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Introducing Velcro Hooks

• 17th Oct 2012

Velcro Hooks will release the EP Gymnophoria on 19th November

The faint origins of Velcro Hooks’ formation was spawned in the distant city of Guatamala. This freak meeting between England and Canada occurred in a gnarly hostel amidst an ocean of bed bug ridden mattresses; indubitably through the improbable mutual admirations of machetes and moustaches.

This introduction inevitable led to a suitably ridiculous following fortnight; including high minded temples, volcanoes, many a cerveza and general ruffian-ship.

Obviously these endeavours had to end at some point. Farewells were made and Jenner Blank and Thomas Mason made the return visit to their origins respectively, Vancouver and Bristol. But this wasn’t the end…

A rather uneventful year passed with Vancouver eating beans, and bristol cultivating plants, but fate was destined to prevail!

With the impromptu arrival of Vancouver born in Bristol town, an explosion of experimentation was initiated, of the audible variety. Not without of course introducing an additional pair of English miscreants (Dominic Mitchison and George Garrett)

After a year or so of dirtying unsuspecting eardrums, these velcro creatures of the night were caught by a different nocturnal noisy predator. Howling owl records took the sharp paws of the Hooks under their wing, so to speak. They supported fellow bands like ‘Towns’, ‘Weird Dreams’ and ‘La Sera’ and went on a day trip to the beach to create the video to their debut single, ‘The Surfing Song’, receiving positive reviews from GoldFlakePaint, SexBeat & MusicBrokeMyBones

And so we arrive in the present, with prospects of being undressed by the audience’s ears and eyes. Gymnophoria…Released 19/11/12

Live dates:

18th Oct – Towns EP Launch @ Start the Bus, Bristol
10th Nov – Fear Of Fiction Festival – ArtRocker Stage, Bristol
17th Nov – Velcro Hooks Gymnophoria Ep Launch @ Bristol TBC