Tag: Hands Off Gretel
Hands Off Gretel/Air Drawn Dagger/FUS – Sheffield, The Leadmill – 7 September 2021
Arriving at Sheffield’s iconic, and sold out, Leadmill, you couldn’t help but notice the wide range of audience members that would be attending the Hands Off Gretel gig that night in the fast growing queue. The old and the young, the misfits and the outcasts, the passionate alternative music lovers and young bands such as Blood-Stained Reputation; all eagerly awaiting the doors as they shared the excitement of seeing the band that brought them together.
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Steelhouse Festival – Ebbw Vale, Hafod Y Dafal Farm – 23-25 July 2021
As a general rule of thumb, Steelhouse Festival is full of people who have been attending since 2010. The performance of lateral flow tests and the year delay was not going to dampen the spirits of some of the hardiest festival goers in the ÜK. At over 1000 feet above sea level, on a farm that serves as a good site for wind turbines, it doesn’t take too much imagination to realise it’s going to be windy and open. Punters were queuing on the road from 10.15am, with the gates not opening ‘til midday. However, it was hard not to spot anyone in the crowd who didn’t have a grin as wide as the valleys below. The ability to recognise people from the nose to the chin helped as they weren’t covered in facemasks. This helped restore a semblance of normality.
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FESTIVAL NEWS: Ramblin’ Man Fair confirms first 2021 acts
Ramblin’ Man Fair have confirmed the first acts for the 2021 iteration of the Maidstone-based weekender.
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HANDS OFF GRETEL ENCOURAGE FANS TO ‘DITCH THE LABEL’ IN ANTI-BULLYING DRIVE
Über Rock’s favourite garage grunge punks, Hands Off Gretel, have published a special 48-page full colour fanzine, which includes more than 70 pieces of individual fan art. The ‘zine will help raise funds for Brighton-based anti-bullying charity ‘Ditch the Label’, which was chosen by band front woman Lauren Tate, who recently spoke out about the impact of years of bullying and online harassment.
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – TORCHIA
We had a bit of a helping hand when it came to choosing our latest ‘Video Of The Week’, as our 11-year old grand-daughter was staying over at ÜRHQ, and she decided it would be a cool idea to make her first contribution to the site. And, so, down she sat and watched each and every one of the 70-odd videos that had come our way over the past seven days, initially whittling them down to down to a shortlist of ten entries and then agreeing our final selection.
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Hands Off Gretel/Scathed – Belfast, Voodoo – 14 February 2020
Sure, what would you rather be doing on Valentine’s night? Sitting in an over-priced restaurant eating a meal that costs twice as much as on any other evening of the year? Or joined with a bunch of like-minded peeps enjoying one of the most exciting live bands on the circuit making their first ever visit to this wee corner of the Überverse? Yep, you can guess which option your Über crüe plumped for…
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FESTIVAL NEWS: Ramblin’ Man Fair completes Friday and Blues stage line-ups
The full line-ups for the Friday main stage and Sunday’s Blues stage at next summer’s Ramblin’ Man Fair have now been completed.
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Lauren Tate – ‘Songs For Sad Girls’ (Trash Queen Records)
Lauren Tate will be familiar to many loyal and attentive ÜR readers as the face and voice of Yorkshire grunge punks Hands Off Gretel, who have graced these very pages on many occasions and never once failed to poke all the right rock ‘n’ roll buttons as far as we are concerned. Now, she has proven once again that she has plenty to say, and extremely loudly, but this time outside the confines of the band, with her latest solo offering – and what a fucking gem of an album it is: one which definitely, and defiantly, screams to be heard by every self-respecting punk ‘n’ roller in this hoary old Überverse…
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THE ÜBER ROCK SINGLES CLUB – STONKING SEPTEMBER (PART ONE)
Well, did everyone enjoy their summer? Such as it was anyway? Well, the sun may now be in the descendant and the nights starting to draw in, and there may be a definite chill returning in the air we breathe, but that doesn’t stop the rock ‘n’ roll action remaining hot, hot, HOT here at ÜRHQ, where we are proud to declare that the bar is once again fully stocked and the jukebox has been loaded with the hottest tunes to have come our way in the past couple of weeks…
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VIDEO RELEASE: Hands Off Gretel show why they’re ‘Freaks Like Us’
Über-approved bubblegum grungers Hands Off Gretel have released a video for ‘Freaks Like Us’, taken from their current album, ‘I Want The World’.
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TOUR NEWS: Hands Off Gretel announce summer dates
Hands Off Gretel have announced a string of summer dates to promote their new album, ‘I Want The World’, which was released at the end of March on their own Puke Pop label.
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The Über Rock Singles Club – Awesome April (Part One)
With this weekend having hosted Record Store Day, the annual celebration of all that is good and great about rock ‘n’ roll, and the vinyl format in particular, as well as the independent scene, your favourite kick-ass website has been trawling through it’s mountain of mail to bring you another selection of what we see as the best short-form offerings to have come our way over the past week or two… so, without further ado, let’s dive straight into our bulging mail sack, shall we?
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