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'The Man With The Stereo Hands' is the musical alter ego of Singer/Songwriter/Multi-instrumentalist - Neil Thin aka Neil Dwerryhouse.
The name comes from a song written by old school friend Rex Stinson, guitarist from nineties indie-pop shoe-gazers Strawberry Story, a band that recruited Neil to provide catchy keyboard riffs and extra guitar, both Live and in the studio.
'The Man with the Stereo Hands' was released as a 4 track E.P. on Vinyl Japan records in 1992 and features a caricature of Neil on the Front cover. Some have suggested that the actual song is about him, but this has yet to be confirmed or denied.
From an early age Neil has been writing and composing music and has played in dozens of bands over the years. Most notably in the 1990s supplying Space echo driven Guitar for Mark Burgess & the sons of God, on tour in the UK, Germany, North America and in the studio on the album Paradyning (1995) where a co-writing credit appears on the song 'Adrian Be'.
The band featured Mark Burgess and John Lever from post-punk cult Manchester band The Chameleons, and the touring Live set consisted mainly of both Chameleons classics and rare tracks such as 'The Healer' and 'Is it any wonder?' that were recorded just before The Chameleons split in 1987. The band also performed tracks from the Sons of God album 'Zima Junction' with Songwriter and Elbow inspiration Bryan Glancy joining them on stage for the UK gigs.
Two Sons of God Live CD albums were released, 'Live in Manchester' and 'Spring blooms tra-la'. If you're lucky you may still find these for sale on ebay but they are now increasingly rare.
Both recordings wrongly credit guitarist Neil as Neil Finn. This obvious mistake has been explained away by some unknown person mis-hearing his stage name at the time which was actually Neil Thin.
After disappearing into the musical wilderness, he returned to play Live in front of an audience for the first time in eight years at an open mike night in 2006. This performance led to gig bookings and a Singalong set of classic new wave, punk and indie cover versions delighted audiences for being something very different to the usual one man act. A full electric sound was achieved for these gigs with the drums and bass coming off a self-recorded backing track and the vocals and guitar played absolutely Live.
In 2007 a 13 track retrospective CD album of original solo recordings was released and sold via the stereohands website and is now a collectable rarity.
'The man with the Stereo hands' has been locked away in a studio in 2009 recording brand new songs for a new album entitled 'Darkest Days' which will contain the first original material to be released in 11 years.
'Darkest Days' is due for digital download release exclusively via 7digital.com on Monday 4th of January 2010.
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