British Blues Award finalists The Idle Hands were championed as ‘Britain’s best unsigned blues-rockers’ by Classic Rock Magazine and voted third in the Blues Matters Writers Poll for Best UK Band.
Heavily influenced by the iconic British blues bands, they present passionate performances of hook-laden original songs.
They band come to The Met with their hotly tipped 2014 album, Feeding the Machine.
Dates & Times
The Box @ The Met
The Idle Hands
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