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At 2PM on May 19th, The Blood Arm is planning a free concert along the
U8 U-Bahn line in Berlin. Admission is the price of an U-Bahn ticket!

The U8 underground/metro line runs from the North to the South of the
city. It has 24 stops and takes about an hour to travel from start
(Wittenau) to finish (Hermannstraße), taking in some of Berlin’s
busiest stations including Alexanderplatz and Kottbusser Tor.

With a keyboard and an acoustic guitar, Dyan (keyboardist) and
Nathaniel (singer) will stop at every station to play a different song
along the way. All contributions go to the recording of their new
album “Sister City.”

Join us! We will be performing the first song at Wittenau station at 2
p.m. on Saturday…meet us there, or come see us along the way!

We will be posting videos of the performances on the website for our
Pledge Music campaign as an exclusive for pledgers only. We have
raised 60% of the funds needed to make our new album, so we still need
your help! We are offering lots of special incentives, so check it out
and make a pledge here: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/thebloodarm

UK fans, come see us on tour! Tickets still available for all dates:

24 May Club Surya, London, UK Tickets
25 May Inside Out/Seen, Darlington, UK Tickets
26 May Crooked Ways Festival, UK Tickets
28 July Farmfest – UK Tickets

We love you,

The Blood Arm

U8 Berlin

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Hello Friends!

Meet Matt Wheeler! Our new drummer!*

Matt Before

Matt is a recent transplant to Berlin from the UK and the former
Rumble Strips drummer.

Check him out in action in their video for the single “Motorcycle”:

http://vimeo.com/1405379

We are really happy to have him on board. He’s adding new life to our
older songs and making the new ones really snap!

Here he is after rehearsal yesterday:

Matt After

A little sweaty but no worse for wear. We are rehearsing our asses off
almost every day getting ready for our upcoming shows in the UK:

24 May Club Surya, London, UK Tickets
25 May Inside Out/Seen, Darlington, UK Tickets
26 May Crooked Ways Festival, UK Tickets

We’re gonna play a few new tunes on these dates too, so come on down
and have a listen, say hello and try to high five Matt. He’s really tall!!!

Love,
Nathaniel

*Zach, our previous drummer, could not continue with us for personal
reasons. We wish him great success in all future endeavors!

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Friends!

We are teaming up with Pledge Music to help fund our next album and need your help! Here’s a link with more information:

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/thebloodarm

To help spread the word about the campaign, we are also offering a link to a free new exclusive track!

http://www.pledgemusic.com/artists/thebloodarm/widgets/3667

Below is a personal message from Nathaniel…

It’s been a wild trip.

Dyan decided to move to Berlin with her boyfriend Eddie in early 2011. She packed up everything she couldn’t sell and shoved off for some good fun and a big change of scenery. Well I like fun and change (I’m a Sagittarius) and I was going craaaaaaaaaazy in L.A. (which you can hear all about on our new album Sister City), so I decided to shake things up and follow her across the world! I sold all my records (which numbered in the thousands) and my worldly belongings (lots of mirrors, lots of lamps, lots of junk and a car even!) packed up my son Jackie (a four year old shih-tzu—his birthday is February 9th and he’s an Aquarius. A match made in heaven!) and made my way across the Atlantic to join Dyan with dreams of Iggy Pop and David Bowie in my head.

Berlin, a bigger beast than even I am, did not let me down. (Thanks Dyan!) This city has been an incredible inspiration and we have the album to prove it.

But we need your help! We are right now a completely self-funded band. And although we are able to scrape by living on music, we’re unable to pay to make this record ourselves. As of today we have 23 great songs written for Sister City with more on the way. Don’t worry, it won’t be a double album, just an album of very well chosen, exciting songs that we hope will touch you in some small way. This is why we make music and this is why we are doing this Pledge campaign. We want these songs, which we have toiled over and lived through, to sound amazing and we want you to be a part of the experience. In addition to the incentives you see here, we’ll be updating this page with special tidbits from the recording process and musings on our lives here in Berlin. We’re also donating a portion of the proceeds to the American Red Cross. What do you say?