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The Lawrence Hands met up in 1999 following the departure of Chicago pop-punkers the Broadways, Slapstick, Baxter, and Tricky Dick. The cooperation of Brendan Kelly (vocals/bass), Neil Hennessy (drums), and Chris McCaughan (electric guitar/vocals) created music within the same vein of the previous rings: smart — frequently politically motivated — pop-punk with an intense, gritty advantage. Asian Man Information released the Lawrence Hands’ first record, A Led Tour of Chicago, in November of 1999, while their second record, Ghost Stories, implemented six months afterwards. Present Day Thoughts, a split discharge with Asian Guy peers the Chinkees, made an appearance in summer months 2001. After 13 direct a few months of touring and drunken debauchery, the Lawrence Hands joined pushes with Body fat Wreck for 2002’s Apathy and Exhaustion. THE BEST Story Ever Informed was released in Sept 2003; 2 yrs afterwards Cocktails & Dreams, a compilation of B-sides, live recordings, and stray monitors, surfaced. Their following full-length, Oh! Calcutta!, emerged in March 2006, accompanied by a statewide tour with NOFX. Apart from an EP in ’09 2009, the wryly entitled Buttsweat and Tears, the music group was not release a anything further until 2014, because of the associates’ participation in side tasks the Falcon and Sundowner, and Hennessy’s stint with Smoking cigarettes Popes. Actually, some thought the band acquired split totally, until they announced in past due 2013 that that they had agreed upon to Epitaph and will be releasing a fresh single, “Information from Yalta,” along with a full-length recording, Metropole, in January of the next year. The recording got a melodic, available sound and was hailed as their most adult effort up to now.
