Cut Off Your Hands
‘Expectations’
sixsevenine
18th August 2008
‘Expectations’ is the first single to be taken from Cut Off Your Hands’s highly anticipated debut album ‘You and I’ produced by Bernard Butler (Manic Street Preachers, Suede, Libertines, Duffy) and released on sixsevenine recordings this summer. Expectations is set to be the ultimate summer dance floor filler - heartfelt, urgent indie pop, full of cleverly chorused melodies, sparkling guitars, harmonic bass lines and a backbone of creative drum rhythms stampeding like a heard of wild horses. Energetic frontman Nick boldy sings “Oh these expectations / are pulling at me / oh I just can’t hold on” making this a tightly woven tapestry set for festival stages worldwide. Cut Off Your Hands have a canny knack of producing short sharp melodic pop songs that get ingrained in ones’ brain, finding them a host of fans including old tour mates Foals, and Les Savy Fav to name but a few.
Cut Off Your Hands have been touring persistently for the past six months; having left their native New Zealand shores in pursuit of bigger stages, they recently joined The Black Kids and The Wombats on their prospective UK tours, and are now currently preparing for their own headline UK tour this month, following which they will fly to USA for a full tour of the major cities. They will appear at UK festivals: as well as Japan’s Summersonic festial in August.
In their short time on both record and stage, Cut Off Your Hands have created a slew of melodic and downright memorable music. From the romantic naivety of ‘Oh Girl’ and ‘Happy As Can Be’, to the speeding, hyper-love balladry of the pop-paean ‘Still Fond’, the four-piece have shownthey’ve got what it takes to grab the world by it’s collective scruff and shake them into spinning, lovesick action. Not so sweet as perhaps their lyrics might suggest, (lyrics which should be heard with a heavy dose of irony) Cut off Your Hands live show should come with a health and safety warning.
Bloggers recently hyped up the band’s brilliant lo-fi covers of The Sonics, Split Ends, and The Buzzcocks which are doing the rounds, some of which have provided extra sparkle in the band’s sizzling live show.
The debut album is set for release this winter
UK dates 2008
June 13 Colchester Arts Centre Colchester
June 15 Norwich Arts Centre Norwich
June 16 Roadmender Northampton
June 18 ULU London
July 15 Freebutt Brighton
July 16 Night & Day Manchester
July 17 The Fly London
July 18 Club EVOL Liverpool
July 19 Barfly Cardiff
Cut Off Your hands are:Nick - vox
Phil - bass
Michael - guitar
Brent – drumsMySpace.com - CUT OFF YOUR HANDS - Auckland, London, UK - Powerpop / Punk / Pop - www.myspace.com/cutoffyourhands
Freshers University Tour
Sep
16 Uni West Scotland, Paisley
18 Dundee Uni
19 Edinburgh Uni
20 Edinburgh Heriot Watt Uni
21 Glasgow, Strathclyde Uni
22 Glasgow, QM Uni
24 Huddersfield Uni
25 Uni Central Lancs, Preston
26 Liverpool Uni
28 Birmingham Uni
29 Leeds Uni
30 Warwick Uni
Oct
2 Manchester Met Uni
3 Leicester Uni
4 Staffordshire Uni
5 Sheffield Uni
6 Hull Uni
7 Derby Uni
9 Loughborough Uni
10 Chester Uni
11 London, Goldsmiths
13 Southampton Uni
15 Plymouth Uni
16 Bournemouth Uni
17 Kent Uni (Canterbury)
“Joyful” The Guardian
"Honestly, what’s not to love? "-NME
“Pop-punk charm” FACT
“Swoonsome” Shortlist
“Infectious rock’n’pop” The Fly
“(COYH's) hit with the pop energy of Hot Hot Heat, the angular bouncing madness of Les Savy Fav, and slow down occasionally to the pace of The Hives”- Drowned in Sound
Cut Off Your Hands - Expectations [Video Streams]
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/wmedia/wmiuk/cutoffyourhands/expectationsv_hi.asx
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/wmedia/wmiuk/cutoffyourhands/expectationsv_lo.asx
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/real/wmiuk/cutoffyourhands/expectationsv_hi.rm
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/real/wmiuk/cutoffyourhands/expectationsv_lo.rm
‘Expectations’
sixsevenine
18th August 2008
‘Expectations’ is the first single to be taken from Cut Off Your Hands’s highly anticipated debut album ‘You and I’ produced by Bernard Butler (Manic Street Preachers, Suede, Libertines, Duffy) and released on sixsevenine recordings this summer. Expectations is set to be the ultimate summer dance floor filler - heartfelt, urgent indie pop, full of cleverly chorused melodies, sparkling guitars, harmonic bass lines and a backbone of creative drum rhythms stampeding like a heard of wild horses. Energetic frontman Nick boldy sings “Oh these expectations / are pulling at me / oh I just can’t hold on” making this a tightly woven tapestry set for festival stages worldwide. Cut Off Your Hands have a canny knack of producing short sharp melodic pop songs that get ingrained in ones’ brain, finding them a host of fans including old tour mates Foals, and Les Savy Fav to name but a few.
Cut Off Your Hands have been touring persistently for the past six months; having left their native New Zealand shores in pursuit of bigger stages, they recently joined The Black Kids and The Wombats on their prospective UK tours, and are now currently preparing for their own headline UK tour this month, following which they will fly to USA for a full tour of the major cities. They will appear at UK festivals: as well as Japan’s Summersonic festial in August.
In their short time on both record and stage, Cut Off Your Hands have created a slew of melodic and downright memorable music. From the romantic naivety of ‘Oh Girl’ and ‘Happy As Can Be’, to the speeding, hyper-love balladry of the pop-paean ‘Still Fond’, the four-piece have shownthey’ve got what it takes to grab the world by it’s collective scruff and shake them into spinning, lovesick action. Not so sweet as perhaps their lyrics might suggest, (lyrics which should be heard with a heavy dose of irony) Cut off Your Hands live show should come with a health and safety warning.
Bloggers recently hyped up the band’s brilliant lo-fi covers of The Sonics, Split Ends, and The Buzzcocks which are doing the rounds, some of which have provided extra sparkle in the band’s sizzling live show.
The debut album is set for release this winter
UK dates 2008
June 13 Colchester Arts Centre Colchester
June 15 Norwich Arts Centre Norwich
June 16 Roadmender Northampton
June 18 ULU London
July 15 Freebutt Brighton
July 16 Night & Day Manchester
July 17 The Fly London
July 18 Club EVOL Liverpool
July 19 Barfly Cardiff
Cut Off Your hands are:Nick - vox
Phil - bass
Michael - guitar
Brent – drumsMySpace.com - CUT OFF YOUR HANDS - Auckland, London, UK - Powerpop / Punk / Pop - www.myspace.com/cutoffyourhands
Freshers University Tour
Sep
16 Uni West Scotland, Paisley
18 Dundee Uni
19 Edinburgh Uni
20 Edinburgh Heriot Watt Uni
21 Glasgow, Strathclyde Uni
22 Glasgow, QM Uni
24 Huddersfield Uni
25 Uni Central Lancs, Preston
26 Liverpool Uni
28 Birmingham Uni
29 Leeds Uni
30 Warwick Uni
Oct
2 Manchester Met Uni
3 Leicester Uni
4 Staffordshire Uni
5 Sheffield Uni
6 Hull Uni
7 Derby Uni
9 Loughborough Uni
10 Chester Uni
11 London, Goldsmiths
13 Southampton Uni
15 Plymouth Uni
16 Bournemouth Uni
17 Kent Uni (Canterbury)
“Joyful” The Guardian
"Honestly, what’s not to love? "-NME
“Pop-punk charm” FACT
“Swoonsome” Shortlist
“Infectious rock’n’pop” The Fly
“(COYH's) hit with the pop energy of Hot Hot Heat, the angular bouncing madness of Les Savy Fav, and slow down occasionally to the pace of The Hives”- Drowned in Sound
Cut Off Your Hands - Expectations [Video Streams]
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/wmedia/wmiuk/cutoffyourhands/expectationsv_hi.asx
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/wmedia/wmiuk/cutoffyourhands/expectationsv_lo.asx
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/real/wmiuk/cutoffyourhands/expectationsv_hi.rm
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/real/wmiuk/cutoffyourhands/expectationsv_lo.rm
