Shaky Hand Hangover Band

The Shaky Hand Hangover Band are proud to be headlining the Bristol Cycle Festival closing party - WE LOVE BIKES; Lycra Lovers Vs Vintage-Velo.

Read all about the festival here or here.

Looking forward to the party, stumbled upon our band and don’t have a clue what to expect? Good, that’s the way we like it - but if you don’t like being kept in the dark then why don’t you listen to our recent appearance on BCFM for a bit of light on the matter.

Hello! (hello)

The Shakyhandhangoverband need to get back on the radar sharpish as the biggest greenest blip possible. What have we been up to? Well we played a gig at the croft and have another gig coming up on the 7th May, that’s right, 7th May at the trampshed. Any new songs? Well, not really although I am working on a Springsteen esque stadium filler with lines like “as anyone worth anything is after our blood let’s drink ourselves naked and dance in the mud.” Any videos? No, none of them either but that’s a good idea, thanks, we’ll get working on that. 

See you soon!

Working on a new song, the theme, loosely, is STD’s. “What makes you think you got it from me? There’s a lot of it about, I’m one of many let’s face it and There’s a lot of it about. No need to shout! not everyone has to know, it’s easily treated anyway and there’s a lot of it about.”

‘Write about you know’ does not apply here… honestly

Anonymous asked: There are continuous troubles in the Middle East.
There is hunger, genocide, and political unrest on the African continent.
We have environmental disasters in the Caribbean, South America, India and Pakistan.
Greece and Ireland are on the brink of economic collapse.
British politics is a shambles, democracy is a joke.
North Korea has nuclear weapons.
The war in Iraq and Afghanistan can not be won.

My question is: I think I like a girl, but she doesn't like me back. What can I do to make her love me?

First of all, I think you need to establish exactly what kind of love it is you’re looking for. Is it the kind of love a ten year old gives to her pet rabbit? Or the kind that a perverted thirty something gives to his pet daschund? Are you planning on rolling that love into a little ball and popping it into your mouth, letting it blissfully dissolve over a number of minutes, or chopping it into millions of equal pieces to use as currency? 

To offer a preliminary answer to your question using our medium, ‘music’, the band engaged in a night long jam session in complete darkness, listening to white noise through headphones so we couldn’t hear each other.

We then played the 13 hours of tape back. At each point that we happened to play 3 notes together, the chord was noted down and placed against a ‘Tirrode Chart’ which, when correlated alongside the exact date of the first time in their lives the band members asked “why?” will give you a set of page numbers for the ‘fatebook’ of the particular year you are using this system in. Of course, this being year 4.8b on the Alusi Ajana calendar, we had a couple of fatebooks to choose from.

If the question was posed by a conscious gas, we would have taken the reading from “Angel Uncovered” by Katie Price, but as we are assuming the question was posed by a human being, “Exit Wound” by Andy McNab was more appropriate. A semi transparent glass negative of Grigori Rasputin is placed over each selected page and the words covered by his pointed finger are arranged side by side to give you your answer. You are encouraged to meditate over the following:

“Crass and slotted naked bitumen towelhead, thighs the blistering zero fields.”

Thanks for your question.

todaykim asked: dear you guys

when will you be touring other parts of the country? say perhaps around the south coast of dorset in perhaps a charming seaside town..

thank you

The Shakyhandhangoverband thanks you, todaykim, for your question. Truth is we owe a fair amount of money to some big wheels down Dorset way, venturing across the Devon border could get us killed. But we’re certainly not ruling it out! Watch this space…