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). 'A Few Minutes in the Absolute Elsewhere' was released on 1st february 2010 to critical acclaim & is available on extremely limited vinyl & download only. Their newest LP 'Suddenly, At Home & Other Rumours of Misadventure' was released on D-Day 2011, earning the boys their best press & radio coverage to date. God Save of Arrowe Hill.
