lots of hands Announce 2026 Tour & Share "barnyard" Video!
2025 was a whirlwind year for lots of hands, the UK duo of Billy Woodhouse and Elliot Dryden. Beginning in January, the two released their Fire Talk debut album, into a pretty room, to a wealth of praise from Stereogum, Paste, The FADER, BBC Radio and more. In the months following, lots of hands’ debut album mistake caught a wave of online virality. Amassing more than 20 million streams, 500 million views, and half a million user-generated creations, lots of hands cult-status reached new heights and cemented the band as a staple in the canon of young, self-produced, independent artists. lots of hands then released mistake (Deluxe Edition), collecting their early demos and b-sides to celebrate the album’s fifth anniversary. Shortly thereafter, the pair made their way to the states, embarking on their debut US tour and selling out shows in New York and Chicago along the way.
Today, lots of hands announce 2026 US tour dates, marking their stateside return for a slew of gigs supporting Lala Lala and a handful of headlining shows in New York City, Santa Ana, Sacramento and more. In addition, lots of hands present a newly-unearthed music video for “barnyard,” the “gorgeous” (Far Out) and “moody” (Brooklyn Vegan) standout from into a pretty room. “We’ve got a song called ‘barnyard’, and that song was the most fun me and Elliot had writing something,” Woodhouse revealed in an interview with CLASH, continuing: “We just blasted through it in a couple of hours, and it’s definitely my favourite song on the record.”
