000

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.

Just so you know, I keep singing constants (part 2) in my head today! Haha

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:54:45 +0000

It’s better than Easy Lover by Phil Collins, which unfortunately is what I’ve been stuck on (for some mad reason).

Teaser for the new I Like Trains album, called The...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:56:58 +0000

Teaser for the new I Like Trains album, called The Shallows.

Those guys are such teases!

Lovely words about us, courtesy of Gigseen.

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:18:10 +0000

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.

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:03:07 +0000

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!

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:56:56 +0000

We’re #10 on Bandcamp’s front page!