Wavvy Hands

We added a few new shows.
Specifically 3.17 at WO-Stock in West Ottawa, MI. It’s a 2 day festival that raises money for charity work that the West Ottawa High School does. The night we play features our friends Elliot Street Lunatic as well as Joe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers and many more. A full lineup is posted here.

Check out our complete list of shows at http://wavvyhands.com/shows
Our next gig is this Saturday in Ypsilanti, MI with Bear Lake & Marco Polio and the New Vaccines! 

Didn’t drive anywhere today really.

Today was our show at the Root Bar in Asheville. It’s a cool little dive bar at the east end of town, quite a ways from downtown and everything else we’ve been exploring the last two days. We played to a small crowd of relatively enthusiastic people though. Everyone that gave any shits about the music came and told us what they thought of it, good and bad, which is awesome. That doesn’t always happen. If anything else, the people in the south are honest. One guy liked us enough that he tipped us in frozen steaks. Hopefully they make it back to the Mitten in our cooler!

Andrew tried his hand at some more busking downtown today without much luck. I explored the Blue Ridge Parkway a bit and took a look at their visitor center, where I learned quite a bit about the parkway and it’s history.

Tomorrow we head north to Johnson City, TN to play with a fellow Michigan artist named Mike Vial. Should be fun. It’s at the Acoustic Coffeehouse in Johnson City. 8pm. It’s a free show, but we always love some donations for gas!

Only 4 more days until we’re back home among friends and loved ones.
It’s been a fun journey, but we’re starting to miss home. 

- Corey. 

Our tour kicks off this Thursday at Rubble’s. We’re playing some cool towns and sharing the stage with some cool people:
Jan. 19 @ Rubble’s Bar - Mt. Pleasant, MI w/ Life Size Ghost, Ugly Broads
Jan. 21 @ Kofenya Coffee - Oxford, OH w/ Seajay (Bloomill)
Jan. 22 @ Green Bean - Greensboro, NC w/ Old Rusty Mandolin
Jan. 23 @ House Show - Greensboro, NC
Jan. 24 @ The Root Bar - Asheville, NC
Jan. 25 @ The Acoustic Coffeehouse - Johnson City, TN w/ Mike Vial
Jan. 26 @ The Rudyard Kipling - Louisville, KY w/ Huh Robots & The Lost River Cavemen
Jan. 27 @ TBA - South Bend, IN w/ Ratboy & Nathan K. (probably dorm show)
Jan. 28 @ Woobie’s - Flint, MI w/ Weatherbox, Elliot Street Lunatic, Good Weather for Airstrikes, Tiger! Tiger! and more

Come see us.

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Our EP “A Million Eyes” is also now available for download on our Bandcamp page.
It’s a “name your own price” set up for the digital version. If you pay ANYTHING for the EP, we will email you a brand new track called “Stethoscope” that we just finished last night and have not yet even played live. We’ll be playing it on Thursday night and throughout the tour, but you can get an exclusive sneak peak by paying even just $1 for our EP on our Bandcamp.

Support local music!
Support our crazy ideas for touring a lot in 2012! 

We start working on the 2nd EP today.
Release shows are already coming together (4/12 @ Rubble’s, 4/18 @ Mac’s Bar, more to come)

In the MEANTIME, you can pre-order the debut EP on our bandcamp page and help us cover the rest of the production costs.

The release show is this Thursday at Rubble’s Bar.
RSVP on Facebook 

Any monies we collect from sales of our EP and other merch will directly go towards touring throughout the next year and beyond.

Pre-Order at Bandcamp. 

Well, we formed as a band in August, played our first show 3 weeks later on August 25th and have played 20 shows total thus far. It’s been a whirlwind of ups and downs for sure, but mostly it’s been “ups.”

As some of you may already know, Nadia will no longer be playing with us. The show this Saturday will be her last. For now, anyway. We won’t rule out her playing every now and then, but she will no longer be a full member of the band due to multiple circumstances, most notably a personal decision to cut back as she also works a full time job, so personal time was basically non-existent between the job and Wavvy Hands for her. 

We’ve been blessed by having our friend Jon Miller fill in for us already on one show and he will fill in when he can. Andrew and I may be playing some shows as a two-piece as well until we find a permanent replacement. A few more friends of Wavvy Hands have offered their services on an interim basis whenever they can, and we’re happy to accept.

Our debut EP “A Million Eyes” is finally finished and will be getting duplicated next week. You can preview it on our music page or on Facebook right now and pre-order it on our Bandcamp page. Every pre-order/purchase of the EP will help us with our extensive touring schedule for 2012, which kicks off next weekend with a mini-tour of Chicago, Milwaukee and Lansing. Andrew and I both have never been to Milwaukee or the state of Wisconsin in general, so it will be a fun adventure.

Speaking of touring, we’re making 9 stops in 10 days January 19-28 in Michigan (Mt. Pleasant, Ann Arbor, Flint), Ohio (Oxford), North Carolina (Greensboro & Asheville), Tennessee (Johnson City), Kentucky (Louisville) and Indiana (South Bend). Full details are on our “shows” page. 

There are a lot of big plans in the works for 2012, including our 2nd EP, which will be coming out in April, more touring, some shows with some big national acts (like the one on February 21st at the Pike Room with Slow Club and Air Waves) and some festivals as well. We’ll be hitting new cities in addition to returning to towns that have already been so gracious to us like Marquette, Saginaw, Grand Rapids, Houghton, South Bend, Lansing and of course our hometown of Mt. Pleasant. 

To those who have already came out to a show, we really appreciate it. Keep showing your faces and we’ll keep making music for your ears. Tell your friends about us too. Word of mouth will always be the strongest form of promotion. To those who haven’t yet seen us play: what are you waiting for? Come see us at one of our shows soon, or at least check out our tunes.

Cheers. Have a safe and happy new year!
Corey
Wavvy Hands