Show report/feature: Hot Hands, The Damned Thing, The Dirty Lowdowns, The Ones To Blame, dblWiDE at The Junkyard.

We went to Daytona Beach in the morning and played a show down the road at night in DeLeon Springs at The Junkyard with Dirty Lowdowns, Hot Hands, The Damned Thing, dblWiDE and The Ones To Blame. We took an ungodly amount of photographs. Read about it and see them here.

Hot Hands Tour Diary: Atlanta, GA with Ghost Bikini, Them Thangs, The Husseins at Star Bar and Thrift Shopping in Valdosta.

Read all about driving through Georgia to get to Atlanta. The Hot Hands tour moves north and the roads are littered with thrift stores. Read more and see the photographs.

HOT HANDS ARE PLAYING SATURDAY MAY 26 IN DELEON SPRINGS, FL

Event page here.

Feature: The filming locations from D.A.R.Y.L. twenty seven years later with Jeffrey and Adam TheWoo.

D.A.R.Y.L. was a movie that came out in 1985 about a boy with a robot brain who was smuggled out of a government laboratory to be adopted by a family. The boy struggles with himself as he becomes more "human" while his creators try to track him down in order to decommission him/the project. It starred Barrett Oliver (from The Neverending Story) as Daryl and Michael McKean (Spinal Tap, Laverne & Shirley) as the father.

The movie was filmed mostly Orlando, Florida and a small amount in North Carolina. In fact, it was the first major production filmed in the Orlando area with a budget of over $10 million dollars. In the 27 years since the release of the film Orlando has become common place to the movie industry. What has happened to the locations they used in the filming of D.A.R.Y.L.?

To answer that question comes former video store employee Adam TheWoo armed with a camera and a vast nerdish film knowledge from years of watching and rewatching movies. Over the past few years Adam has gone back to many filming locations such as Doc Hollywood, The Evil Dead, My Girl, Edward Scissorhands, The Exorcist, among many others showing what happened years after their filming. He started out creating side-by-side photo reenactments and moved into video, a medium he felt would have more impact.

I loved D.A.R.Y.L. as a kid and remembered seeing familiar places in the film like the ATM scene that was filmed in my hometown Winter Park and another scene at the intersection of South Street and Mills Avenue, a familiar driving spot. I read online he was beginning to look for locations and I gave him what information I could remember. In addition, I live within walking distance to four of the major shooting locales (the baseball field, Daryls house, Turtles house, the lake where the tree scene takes place). Next thing I know I'm invited to go along for the filming. I said "heck ya".

From watching Adam work I must say it is impressive the amount of work he pours into these videos. He says he can spend hours looking for spots using internet maps matching up the smallest details to get the exact spot.

Please watch the video and when you are finished you can scroll down to see some "behind the scenes" photographs I took.

More about this video with photographs are right here.

Hot Hands Tour Diary: St Augustine, FL with The Cougs, Thunderhoof, Anna Banana and Leah Yeppi.

We travel on to St Augustine!

Hot Hands Tour Diary: Orlando, FL with Lazy Boyzzz, Mountain Folk and Hot Hands (of course).

Follow us on tour! We had our kickoff show at Wills Pub in Orlando.

Lazy Boyzzz.

Show Report: NOBFEST 2012 with Hot Hands, Hungry Gayze, The Golden Pelicans, Pillowfight, The Caffiends, Dark Rides, Tubers, Teenage Softies.

In all my years of show going I never went to a show in St. Augustine until recently. I don't remember hearing much from news or listings at all. I do remember hearing something in the past four or five years about boat shows (yes, rock bands on house boats). So when I heard of a Festival with 36 "underground punk, psych and garage" bands over three days I'm going to take notice. New booking force Commoditie Booking organized it at a place called Nobby's Sports Tavern, a small bar just across the bridge from the famous Castillo de San Marcos National Monument. You can hear the booms from the cannons during the day. I wonder if you can hear the boom from the bands at night.......... Enjoy some photos from the second night of the festival, which featured mostly Orlando bands.

Denise from Pillowfight.

Show Report: Haochi Waves, Carnivores, Hot Hands, Mask Era, The Jellyfish Brothers, Dear Darling, Lillie, The Cost, Honey Train, The Talking Dogs, Dyslexic Postcards, Blackout Anima, The Astrokats.

