The Velvet Hands

CORNISH GARAGE ROCK N ROLL BAND X
The Velvet Hands are Toby Mitchell, Dan Able, Louis Mitchell and John Logan. After forming amidst Cornwall’s blistering garage-rock scene, the four-piece relocated to London and have been making a name for themselves on the capital’s underground guitar circuit ever since.
Praised as being “full of bolshy spirit” by NME, the band’s self-recorded debut album was Huw Stephens’ Album Of The Week on Radio 1. Garnering comparisons to the likes of The Clash, The Cribs and The Libertines, The Velvet Hands have also caused a stir with a range of tastemakers including Fred Perry Subculture, Gigslutz, God Is In The TV, Louder Than War, and The Rodeo Magazine.

Gaining airplay on BBC 6 Music, BBC Introducing and Radio X, they have performed two sessions for John Kenndy who proclaimed: “Every track they've released has been a hit as far as i'm concerned”.

Hand-picked by Michael Eavis to support Elbow at the 2022 instalment of the infamous Pilton Party, the band have also supported leading acts like Fontaines D.C., VANT, Wallows, Frank Turner, Trampoline, Paul Weller and Liam Gallagher. Taking in extensive headline tours of the UK of their own, the band have sold out The Lexington and Omeara in London, Old Bakery Studios and The Cornish Bank in Truro and Falmouth, and achieved near sell-outs in Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and Cardiff. Festival regulars, The Velvet Hands have also headlined the This Feeling stage at Truck Festival, killed a main stage slot at Perranporth’s Tunes In The Dunes and performed at Cornwall’s The Great Estate, pulling in the largest daytime crowd in the process. With word beginning to spread across the channel, the band played and sold out Supersonic in Paris in both March 2023 and April 2024.

In 2023, the band released their second album ‘Sucker Punch’ to widespread praise. Delivering coming-of-age tales with slacker-rock sensibilities, the album combined the punchy guitar licks of The Strokes or Parquet Courts with rousing punk choruses reminiscent of The Clash or The Vaccines. The ten-track LP was recorded by John Logan at The Cube Studios in Cornwall, produced and mixed by John Logan and JamX Jules at Par Studios and mastered by the legendary John Cornfield (The Stone Roses, Supergrass, Muse). It was followed by an extended vinyl version of ‘Sucker Punch’ in 2024, released via Krautpop Records.

Rounding off 2024 in style, the band supported Hard Fi at their sold-out Roundhouse gig at the personal request of Hard Fi frontman Richard Archer and recently undertook a series of Independent Venue Week gigs in January, played the Plymouth Sound Factory Festival in March and sold out Camden's Dingwalls on March 22nd.

With their ‘Caller’ EP out in May, preparations for the band’s third album are already underway with a release being eyeballed for Spring 2026. Watch this space for more from The Velvet Hands very soon…






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