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The Shaky Hands could become legendary, if not for their fine brand of music reminiscent of early REM, Let’s Active, and The Byrds then for their on-going hilarious tour diary for a local Portland paper. On 4^th October, their online audio diary sounds like this:

“Oh, hey!” says interviewer and bassist, Mayhaw Hoons, with mock surprise, “Look it’s Nick Delffs, singer of The Shaky Hands. Nick?”

“Fuck off!”

“This is the Portland Willamette Week Tour Diary.”

“I don’t give a shit!”

“How are you preparing for tomorrow, playing in front of playing 8 million people?”

“Fuckin’ doin’ whatever I want to do when I want to do it where I want to do it.”

“Is that helping you get ready for tomorrow?”

“I don’t know when tomorrow’s gonna be.  I live in the moment.”

“Good point!” says Mayhaw before moving onto another bandmember.

Currently on tour with The Shins, The Shaky Hands take time out to ponder some imponderables with Music Towers. They are Nick the main songwriter on guitar and lead vocals, Colin Anderson on drums, Mayhaw on bass, Jeff Lehman on guitar, and Nick’s brother Nathan Delffs on pedal steel and percussion.

Their eponymous debut LP, already out in the US, will be due on British racks on 26th November (on Memphis Industries). The recording process had its ups and downs as Nick explains, “It was frustrating because we didn’t have a label at the time. It was frustrating to deal with the finances; how it was getting paid for. And it was a lot of fun.” It was engineered by Johnny Keener and Mark Mascorro. As Mayhaw says; “It was a combination of they were very knowledgeable and very good engineers and we also produced it with them. They were willing to try whatever weird ideas we had which was really nice.”

The band is already recording a follow-up for release early next year, this time featuring new member Nathan.  Nick points out some of the changes they have made, “The majority of the instruments are live. We recorded with a man called Nicholas Taplin. I guess he engineered it. We’re producing it.”