Biography

Welcome to the dark, seedy and twisted world of The Guilty Hands…

Here you'll find bony girls washing away their sins in a cramped bathtub, two lovers ‘finding their way’ in a graveyard, suspicious husbands keeping more than one eye on their wives, masochists begging their tormentor for another shot of unbearable bliss, and a hysterical mob delivering a fiery brand of justice to an undeserving defendant.

The Guilty Hands do not allow the conventions of indie music to suppress their creative impulses, adding keyboards, electronic beats, samples, violin, and distorted synth basslines to the mix. Digging through the tracks reveals a catalogue of criss-crossing vocal lines, chiming clocks, harmonies and handclaps, distant voices, desperate gasps and whispers.

This is a band determined never to let their music become stale… In August 2009, The Guilty Hands were awarded £15,000 to record an album by investors at "slicethepie". They were first voted into a showcase by independent reviewers (from hundreds of competing bands), and then raised the money from fans and “slicethepie” users. The album, “Desire on a Short Leash", was recorded in winter/spring 2010 and is destined for an early 2011 release.