Kristin and I have been longtime fans of the guy and gals behind Haochi Waves. For several years they used to be called Pretty Please and have evolved during the past year into reinventing themselves as Haochi Waves. After much work they have their first self released CD called 'Apparatus' and threw this massive party to celebrate. I think all in all they organized thirteen (mostly Miami) bands, only one having to cancel due to technical difficulties (they tried broadcasting Amanda Green from California). The bands played on two different stages at Churchills, one being the main stage and the second on the floor. While one band played the other was setting up so there wasn't any breaks in music for the whole night.

Churchills Pub in Miami, Florida.

Haochi Waves.

Mask Era.

Carnivores.

READ MORE ABOUT & ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPH HERE.

Back from Tour.

Tour was great. Chickfactor was awesome. It was tons of fun but now we're broke as heck! I am going through 500+ photos (and I haven't even gone through Kristin's photos). The best ones will be coming soon!

Hot Hands East Coast Tour: From Orlando to NYC.

Kristin and I are geared up for our little vacation/tour. We're going to Chickfactor Fest in NYC to see some of my favorite bands (Versus, Small Factory, The Aislers Set, Lois, Black Tamborine, and the Softies). We booked some shows for Hot Hands along the way up and back.

It's going to be the first time out of the Southeast (Thus far, we've been confined to Florida, Georgia and Alabama). We will have a special tour cassette with us, along with a new pressing of our CD and new shirts. I'm really excited about the cassette, it turned out really nice- eight songs in total including new recordings, live songs, and a song we've never played live (a song with only drums and bass guitar).

Here's the dates:

Mon 4/ 2 @ Wills Pub. Orlando, FL.
With Lazy Boyzzz, Mountain Folk. 9pm. Free. Event page.

Wed 4/4 @ Nobby's. St. Augustine, FL.
With: The Cougs. 10pm. Event page.

Thu 4/5 @ Star Bar. Atlanta, GA.
With: Ghost Bikini, Knaves Graves, The Hussiens. Event page.

Mon 4/9 @ Goodbye Blue Monday. Brooklyn, NY.
With The Nu Sonics, Art School Dropouts, Meisko. 8pm. Event page.

Fri 4/13 @ Bohemian Grove. Bushwick, NY. Details TBA.

Sat 4/14 @ The Cellar Door. Richmond, VA. 10pm.
With The Blue Rajas, Hot Dolphin. Event Page.

Sun 4/15 @ Wilmington, NC. TBA. Announcement soon.
With: Museum Mouth.

Mon 4/16 @ The Globe. Athens, GA.
With: Eureka California, Sleeping Friends.

More details will be at the Facebook Event Page. Please join and share this event. We need all the help we can get. Also reference our band page at www.hothandsband.com.

Hot Hands Tour Diary: Adventures and Travels along the Gulf Coast.

Hot Hands had just played a show the previous night at Orbit 19 in Holiday, Florida. Holiday is north of the Tampa Bay area by a few cities. It runs up Clearwater, Tarpon Springs and some other towns. They all kind of run together kind of like Orlando and it's surrounding cities. If Orlando was Tampa, Holiday would be Longwood. (19 photographs).

Addition: More photos from Orbit 19 by Christopher Clark.

Dadia, Kristin and Jeffrey. Photo by Christopher Clark.

Rescanned: Mineral, Jejune, The Get Up Kids.

I have a bunch of video tapes of shows I filmed in the late 1990's sitting on a shelf. I just bought a adaptor so I can watch them in a regular VCR so I filmed a song from Mineral. I don't have the hardware to properly convert them onto a computer so I sat in front of the teevee with a digital camera. Lame, I know but it's what I can do. The quality is not as good as the tape but I still wanted to share. The original show review is here, updated with this video as well as the three photographs that I took at the show.

 
Mineral "Parking Lot"

Jejune.

Hot Hands Tour Diary/Show Report: Room Full of Strangers, The Ex-Boogeymen, Hot Hands.

Gainesville trash punk band The Ex-Boogeymen.

Room Full Of Strangers.

Hot Hands.

Read the story about the mannequin shenanigans.

Gobble gobble.

Photo by Kristin Howard.

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