MP3: Imagine I Had Hands - Dead sailor
Saving the best for last, our third and final featured demo act this week is Imagine I Had Hands. Instead of me telling you about them, I've decided to let mainman Adam McCormack speak for himself.
How did Imagine I Had Hands come to be and how has it evolved?
The whole thing started when I found myself without a band after leaving Dublin and my old band Sylvan to move to Denmark. I just began to record some idea tracks on my girlfriend's laptop. When I eventually discovered MySpace and created an account for the project the songs got a good response, so I decided to try forming a band. I really missed playing live and I thought the songs would work well in this context. I met Jens Højland, our bass player, at college and I knew our drummer Casper Ubbesen from when I lived in his hometown. The line up was complete by late November of last year.
Since then we have been going over some old home recordings and trying to figure out what will work and what won't. A lot of the songs turned out quite different when we played them as a band. We have just begun to write songs together at rehearsals. We plan to record a couple of these new songs with Jakob Hvitnov (Barra Head) this week actually. We are quite excited about them. I think they are a little more aggressive and urgent sounding.
How did you hook up with Jakob?
Recording with Jakob came about through our contact with Play/Rec. The guys at Play/Rec have been really supportive in helping us get this band going which is really flattering as there are so many amazing bands on that label. Its nice that they consider us worthy of their support. Anyway, they recommended Jakob to us and we had heard his work on the Play/Rec "Five years" compilation so we were delighted that, when we asked him, he was up for it.
We're still in the process of recording, but so far so great! Jakob is a very skilled engineer and in producing our music he has really had a lot of influence on how the songs have come together. Perhaps just as importantly he is a really cool and easy going guy. The atmosphere is very relaxed which makes things a lot easier and of course makes for better results. We are delighted with how things are sounding and we are excited about working with Jakob more in the future.
So what's next for the band then?
Next, we gotta play live. We are not quite veterans of the road yet with only two gigs under our belts so we are in desperate need of live experience. Our next gig is on May 9th in support of The Paper Chase. We hope to play throughout Denmark this year. We are also looking into playing some shows in my home country of Ireland during the summer and perhaps Germany later in the year. We will probably start thinking about a debut album towards October/November. By then we will have been together for almost a year so the timing would be nice.
Imagine I Had Hands - Dead sailor