Dominic Hislop, guitars & vocals Robert Wiesner, drums Pius Fox, Bass
Influences
Califone, Make Believe, Antelope, Battles, Deerhoof, Stephen Malkmus, Lou Barlow, Tom Verlaine, The Sea and the Cake, Bonnie Prince Billy, David Grubbs, Smog, Songs:Ohia, The Wedding Present, Bastro, Yo La Tengo, The Curtains, Ivor Cutler, Shellac, Hood, Mount Eerie, Microphones, Modest Mouse, Akron/Family, Angels of Light, The Wave Pictures, School of Language, Birthmark, Low, Mclusky, Silver Jews, Storm and Stress, Boards of Canada, Geoff Farina, Karate, Roland S Howard, Gorge Trio, The Mountain Goats, Herman Dune, Jeff and Jack Lewis, Field Music, Diane Cluck, The New Year, Bedhead, Labradford, John Fahey, The Black Keys, Tortoise, Tommy Guerrero, Mouse on Mars, Health, Mississippi John Hurt and Fred McDowell, Mice Parade, Owls, Euphone, Ornette Coleman, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, Animal Collective, The Dirty Projectors, Spoon, Cat Power, Motown, Daniel Johnston, Pavement, Gastr Del Sol, Palace, Neil Young, Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr, Mercury Rev, Swell, Archers of Loaf, Labradford, Don Caballero, Girls Against Boys, Codeine, Polvo, Slint, Bastro, Cap'n'Jazz, Joan of Arc, Sonic Youth, Felt, Lets Active, Go Betweens, Built to Spill, PJ Harvey, King of the Slums, Television, Orange Juice, Morrissey, The Smiths, New Order, Magazine, Joy Division, Buzzcocks.
The Hands Of The Wrong People are based in Berlin, Germany, and have existed in various forms and cities since 2001. Dominic, originally from Scotland plays guitar and sings, Robert, from Leipzig, plays drums and Berlin native, Pius plays bass.
"Spring Flakes", a CD of 10 new songs, recorded and mixed at the Map Room in Portland, maine by Ron Harrity, has been mastered and will be avaliable on the US based label Peapod Recordings. Cover image is by Leipzig based artist Henriette Grahnert. The CD can also be ordered through eMusic, itunes
or the Peapod website (www.peapodrecordings.com/hands.php). Click on image below.
2 self released CDs – "Three Quarters" 4 track EP (2002), "Sunny Spells" 7 track EP (2005) – are available by mail order, contact: wronghand at gmx dot net – and songs have been included on Berlinsongs compilations 1 & 2 (www.berlinsongs.com).
Dominic, who writes the songs, has done art and music things in Baltimore, Budapest, Glasgow, Leipzig and Turin since playing in the Edinburgh based Mutiny Strings with Hugh Duggie, who now plays in Okker (www.myspace.com/okkero) and in the short lived Idiot Half Brother with (amongst others) Harold Nono (www.myspace.com/haroldnono). Songs are arranged together with Robert, who joined in early 2006 and Pius, who joined on Bass in 2007.
Previous contributors / members: Jan Barich - drummer with Leipzig based Diario, Frank Rother - guitarist with Berlin based Sweetheart of the Rodeo, and Philip Graf - bassist with Leipzig based Sound Machine Sud.
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This Sunday July 27th! OPEN MIC L.J. FOX at Madame Claude Lübbener Str. 19, Berlin-Kreuzberg this time hosted by sibsi Everyone can play up to 3 SONGS. Sign up at 8pm.
