Hello

I’ve just added our new mixes to the page... we did some messing with the sticks on our newest songs prancing pearl and mothers ruin, so theyre a bit jumpier and got them remastered by local whiz Ill Spectre. We’re pleased to announce we will be releasing these two on a seven inch through stich stich records. Just getting the artwork done and then they’ll be off to press.

We’ve also done new mixes of shipping forecast and loofah mit from last year’s album, so you can hear the singing a bit better above the racket.

If you’re in Bristol, I hope you’ll make it along to ’we used to be painters’ at bridewell police station on april 24th. we’ll be doing a special performance in collaboration with the artist Mattias Arvastsson and airing some new works in progress. We’ll also be playing with our pals the bumblebees on may 2nd, and jerky Londoners the Chap on May 7th... should be good.

We’re also putting together some European festivals and the like for the summer... please get in touch if you’d like to put us on.

Cheers, Matthew

Based in Bristol, UK Arctic Circle are a 7-piece multi-instrumental pop band led by professional daydreamer Matthew Cheney. Despite this being their first proper album, they have previously existed in various incarnations in both Glasgow and Vancouver. They play like a school orchestra abandoned by its conductor, left alone with the key to the instrument cupboard. Arctic Circle lodge infectious melodies and brittle harmonies so deep into your head that you'll be whistling their merry tunes as you walk but cursing their name as you try to get to sleep.


They embrace boy/girl vocals and have a box of tricks that includes accordion, clarinet, glockenspiel, effects pedals, pan lids, melodica, analogue electronics and all the rest.


At live gigs the stage often resembles a jumble sale, echoing their love of homespun aesthetics and languid afternoons. Their humdrum lyrics tinker with domesticity and pithy politics yet they somehow unearth the poetics of yearning that lurks deep within the washing up. Musically, they knuckle down and waft away, soaring up above the terracotta in a haze of triumphant psychedelic glory. 


Arctic Circle pride themselves on only once having been told to keep it down by neighbours. Instead a pair of feet usually appear underneath the garage door where they practice, and those feet are at the end of a pair of legs, and those legs head north up to a neck, and the neck leads to a mouth and the words waiting in that mouth are "can I join?"
This is how there came to be 7.



But like the tortoise they'll get there in the end – no pushing, no shoving, no underhand tactics, just a good clean show.



UK TOUR with Ladybird, September 2007



We're just booking dates around the uk, with our pals, Ladybird ... check out their page www.myspace.com/ladybird00 for some great songs



If you can offer us a date (see upcoming shows for gaps) that'd be great

our good friend adriana alba has made a fantastic video for us, of the song 'meanwhile gardens'.

 

Hello !

We're trying to put together a tour of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, around August 3rd to 11th of this year. We'd be really happy to play with other bands in small venues/ bars/ houses/ back gardens/ parks etc Please send us a message if you can help, or you know someone else who can... Thanks, Matthew

Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?

The Junction, a mighty fine venue here in Bristol, has put out a benefit CD to help them pay the bills, and, amongst a tracklisting featuring many of Bristol's finest acts, there's an Arctic Circle song, called 'Comfort Zone'.
It's only a fiver, and you can even buy it online with paypal. Which you can access by this thingy: