Band Of Horses add second Melbourne show

For those who missed out on tickets to Band Of Horses side shows, fear not, because the band have just announced they will be playing an intimate show at the Corner Hotel, Melbourne, on Monday the 26th of July.

The show will be an acoustic set consisting of tracks from their new release Infinite Arms as well as their previous two releases Everything All The Time (2006) and Cease To Begin (2007).

Band Of Horses will be in the country for Splendour In The Grass and On The Bright Side festivals.

Melbourne – Monday July 26 – The Corner Hotel – NEW SHOW ON SALE NOW!

Tickets from www.handsometours.com
Corner Box Office (57 Swan St Richmond 12-8 Mon-Sat), ph. 9427 9198 or online www.cornerhotel.com
Also available at Polyester Records (City & Fitzroy store)

Splendour Side Show Bonanza!

While Splendour In The Grass tickets have all sold out, all hope for seeing your favourite band isn’t lost because of two magical little words… Side Show.

A bunch of artists have announced shows this week including Two Door Cinema Club, Ash, Laura Marling, Florence and The Machine and a stack more.

Alright, are you ready, here are the dates announced so far:

Two Door Cinema Club
Thursday 29^th July –  Adelaise Uni Bar, Adelaide
Monday 2^nd August – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
Tuesday 3^rd August – East Brunswick Club, Melbourne

We Are Scientists & Ash w/Last Dinosaurs
Tuesday 3rd August – The Metro, Sydney
Wednesday 4th August – Billboard, Melbourne

Passion Pit
Monday 2^nd August – The Forum, Sydney
Thursday 5^th August – Prince Bandroom, Melbourne

Magic Numbers
Wednesday 28^th July – Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Friday 30^th July – Metro, Sydney

Kate Nash
Wednesday 4^th August – Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Thursday 5^th August – Metro, Sydney

Alberta Cross
Saturday 24^th July – Annandale Hotel, Sydney
Tuesday 27^th July – Corner Hotel, Melbourne

Laura Marling w/ Boy & Bear
Monday 2^nd August – Metro, Sydney
Wednesday 4^th August – The Hi-Fi, Melbourne
Saturday 7^th August – The Gov, Adelaide
Sunday 8^th August – Capitol, Perth

Band Of Skulls
Tuesday 3^rd August – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
Wednesday 4^th August – East Brunswick Club, Melbourne

Foals
Tuesday 27^th July – The Hi-Fi, Melbourne
Wednesday 28^th July – Manning Bar, Sydney

Jonsi
Monday 2^nd August – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Wednesday 4^th August – Palace Theatre, Melbourne

Surfer Blood
Friday 30^th July – Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Tuesday 3^rd August – Manning Bar, Sydney

Florence And The Machine*
Tuesday 3 August – Festival Hall, Melbourne
Thursday 5 August – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Tuesday 10 August – Challenge Stadium, Perth

Yeasayer
Sydney – Metro Theatre – Wednesday July 28
Melbourne – Prince of Wales – Thursday July 29

Broken Social Scene
Melbourne – Tuesday August 3 – The Corner Hotel
Sydney – Wednesday August 4 – Metro Theatre

Band Of Horses**
Adelaide – Governor Hindmarsh – Thursday July 22
Melbourne – Palace Theatre – Tuesday July 27
Sydney – Enmore Theatre — Thursday July 29

Tickets are available from the usual outlets and all go on sale 14^th May.

*Tickets on sale 21^st May

** Tickets on sale 30^th May

Band Of Horses go track-by-track on Infinite Arms

Band of Horses vocalist Ben Bridwell talks through the tracks on new album Infinite Arms, due for release on May 18^th.

FACTORY
I was listening to a lot of Nick Drake and was really enamoured by the string arrangements in his songs. Also, I was trying to make it a bit dramatic sounding in a Bittersweet Symphony kinda way.

COMPLIMENTS
This was a song we recorded three times before we actually got the style that we wanted. It was all live in the studio except for the vocals. I’ve seen people leaving comments that the song sounds really produced when we just did it three times and chose a live version of it. I don’t know how you can over-produce that.

LAREDO
I went to this cabin in Minnesota at the Canadian border and three or four of the songs on this record all came from the same four-day trip up there. I was just staring out at the lake for a couple of days and this one just kind of came out of nowhere.

BLUE BEARD
Bill Reynolds (bassist) played me a demo of Blue Beard that he recorded at home and I threw some vocals on it and played with the structure. I ended up playing drums on that one which is really strange because I’m a terrible drummer.

ON MY WAY BACK HOME
A lot of people reference the Beach Boys with this song without us even telling them that when we went to mix it we actually went to the studio where the Beach Boys recorded Pet Sounds.

INFINITE ARMS
This song deals a lot with the major theme of the record and being the title track that’s maybe a little obvious but this is one I’m not quite ready to unveil the mask on but I can tell you that it almost didn’t make the record.

DILLY
I’m always wrong about what’s going to be the first single and I thought that this would be a good one to at least leak to blogs and shit like that because it’s just so upbeat and a bit different for us. It has a doo-wop feel which is a new horizon for Band of Horses.

EVENING KITCHEN
This is completely written by Tyler Ramsey (guitarist). He sent me a demo of the music, I recorded vocals on top of it and it was embarrassingly bad but luckily he had the foresight to record his own vocals and lyrics.

OLDER
This is a song of Ryan Monroe’s (keyboardist), which he wrote quite a way back and we’ve been playing it live for a long time. Like Evening Kitchen it showcases the other members which has been my main goal with this record.

FOR ANNABELLE
This is a homage to my daughter, as at the time of writing my wife was pregnant with our first child and I guess impending fatherhood was probably the main influence or inspiration for the song. Also, Tyler wrote the intro in five seconds.

NW APT.
I had the music down for this as a demo but I couldn’t figure out what to sing on it basically and I think I just went to mine the territory of living in Seattle and some of the situations that revolved around that time. To me it’s comedic but I don’t know if anyone will ever get what the fuck I’m talking about ‘cos it’s done in my usual way of masking the actual content of what’s really going on.

NEIGHBOUR
I was messing with this synth guitar thing and I can’t play piano at all but with the synth guitar I could make guitar shapes and piano sounds would come out, so I just wrote in a little journal while staring out at that lake again.

Band Of Horses release Infinite Arms

Seatle via North Carolina’s finest, Band of Horses, have announced their third studio album, Infinite Arms, will be released in Australia on May 18^th.

Can’t wait till May 18^th? No worries, you can head to the band’s website www.bandofhorses.com and download the Compliments video for free.

Infinite Arms was recorded over a 16 month period in different locations across North America.

Infinite Arms marks the recording debut of long time touring members of the group, Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds.

Through touring together in support of Cease to Begin and during breaks in the Infinite Arms recording process, the band have become a cohesive force with all members making invaluable contributions to the unmistakable sound that founder Bridwell has crafted since the band’s inception. As Bridwell himself concedes, “in many ways, this is the first Band of Horses record.”

Infinite Arms’ track listing:

1)     Factory
2)     Compliments
3)     Laredo
4)     Blue Beard
5)     On My Way Back Home
6)     Infinite Arms
7)     Dilly
8)     Evening Kitchen
9)     Older
10)  For Annabelle
11)  NW Apt.
12)  Neighbor