Arrows Of Love On The Making Of 'The Knife' Video

Usually, making a video is more or less a straight 'lights, camera, action' job. However, when Arrows Of Love set about shooting their little filmic number to accompany 'The Knife' - which you can watch above - things didn't run quite to plan, as the band recount:


"The video shoot genuinely involved haggling, lying to priests, breaking the law, being chased by security guards, and encountering a supernatural scarey thing before running for our lives. No shit.

The first idea was to break into an abandoned chapel on a hill, which was owned by a corporation which meant going round the back to avoid the security guards. The director had been there and told us to go check it out. She didn't tell us she'd got caught by security, lied to them about her deceased grandmother dying there, and ended up being chased by the guards when they cottoned on. The first time our band went there was just to look...... we got up the hill, reached the doors, and a full blown snowstorm came out of nowhere - as we peered into pitch black rooms with a crappy phone light we felt like the stupid people that die at the start of a horror film. The place was creepy as fuck.

The next time we went it was all of us, in the dead of night. We broke in, crept up right up to the top, and walked along a pitch black corridor when we stopped, heard something, and then there was this irregular banging that was GROWING CLOSER AND COMING STRAIGHT FOR US. The whole episode was being filmed.....as was our decision to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE and run for our lives. Blair witch eat your heart out. No one will ever see that footage. When we were outside we looked back and in the building there were no lights, no torches, no signs of humans. It was definitely NICK CAVE.

After a drink to calm our nerves we tried another church, which involved the director lying to a priest about how we were religious students at Goldsmiths making a film about Christianity. He almost rumbled us when it turned out he'd been on that exact course. I generally felt my soul slowly treading towards eternal damnation. The third church was where they filmed Harry Potter - I don't know how she managed that one for free - at this stage I thought it was best not to."

['The Knife' is released as a single on June 3.]