a revolving cast of 1000's, including you and me (Easterbrook, Wheeler & Beard; 2006 - present)
Etkilendikleri
Dusk, alcohol, asthma, altered-states, Borley Rectory, Woodchurch, Liverpool, WKPH, Bidston, London, Camden Toon, Cambridge, Paris, Dayton, Cleveland, Toronto, Altamont, Hampstead, The Living, The Dead, disappointment in others, wet English Sunday afternoons, dominos, seances, spongecake, cognac, champagne, staying up late for no good reason whatsover, fizzy water, fizzy pop, psychotropics, friends, enemies, lovers, origami, good packaging, coffins, corks, The 1832 Madhouse Act, M.R.James, H.Russell Wakefield, Sheridan le Fanu, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, Anthony Powell, Bill Burroughs, Fritz Leiber, Tom Sharpe, 'Plum' Wodehouse, Percy Shelley, Ted Hughes, William Blake, The Fabs, Roger Keith Barrett, Don Van Vliet, John Lydon, Julian Cope, The Glimmers, Dukes of Stratosphear, William Eggleston, Stanley Booth - The Okefenokee Kid (whose fault this all is), Malcolm Tucker, Greenaway, Murnau, Fisher, Coppola, Polanski, Fellini, Argento, Hammer, Amicus, Tygon, AIP, Giallo, night time, Lacoste, Cordings, Harris Tweed, Aquascutum, cleanish living under shitty circumstances...
Neye Benziyor?
THEY SAID IT, NOT US...
"The best and most disconcerting psychedelia
I’ve heard these past coupla years"
JULIAN COPE;
"Step up to the stage of Arrowe Hill, a band who will in
time become essential to your very existence
let alone your record collection"
LOSING TODAY;
"The sound of a band falling down a very large flight of stairs"
MOJO;
"More Please, psychedelic waiter"
TIME OUT;
"Shaping up as Punk Floyd...the future is theirs, even if
it takes place in a parallel universe"
NME;
"An exultantly melodic slice of left-handed brilliance
& true psycho-delic pop"
LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS;
"Bad trips rarely feel so good"
KERRANG;
"This is psychedelia with huge balls"
SOUNDSXP;
"Drips with the lunacy of Syd Barrett, the low attention
span of the MTV generation & the kind of hunger
that only results from access to a record collection
so enourmous that if you were to play through it 24/7
you still wouldn't hear everything before you died"
LOGO;
"An inspired trip"
THE TIMES;
"A great bourbon-blasted yarn...an album of high concept psyche-rock"
NME;
"...At a succinct 30 minutes it avoids hoary cliché by constantly shifting its riffage from Beefheart to Gallagher, and its mindset between Tim Burton and Robyn Hitchcock...(4/5)"
UNCUT;
"This is what happens when psychedelia becomes a trendy name to drop"
SHITDIG;
"M.R.James meets Elmore James"
BLUES MATTERS;
"Hexadelic narco-blues Demons"
CLASSIC ROCK;
"They don't do things like other bands"
HEAD HERITAGE ...
...WE SAID IT NOT THEM...
Acid Expressionism, Metaphysical R&B, Psyche-volk, Workhouse Rock, Kosmische Englisch Muzak
Of Arrowe Hill
The disparate elements that resulted in The Entity now known as
'of Arrowe Hill' initially coalesced in a warehouse in East London, springing from the errant conversations of exiled Scousers, way back during the final year of the last century.
A one-sided 7" ("A Dull Today is Darker Yesterday's Bright Tomorrow") sleeved in a rubber-stamped brown paper bag and restricted to some 350 numbered copies, escaped the vigilance of the Secret Chiefs sometime around the first year of the 21st Century.
This was followed, after a gestation of some 18 months, by another 7", this time with both sides left intact (the aptly titled neo-psychedelic classic "Gadfly Adolescence" b/w the bucolic and head-spinning "Cuckoo Spit").
Rumours of the band's demise shortly after recording a BBC Radio session for the late Sir John Peel and the release of the debut album "The Spring Heel Penny Dreadful & other Tales of Morbid Curiosity" in May 2003, whilst attractive to some, where completely erroneous, as witnessed by the release of the sophomore record "Hexadelica and the Speed of Darkness" (which features a guest spot by The Fallen Star Fife & Drum Band), on Hallowe'en 2005.
A promo-film for 'Dreams of A Sunday Always Waiting' was posted on a well-known video host in the Autumn of 2006, a visual foretaste for the band's next long player, whilst a limited edition one-sided 7" single 'Your Late Unpleasantness' (in poster sleeve) was released Monday 18th June 2007. Another track from their new batch of recordings, 'A Haunted House Ain't A Home' was featured on a cover-mounted cd for 'Classic Rock' in September 2007.
'Dulce Domum', of Arrowe Hill's third LP was released by Ouija Board Entertainment on Bonfire Night 2007, a deeply unfashionable acid-country- blues-seance for an out-of-step world more comfortable with the same old things, but in a different (new) order. Fancy a little grave-robbing? Dig yerself.
Remember we said the lads were doing an EP, called 'Songs For Dead Blondes - POETS EP'? Well, they also recorded a coupla other tracks at the same time & the session went so well, they've decided to abandon the EP & admit to us & themselves that they've actually started the next LP. Hurrah! We've heard the new gear & it's PROPER mint - sounds like Can robbing the lead off Keef's Cheyne Walk roof, whilst the Burritos make breakfast, the Glimmer Twins fiddle about with the (Pete Brown's battered) ornaments & Comus burn happily in the fireplace. So, all things being equal, there'll be a single called 'The Bones Saying No To The Needle' coming out sometime next Spring (if we behave ourselves and sit quietly in the dark), to tide us all over until they get the next LP boxed off which has been written via John Dee's Scrying Glass & a broken biro...of Arrowe Hill also had the honour in December 2008 of having 'Cursing The Seasons' included in Classic Rock magazine's 65th birthday tribute issue to His Satanic Majesty Keith Richards; happy birthday Keef- don't go changing, eh?
2009? Jings! Where does the time go? Well folks, happy to report the new single 'The Bones Saying No to the Needle' came out on Monday 1st June 2009 & is available not ONLY as a very limited, one-sided 7" single from various independent record shops, but ALSO as a download from our boss mates & neo-psychedelic doyens Northern Star, i-Tunes, Napster & Amazon (worldwide). Whilst we're at it, the lads' new LP 'A Few Minutes in the Absolute Elsewhere' will be released early in 2010 & will be available on vinyl & download only.
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FOR ALL RECORDED MATERIAL INQUIRIES, PLS CONTACT SEAN @ ROUGH TRADE OR PHIL @ NORMANS (ASK THEM NICELY) TO ORDER IT AND THEY'LL BOX IT OFF FOR YOU (PROVIDED IT'S NOT DELETED OR SOMESUCH)
Good to catch you live last night, even if it was part of a talent contest ('Very professional' - high praise indeed!) Would have liked to stay and chat more but I live out in the sticks and had to disappear into the night. The new material is sounding great.
