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SUMMARY:Lots Of Hands - Live 2026
LOCATION:Hafenklang
DESCRIPTION:into a pretty room— lots of hands’ debut on Fire Talk Recor
 ds — exists in the tear-stained early mornings of adolescence\, just as 
 the sun makes its first appearance over the horizon and thoughts of the ni
 ght before begin to subside. A collage of reworked demos\, freewheeling se
 ssion standouts\, and swatches of instrumental electronics\, into a pretty
  room emerges as lots of hands’ most thoughtful work to-date. Solemn yet
  hopeful\, into a pretty room occupies the space between moments of traged
 y and triumph\, offering a touching rumination on grief and loss\, growing
  up and letting go.\n\nBilly Woodhouse and Elliot Dryden\, the core duo be
 hind lots of hands\, first connected in a Newcastle school music program a
 t age 16. At that point\, Woodhouse had been tinkering with lots of hands 
 as a solo musical outlet\, self-releasing music on Soundcloud and quietly 
 beginning work on 2020’s mistake. Shortly before that record’s release
 \, Dryden properly joined lots of hands\, an effort which was quickly thwa
 rted by global circumstances outside of anyone’s purview. Separated by g
 eography and global chaos\, Woodhouse and Dryden began work on lots of han
 ds remotely\, exchanging demos online to craft what would become 2021’s 
 largely instrumental there’s someone in this room just like you\, and 20
 23’s cult favorite fantasy. into a pretty room marks the duo’s first t
 ruly collaborative effort\, with Dryden often trekking the vast northern E
 nglish countryside to write and record in Woodhouse’s bedroom studio.\n
 \nBetween pints of beer and rounds of Fortnite\, the two slowly chipped aw
 ay at into a pretty room\, whose name is lifted from a pair of demos recor
 ded and released in a short span across November of 2023. The earnest tend
 erness of these tracks — “into a pretty room” and “the rain”\, w
 hich appear newly re-recorded for the album — served as guiding light wh
 ile the duo self-engineered the remainder of into a pretty room. Alongside
  these newly recorded songs appear Dryden’s unearthed demos\, mined and 
 reworked by Woodhouse. Lead single “game of zeroes” puts Dryden front 
 and center on a Hank Williams-inspired ode to coming up short. „I play a
  game of zeroes\,“ he sings atop acoustic guitar\, piano and digital fri
 lls\, „Everyone but me will always win.“ Elsewhere\, “masquerade” 
 interrogates defense mechanisms through electronic-speckled indie folk tha
 t is both jaded and joyful.\n\nDryden’s tracks appear alongside Woodhous
 e’s own songs\, which span from touching instrumentals written for famil
 y\, meant to help usher them through a chapter of monumental loss\, to whi
 spered ballads sung with loved ones. “All of my friends agree\, you’re
  in my head\,” Woodhouse intones alongside close collaborator and former
  roommate Mage Tears\, “in my head with me.” On the understated late a
 lbum stunner\, “run your mouth\,” he imagines a lost one as “a bunch
  of stars\,” and ends the song fixated on “thoughts and memories of us
 .” Woodhouse’s contributions across into a pretty room ache with loss
 \, but settle gracefully into sparkling ambient sonics that propel the rec
 ord on its trajectory of self-discovery and acceptance. “Death is just a
  word\, the feelings a reminder of past nights in the cold\,” he filters
  through pitch corrected vocals on “the rain\,” before sighing a resig
 ned “oh well.”\n\nThese individually conceived tracks passed back and 
 forth between the duo\, as they ventured into their first moments of writi
 ng in the same place at the same time. “backseat 30” is the duo’s fi
 rst joint venture\, and the most immediate song in their discography\, tra
 nsforming youthful anxieties into an explosive anthem. „I don’t wanna 
 waste my life up\,“ Woodhouse manifests atop layers of twangy and kineti
 c instrumentation\, „hitting the backseat 30\, talking with the dogs and
  the birdies\, getting my nails all dirty.“ Early album centerpiece\, 
 “barnyard\,” marks another proper collaboration on the record\, with W
 oodhouse and Dryden’s vocals intertwining and reflecting a quiet sadness
  as looped guitars swirl in a pool of sparkling instrumentation: “I’ll
  brush your hair through a nightmare\, breathing in the country air.”\n
 \nNewly relocated from Leeds to their current base of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
 \, lots of hands is anchored by the duo’s friendship\, which emanates ac
 ross the album’s 14 tracks. While conceived across painful moments of gr
 owth and grief\, into a pretty room is a decidedly hopeful effort\, crafte
 d between two friends who have spent the better part of the last decade su
 pporting each other through life’s challenges.\n\nBoletos: https://dice.
 fm/event/8el9or-lots-of-hands-live-2026-27th-oct-hafenklang-hamburg-ticket
 s
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