The Black Hands debut album available for pre-order
Hot off the back of their chart topping single Straight & Narrow, The Black Hands announce details of their debut album, ELECTRIC PREMIER THEATRE, to be released on Fri 17 May 2019 and available to pre-order now from http://theblackhands.com
Straight & Narrow has spent the weekend vying for top spot in the Amazon Rock Charts and peaked at a #2 just behind Whitesnake’s Shut Up & Kiss Me.
The Black Hands are now delighted to announce details of their long-anticipated debut album.
Album details
Title: Electric Premier Theatre
Release date: Friday 17 May 2019
All songs written, recorded, mixed & produced by The Black Hands.
Mastered by Beefstock
Daniel Riley – guitars/mandolin/backing vocals
Joe Hayes – bass guitar/keys/percussion/backing vocals
Andy Gannon – vocals/harmonica
Ben Atkins – drums/percussion
Additional musicians:
Edward Kettlewell – saxophone
Coverart by Gordon Burvill
Photography by Lily Hammond
Tracklisting:
- House Of Cards
- Grape & The Grain
- That Ain’t The Way
- Experienced Blues (Part 1)
- 45
- High Times (Bright Lights)
- God Love a Trier (But He Don’t Love Me)
- Straight & Narrow
- Experienced Blues (Part 2)
- Heavy Load
- You Gotta Move
It will be available in digital (MP3) and CD formats. Distributed by Cargo Records. Pre-order here: http://theblackhands.com/shop
The Black Hands are a rootsy rock/blues outfit from Chesterfield, England, in the mould of Free, Cream and more recently Rival Sons and The Temperance Movement. Throw in some Deep South influences from yesteryear and you will start to picture where The Black Hands are coming from.
The band have actually been around since 2010 but have been ‘derailed by life’. A mixture of marriage, births and unfortunately bereavement all colluded at the wrong times to hinder the obvious talent on offer. Now they are back with a bang and ready to fulfil all the early promise that garnered much breakthrough recognition.
Singer, Andy Gannon said: “This album has been such a journey for us, it puts Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy to shame, it has been that long in the making. Some of the songs started gestation some 8-9 years ago, so you could say that they have stood the test of time and critique to be on the album.
We are immensely proud to set our babies free for the world to enjoy. We built our own studio and started on an old 8-track and have upgraded over time but that core, authentic, analogue sound is at the root of who we are and what we do.
The album title is a play on the name of an old local theatre (Premier Electric Theatre, Somercotes) that was been part of our lives as kids and has also stood the test of time and gone through many incarnations, so it kinda connected with us. The building is still there, though not been used in years and so we wanted to pay homage to it by including it on the album cover.”
The Black Hands play TMR Rockfest on Good Friday 19 April at The Patriot, Crumlin, South Wales. It’s a FREE ENTRY 3-night festival. They then play RoadRage Fest in Sheffield on Easter Saturday 20 April 2019.
The Black Hands are:
Andy Gannon (vocals/harp)
Daniel Riley (guitars)
Joe Hayes (bass/keys)
Ben Atkins (drums)
Links:
http://www.theblackhands.com/
https://www.facebook.com/theblackhandsmusic/
https://twitter.com/theblackhands
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyNLyKCLXUUWHUMz8At1_Sg
https://www.instagram.com/theblackhandsmusic/
https://soundcloud.com/theblackhandsmusic/sets/latest-singles
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5cU0q8pfCq1BcYkIM7xLHl?si=0b_kV-xCTg6RF98gVv3Yxg
