BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:360exp REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b6b84def-d604-49bb-969c-c1f7bac72d9b@360exp.net SEQUENCE:29842476 DTSTAMP:20260928T010211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260927T223630Z DTSTART:20261027T190000Z DTEND:20261027T224500Z SUMMARY:Lots Of Hands - Live 2026 + Support: Flooding LOCATION:Hafenklang DESCRIPTION:Lots Of Hands:\n\n into a pretty room— lots of hands’ debut on Fire Talk Records — exists in the tear-stained early mornings of ado lescence\, just as the sun makes its first appearance over the horizon and thoughts of the night before begin to subside. A collage of reworked demo s\, freewheeling session standouts\, and swatches of instrumental electron ics\, into a pretty room emerges as lots of hands’ most thoughtful work to-date. Solemn yet hopeful\, into a pretty room occupies the space betwee n moments of tragedy and triumph\, offering a touching rumination on grief and loss\, growing up and letting go.\n\n Billy Woodhouse and Elliot Dryd en\, the core duo behind lots of hands\, first connected in a Newcastle sc hool music program at age 16. At that point\, Woodhouse had been tinkering with lots of hands as a solo musical outlet\, self-releasing music on Sou ndcloud and quietly beginning work on 2020’s mistake. Shortly before tha t record’s release\, Dryden properly joined lots of hands\, an effort wh ich was quickly thwarted by global circumstances outside of anyone’s pur view. Separated by geography and global chaos\, Woodhouse and Dryden began work on lots of hands remotely\, exchanging demos online to craft what wo uld become 2021’s largely instrumental there’s someone in this room ju st like you\, and 2023’s cult favorite fantasy. into a pretty room marks the duo’s first truly collaborative effort\, with Dryden often trekking the vast northern English countryside to write and record in Woodhouse’ s bedroom studio.\n\n Between pints of beer and rounds of Fortnite\, the t wo slowly chipped away at into a pretty room\, whose name is lifted from a pair of demos recorded and released in a short span across November of 20 23. The earnest tenderness of these tracks — “into a pretty room” an d “the rain”\, which appear newly re-recorded for the album — served as guiding light while the duo self-engineered the remainder of into a pr etty room. Alongside these newly recorded songs appear Dryden’s unearthe d 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 frills\, „Everyone but me will always win.“ Elsewhe re\, “masquerade” interrogates defense mechanisms through electronic-s peckled indie folk that is both jaded and joyful.\n\n Dryden’s tracks ap pear alongside Woodhouse’s own songs\, which span from touching instrume ntals written for family\, meant to help usher them through a chapter of m onumental loss\, to whispered ballads sung with loved ones. “All of my f riends 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 album stunner\, “run your mouth\,” he imagines a lost one as “a bunch of stars\,” and ends the song fixated on “thou ghts and memories of us.” Woodhouse’s contributions across into a pret ty room ache with loss\, but settle gracefully into sparkling ambient soni cs that propel the record on its trajectory of self-discovery and acceptan ce. “Death is just a word\, the feelings a reminder of past nights in th e cold\,” he filters through pitch corrected vocals on “the rain\,” before sighing a resigned “oh well.”\n\n These individually conceived tracks passed back and forth between the duo\, as they ventured into their first moments of writing in the same place at the same time. “backseat 30” is the duo’s first joint venture\, and the most immediate song in their discography\, transforming youthful anxieties into an explosive anth em. „I don’t wanna waste my life up\,“ Woodhouse manifests atop laye rs of twangy and kinetic instrumentation\, „hitting the backseat 30\, ta lking with the dogs and the birdies\, getting my nails all dirty.“ Early album centerpiece\, “barnyard\,” marks another proper collaboration o n the record\, with Woodhouse and Dryden’s vocals intertwining and refle cting a quiet sadness as looped guitars swirl in a pool of sparkling instr umentation: “I’ll brush your hair through a nightmare\, breathing in t he country air.”\n\n Newly relocated from Leeds to their current base of Newcastle-upon-Tyne\, lots of hands is anchored by the duo’s friendship \, which emanates across the album’s 14 tracks. While conceived across p ainful moments of growth and grief\, into a pretty room is a decidedly hop eful effort\, crafted between two friends who have spent the better part o f the last decade supporting each other through life’s challenges.\n\nBo letos: https://www.tixforgigs.com/Event/74858/lots-of-hands-live-2026-supp ort-flooding-hafenklang-hamburg URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/b6b84def-d604-49bb-969c-c1f7bac72d9 b STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR