Shaking Hand follow up their acclaimed debut with a glistening cover of Badly Drawn Boy's The Shining, to announce a 17 date EU tour. Paying homage to an often overlooked time in Manchester’s music scene, the band turn the original's swelling brass & strings into blissful post-rock guitars. The track pulls back to the bands earliest inspirations as children in the car back seat, as George explains.
"Badly Drawn Boy is an important artist for me and Fred as he frequently soundtracked a lot of our younger lives, long car journeys in particular. The Hour of Bewilderbeast is an album I still come back to and has probably had the most longevity in our lives so I've always wanted to cover a song from this album. We didn't just want to cover that was just a re hash of the original and with the Shining we could instantly put our own spin on by changing the instrumentation. It's nice to play a song from an era of Manchester music that can sometimes feel overlooked because the music wasn't all maracas and bucket hats."
It's already made all of the bands' Dads cry and had the seal of approval from B.D.B himself, and comes alongside the announcement of a debut European tour in November 2026. The tour crosses Northern Europe and back and is headlined by the band’s biggest headlines to date at Manchester’s The White Hotel and Brixton’s Club Cheek.
The artwork is entitled ‘QTH 73’ by Brighton based artist Max Mitchell. Shaking Hand are George Hunter (Vocals, Guitar), Freddie Hunter (Drums) & Ellis Hodgkiss (Bass).
Shaking Hand Live Dates
25th April 2026 - The Carousel, Nottingham
15/16th May 2026 - The Great Escape, Brighton
19th June 2026 - The Orielles Support @ ICA, London
23rd August 2026 - Pukkelpop Festival, Belgium
5th September 2026 - Manchester Psych Fest
7th September 2026 - End of the Road Festival, Dorset
29th October 2026 - Club Cheek, London
30th October 2026 - Green Door Store, Brighton
31st October 2026 - Louisiana, Bristol
3rd November 2026 - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
6th November 2026 - The White Hotel, Manchester
8th November 2026 - The Hug & Pint, Glasgow
23rd November 2026 - Supersonic, Paris
24th November 2026 - Cactus, Bruges
25th November 2026 - Botanique, Brussels
26th November 2026 - Cinetol, Amsterdam
28th November 2026 - VERA, Groningen
29th November 2026 - Hafenklang, Hamburg
30th November 2026 - Shokoladen, Berlin
1st December 2026 - Meet Factory, Prague
2nd December 2026 - Noch Besser Leben, Leipzig
4th December 2026 - Manufactur, Schorndorf
5th December 2026 - Rotundes. Luxembourg
