Lead singer of WHITE ARROWS, Mickey Schiff was born blind. At the age of 11 after years of gradual eye exercises and otherworldly determination, he regained his sight. Someone who has experienced and achieved this is undoubtedly going to be profoundly affected and perhaps understandably, a degree in business studies was not ever going to be an option for Schiff - when he came to select his subject for college: he chose Ritualistic Shamanism.
In the summer of 2008, fresh out of NYU armed with his degree, Los Angeles native Mickey Schiff began WHITE ARROWS. Fusing his studies with a drum machine and the looming, immediate presence of a booming NYC club scene; WHITE ARROWS was intended less as a group than a social document, detailing the experience of the young, ambitious, fucked-up, beautiful children of a new America - all coastal culture and no middle. Schiff’s own remarkable history meant that there could be no other reasoning behind the band. It didn’t take long before Schiff began seeing white arrows tagged across the lower Eastside and tattooed on the arms of friends and acquaintances.
Schiff moved back to Los Angeles where in 2010 WHITE ARROWS began its life as a performing unit. The line up features Steven Vernet (guitar and percussion), Rob Banks (guitar), Andrew Naeve (keys) and Mickey Schiff, as well as his 17 year old brother Henry Schiff (drums) and half-brother, John Paul Caballero (bass).
WHITE ARROWS are a credit to the psychedelic genre and the city of Los Angeles.
