Cut Off Your Hands in New York

Cut Off Your Hands

No it’s not the name of a horror film, Cut Off Your Hands are band from New Zealand who i hung out with in New York.

I first met them by chance over take away pizza late one night in Austin.

Pizza Austin Cut Off Your Hands

I didn’t manage to catch them play at SXSW amongst the myriad of other things to see and do.

On my first day in New York i kept spotting so many great photo opportunities for band photos, so i was itching to do something. All the Australian bands i knew had already left town, so when i heard Cut Off Your Hands were playing at Pianos i ventured over with my pal Grace.

Cut Off Your Hands Pianos

Sure enough, they needed little coaxing when i offered to take some pictures of them the next day.

Cut Off Your Hands

The plan was to meet at MOMA at 5 and go from there, but due to numerous stuff ups we didn’t end up meeting till 7. By that time it was dark and they had less than an hour until they needed to be at Piano’s for another gig.

Cut Off Your Hands

Necessity being the mother of invention i took them to Times Square, the only place i could think of with enough reflected light to take photos outdoors.

Cut Off Your Hands

After that we hopped on the subway down to the venue where i took a few more shots in Ludlow St.

Cut Off Your Hands

After seeing them twice in two days i saw them play again on my third night at a loft party in the Lower East Side. Nick the singer did his usual antics of climbing onto anything he could think of. I’m not sure the New Yorkers knew what to make of it, but it sure was entertaining. Even for the third time in as many nights.

Cut Off Your Hands

9 Comments

  1. I like these shots Dan. The 4th one down would have been even cooler if there was steam coming out of that vent. But there’ll all awesome mate.

  2. This band looks very familiar – did they used to be called Shaky Hands?

  3. Yep, they were Shaky Hands till an American band with the same name got narky about it.

  4. Wow, how lucky are they for bumping into a brilliant photographer late one night! The pics are excellent!

  5. Photo number four spotted in this week’s TNT Magazine in London. Great stuff!

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