AUSSIE SPOTLIGHT: Hands of Hope
When it comes to the Australian hardcore scene, it can be a mixed lolly bag. On the one hand you have the dry, stale and expired. Like the candy itself, you know instantly the reception will leave a bad response. On the other side, you have the desirable and anticipated.
While, “great” bands are few and far between, only coming along every so often, it’s the aspiration shown by certain local upstart groups that drive the scene forward. They're the ones booked out almost every weekend to play shows, with the aim to grow and improve.
Hands of Hope fit this description like a glove. With their debut, self-titled EP, the Melbourne melodic-hardcore quintet has been gaining a fair amount of attention within their domestic surrounds.
We catch up with the group pre-show in Melbourne to gain an insight into current band life. What emerges is an open and strong collective, which belies their young professional and personal age.
"The response [to the EP] so far has been ridiculously go...
