Shaky Hands/Cut Off Your Hands + Marching Room @ Laundry 23rd Feb

woot!! I've been looking forward to checking Shaky Hands out... How long are they in OZ

is the dude from starky still managing them?

they're playing laneway

like this band

isn't Dave Benge managing them?

next week yo

Cut Off Your Hands new EP 'Blue on Blue' out July 14 on new label Levity.

Only time i saw these guys the lead singer had a broken leg and stull put on a seriously engergetic performance to like 30 people

I thought they were with speaknspell?

I thought they were with speaknspell?

correct.

Levity is a thing sponsored by Levi's Jeans.

Levity is the new music program put together by Levi's® Jeans that's about developing the careers of what we think are some the best young acts around. We'll be harvesting talent and providing them with the resources, to take their careers to the next level.

Levi's® Jeans has had a relationship with music and musicians for a long time with artists like The Stones, Dylan, Madonna and more recently Massive Attack, Air and locally with events like St Jerome's Laneway Festival. So now Levi's® Jeans is giving something back and playing a role in developing the careers of artists we love.

The first artist signed to the program is Cut off Your Hands (formerly known as Shaky Hands). Originating from Auckland, New Zealand the band is currently playing shows in the UK and recording their new EP which will be out on the Levity label June 2007. We'll be signing more artists throughout the year, so keep your eyes and ears peeled for Levity releases distributed through Inertia.

Correction: Maybe they were on speaknspell.

Well . . . not for this'n it seems . . .

http://myspace.com/levityland

"NME and Drowned In Sound have been championing their cause for ages and that belief only seems to be getting stronger. Currently the lads are in the studio recording a brand new EP with none other than Bernard Butler of Suede fame, who has played on and produced albums/singles with The Libertines, The Verve and Manic Street Preachers."

nick was modelling some levis a couple of weeks ago in brag

awful looking ad as well..

I heard Cut Off Your Hands being played on Polish radio the other day!!!

Hey everyone,

Brent here from Cut off your hands. I have some news to share with you as friends, fans of the band or anyone else who has supported us over the past three and a half years...

At the age of 16 I started losing my hearing; it began as a mild hearing loss which didn't overly alarm me or my specialists. Over the past six years however, there has been an uncertain yet steady decline in my ability to hear. At the age of 19 my hearing got to the point that I needed to wear hearing aids. Since then, the deterioration has slowed but is still steadily eating away at my ability to hear all frequencies. Recently I have started to lose hearing in frequencies which up until six months ago have been good. These frequencies are important for speech recognition and general functioning in everyday life. I have seen several different hearing specialists over this time and no one has been able to diagnose a real definite reason for the loss. One of the obvious guesses at a cause is loud music and the fact I’ve been playing the drums almost everyday for about 11 years.

My audiologist has told me of patients who are 90 years old, fought in wars and worked coal mines for most of their lives and yet still have better hearing than me. Some people have resilient ears, others do not and these inconsistencies in the tolerance of the human ear are very hard to measure. I haven’t played the drums without wearing ear plugs for six years now, yet still my hearing has degenerated. There is a chance that I was just born with a genetic predisposition for hearing loss, something beyond the damage that drumming can cause. After CT scans, MRI scans and 30-plus hearing tests, my specialists are still very unsure as to what is happening. However, there is a possibility that I have a low tolerance to noise exposure which is causing my ears to give up. Whether or not drumming has been the sole culprit I am told my exposure to loud music could be aggravating and accelerating the loss.

Sadly, the only way to know if drumming is inducing or aggravating the loss is to plainly stop playing loud music for 12 months - which in turn has made me decide to step down from Cut Off Your Hands for the next year. This decision represents much thought and was incredibly difficult for me to make. The concept of life outside of Cut Off saddens me; we have all devoted so much of ourselves to make this band work. I’m now thoroughly addicted to making music and it hurts to know I wont be sharing it with the guys I have enjoyed it with over the past many years. I don’t feel good about it but I believe it’s the right thing for me to do.

It is uncertain what the future will bring for me and Cut Off. I hope with all my heart that I can return to playing with the band but only time can let that be known.

I'm not writing this to ask for sympathy or pity, we all have shit going on in our lives; I merely want to say that I’m not giving up on Nick, Phil or anyone else who has shown support for what we have been doing. I believe in what we have done so far and I would still very much be apart of it if I had my own way.

By no means is this a disintegration or ending for the band. There are many more songs that need to be shared with you and we are all very excited for what 2009 has to offer.

Much love
Brent