Choices of the Grasshopper August 2022

7 new indie injections to load your batteries for the 7 days to come.
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SEVEN IN THE MIX - WEEK 34

AUGUST 2022 PART IV

Part of Cornwall’s blistering garage-rock scene, and now a focal point of London’s underground guitar scene, The Velvet Hands (Toby Mitchell, Dan Able, Louis Mitchell and Sam Hilder) have an unashamed love of guitar based songwriting.

The band have supported the likes of Liam Gallagher, Fontaines DC, VANT, YAK + Wallows to name a few. They've toured nationally selling out dates in London, Truro, Cardiff and Glasgow. The band have also received airplay from the likes of Steve Lamacq at 6 Music, John Kennedy at Radio X and Sarah Gosling at BBC Introducing South West.

Of new single Holiday In My Head, guitarist Dan said: “It’s based on our own experience of the doldrums of being skint, working your arse off to be able to afford a postage stamp sized flat, only to have to shave in the kitchen sink because the landlord won’t fix the one in the bathroom. Take that and then put it in lockdown, it felt like the walls were closing in - very claustrophobic. You can’t escape to anywhere apart from your own daydreams. The song is an anthem of escapism in the modern era”.

Still DIY, still fiercely independent!

More info: https://linktr.ee/thevelvethands

Holiday In My Head

Ford

Prison and Palace and Reverberation

Radio Wires

Dead

Twin Ritual - Mercy
Written and Produced by Twin Ritual
Mix and Mastered by Antonio Estrada

Mercy

Stranger/Visitor

Stranger

Hey Dood

01/07/2022

On Your Mind

1000 Times

Everything Is Going To Be Alright

The Forest

Rollercoaster Ride b/w Peel

Peel

Rollercoaster Ride

NIGHT CRAWLING

Freakout/Release

https://open.spotify.com/album/2g92bVcUdaGqWWMyOU3oGv?si=HE5dY4PeREGvQh2TzNLQLw

All For Me

Are You Finished

Words and music by Fern Morris and Brian Pokora
Mixed and mastered by Dave Oscillation at Lost Oscillation
Artwork by Laura Meek
Supported by Creative Scotland

From forthcoming album, Closer For Comforting, out September 9th

Details

Will Of The People

Euphoria

Rollercoaster Ride

DAZY