'The Man With The Stereo Hands' is the performing name and musical alter ego of Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Neil Dwerryhouse.
The name originates from a song written by Rex Stinson, guitarist from indie-pop shoe-gazers Strawberry Story, a band that recruited Neil to provide extra guitar and catchy keyboard riffs, both Live and in the studio in the early 1990s.
'The Man with the Stereo Hands' was released as a 4 track E.P. on Vinyl Japan records in 1992 and features a caricature of Neil on the Front cover.
The name originates from a song written by Rex Stinson, guitarist from indie-pop shoe-gazers Strawberry Story, a band that recruited Neil to provide extra guitar and catchy keyboard riffs, both Live and in the studio in the early 1990s.
'The Man with the Stereo Hands' was released as a 4 track E.P. on Vinyl Japan records in 1992 and features a caricature of Neil on the Front cover.
Between 1992 and 1995, Neil played guitar for 'Mark Burgess & the Sons of God'. The band toured the USA, Germany, France and the UK and featured Mark Burgess and John Lever from much acclaimed, influential eighties post-punk Manchester band The Chameleons.
Songwriter, Manchester hero and 'Elbow' inspiration the late Bryan Glancy (aka the Seldom Seen Kid) joined them on stage for the UK gigs.
Neil and the late Bryan Glancy (seldom seen kid) on stage at the Powerhaus, London 1993
Mark Burgess , Bryan Glancy and Neil on stage at the Powerhaus, London 1993
Two 'Sons of God' Live CD albums were released, 'Live in Manchester 1993'
and 'Spring blooms tra-la'.
A studio album 'Paradyning' (dead dead good records) was released under the name of 'Mark Burgess & Yves Altana' in 1995.
It contains the song 'Adrian Be' which Neil receives a co-writing credit for. His guitar and bass playing can be heard on various tracks on the album.
In more recent times Neil has played numerous gigs combining original material with covers. A full electric sound was achieved for these early gigs in around 2006 by playing Live guitar and singing vocals over the top of high quality self produced backing tracks that had Neil playing bass guitar mixed with a programmed drum machine.
However in 2011 Neil now favours more of a Live approach to performing. Using only an electro-acoustic guitar and looping pedal (used sparingly).
In 2007 a 13 track retrospective CD album of home studio original songs (A to D in STEREO) was released and sold via the stereohands website and is now a collectable CD rarity, although responding to collectors requests, there are plans in early 2012 to make the tracks available for download.
An album of original material 'Darkest Days' was Digitally Released via the website Bandcamp in June 2010.
It contains full electric versions of nine songs with Neil playing all Instruments on the recordings in addition to vocals, production and mixing.
A Limited edition run of 'Darkest Days' CDs with colour sleeve and jewel case is available to buy at 'open mic' performances, gigs and festivals.
and 'Spring blooms tra-la'.
A studio album 'Paradyning' (dead dead good records) was released under the name of 'Mark Burgess & Yves Altana' in 1995.
It contains the song 'Adrian Be' which Neil receives a co-writing credit for. His guitar and bass playing can be heard on various tracks on the album.
In more recent times Neil has played numerous gigs combining original material with covers. A full electric sound was achieved for these early gigs in around 2006 by playing Live guitar and singing vocals over the top of high quality self produced backing tracks that had Neil playing bass guitar mixed with a programmed drum machine.
However in 2011 Neil now favours more of a Live approach to performing. Using only an electro-acoustic guitar and looping pedal (used sparingly).
In 2007 a 13 track retrospective CD album of home studio original songs (A to D in STEREO) was released and sold via the stereohands website and is now a collectable CD rarity, although responding to collectors requests, there are plans in early 2012 to make the tracks available for download.
An album of original material 'Darkest Days' was Digitally Released via the website Bandcamp in June 2010.
It contains full electric versions of nine songs with Neil playing all Instruments on the recordings in addition to vocals, production and mixing.
A Limited edition run of 'Darkest Days' CDs with colour sleeve and jewel case is available to buy at 'open mic' performances, gigs and festivals.
A totally acoustic version of 'Darkest Days' was made available to download via the website Bandcamp on March 9th 2011.
'The Acoustic Sessions', is essentially a stripped down version played entirely on Acoustic guitar with just vocals, tambourine, the odd handclap and Irish bodhran drum thrown in for good measure.
The Totally acoustic album contains two bonus tracks, 'Catch 22' and 'I Feel LIke Einstein' which are not currently available to download anywhere else.
In May 2011, Neil re-joined Mark Burgess and John Lever from 'The Chameleons" on electric guitar for their touring band project 'ChameleonsVox'.
The tour so far in 2011 has taken in dates supporting 'Mercury Rev' in the UK, an appearance at the'Strummercamp' festival and headline dates in Holland, Germany and Portugal and a 4 week tour of the USA.
It's the first time in 17 years that Mark, John and Neil have appeared on stage together since playing gigs under the name of 'Mark Burgess & the sons of God' in the early 1990s.
Video footage of the gigs in Germany can be seen here
See the MP3 store for details of howo hear he album and download individual tracks or the whole album.