Classic Rock

The Black Hands

“The rest of the band could be trying to sing a Kylie song, and with my voice it’d still sound like bluesy rock!”

HEN THE BLACK Hands were considering where to shoot a photo for the cover of their debut album, you’d like to think they saw this place and said, “Bingo!” The cover of said debut, , finds the Chesterfield four-piece standing beneath a giant faded sign on the side of a building of the same name. “It’s an old bingo hall [see what we did there?] near where our guitarist lives,” explains singer Andy Gannon. “We always said to each other, if we ever do an album, that’s got to be the cover.”

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