Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, Spirit, My Bloody Valentine, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, The Replacements, The Beach Boys, Mariah Carey, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, The Association, Nazareth, Le Reno Amps, Ween, The Jesus Lizard, Helen Reddy, The Pastels, The Undertones, Trans AM, The Byrds, The Only Ones, The Futureheads, Redd Kross, Focus.
Actress Hands, a pop group, formed in the summer of 2002 and have recorded 5 albums of 'material' up to this point of writing (winter 2007/2008).
After releasing 2 CDR albums and 2 CDR mini-albums between 2002-2005, Actress Hands signed to Life Is Easy Records last year, touring in the last 12 months or so in support of The Walkmen, British Sea Power, Dinosaur Jr, The Pipettes and The Electric Soft Parade. Summer 2007 saw the group complete their first full UK tour as joint headliners with gifted Glaswegians Le Reno Amps.
There have been released 4 Actress Hands singles thus far; 'Snack Horse' (May 2006), 'Half An Hour' (Oct 2006) and 'Why The Sale?' (split 7" with Electric Soft Parade, Nov 2006) and most recently 'Come The Summer Days' (August 2007).
Actress Hands' most recent album 'Boys Need Jazz' was released worldwide through Life Is Easy Records in September 2007. It was recorded during autumn/winter of 2006 at Truck Studio in Oxfordshire. The Actress Hands sound was lovingly exaggerated on this LP that contains 10 new songs of hard rock jangle.
Having put together their own studio out in the West Country, the group are currently writing & recording their next album - tentatively titled 'Survivor's Guilt' and will be re-releasing the 2004 album 'Why the Sale' and 2005's 'Cattle Grid' LP through their own imprint Great Stuff Records in February 2008.
Hi Matt and Jonny,Me and The Captain have been tinkering around with new stuff thats a bit up the velvet crush/Fanny alley-you may like a listen.Budstock 2009 is on the cards, would love to have you back. Bests, Joe
hey there how are things goin? your myspace is looking slick! but anyways, i just downloaded some tight new ringers off www.hottones.info for FREE! they have the sweetest variety!
JANUARY (opening for British Sea Power) 28: Academy, Oxford 29: Komedia, Brighton 31: Koko, London
FEBRUARY 4: Slaughtered Lamb, London 6: Moles, Bath 7: Social, Nottingham 8: Brel Bar, Glasgow 10: Faversham, Leeds 11: Slaughtered Lamb, London 12: Ruby Lounge, Manchester 13: Fibbers, York 18: Slaughtered Lamb, London
Guys, you played a blinder last night, best i've ever heard and seen you, a great night all round really! Sorry i missed you at the end of the night, i reached the point of annebriation where i had to be led everywhere and we ended up at a bloody awful 'comedy' night - i was thrown out for falling asleep, HA!!! Anyway folks, you were ace - thanks for letting us play, lets do it again sometime.
Hey there. I’m playing for free at the sanctuary on Friday. It’s free and I’m pretty keen on having something to drink. I’ve got some new songs to play and it would be very nice to see you there, Supporting are a Shoreline off-shoot and because they’re so fucking excellent they’ll be worth seeing. Also playing are Twenty One Crows who I reckon probably really like Nick Cave, but so do I so that’s cool. Please come. Love Will x
New album? Tell you what i'm hearing. Marillion,dire straits even.Not really but one reviewer did,i think he must have been listening to another album thinking it was you.Same reviewer gave James 'dolphin'blunts new album 4/5.Tells you everything really.See you Monday for the launch at the farm.
Really love the harmonies in your songs. I wonder what they would sound like acoustically, just curious... Aww, and you're playing End of the Road! (God, I love that festival)
The spice girls did very well their ____girls personalities - I wonder, would this work for Actress Hands? E.g. 'Sporty Hands'...(no) So far, Dirty Hands', 'One Hands', 'Wandering Hands'..you get the idea...what do you think? No? xxx
Just mucking about. Phil told me you'd thanked the other 3 Sea Power boys on your album, but missed off my name. Aside from being deeply hurt, i'm fine about it.
