What a weekend! After 4 years we made a return to Dougherty’s Pub to rock the O’Neill St. Patrick’s weekend celebration. And what a crazy 3 nights it was!

O’Neill is the Irish capital of Nebraska, in case you didn’t know, and if you’ve ever attended their celebration it’s obvious why they hold that title. They simply throw a St. Pat’s party that can’t be matched. The fact that revelers will travel to O’Neill from all over Nebraska (and beyond), is proof.

This was our 7th or 8th St. Pat’s (depending on which band member you ask) and it was equally as memorable as the others. Great crowds and our first attempt at live webcasting a show made it a very interesting time for us. If you didn’t happen to catch any of our video streams from the weekend, you can view the archived videos.

We’re planning to do more live webcasts as we refine our process and also deal with different venue capabilities. But we’ll be sure to give you a “heads up” when we plan to do it again. Now on to the pictures…enjoy!

Last night we successfully streamed our show from Dougherty’s Pub in O’Neill, NE. And we’re gonna do it again tonight!

We play a short set starting at 5pm, followed by our full set starting at 9pm. Saturday night is usually the craziest night of the St. Pats celebration weekend in O’Neill. We can’t wait!

To view the show, go to the TV page on our site which will be the home for this and any future live streaming events.

This past Saturday was a great night at the Pheonix Room in Norfolk, NE. Awesome crowd, ice cold drinks and just a really good time. We were able to debut a new song too, which for now is titled “20 More Ways.”

We’re going to continue to play that new song and start adding a few others to our setlist at upcoming shows. Please let us know what you think of the new songs, we love to hear your feedback!

Thanks to everyone that made it to the Phoenix Room this weekend! It was good to see you all and we hope you had as much fun as we did! We have this weekend off but next weekend we’ll be in O’Neill, NE for their big St. Patrick’s celebration. Hopefully we’ll see some of you there!

We received word this week that we’ve been selected as the openers for Summerfest at Divot’s in Norfolk, NE on June 26th! Some of you may remember that we played at this show last year as well opening for Ivory Star, Eddie Money and Heart. This year is another great lineup with Night Ranger, Loverboy and Rick Springfield! The Rude Band will close the show. It’s gonna be a concert that you won’t want to miss!

We’re going to be playing 1 longer set to start the day off, then we’ll return to the stage after Night Ranger’s set to do a short set before Loverboy.

Tickets are on sale online or by phone at 1-888-355-0553. You can also visit Norfolk Lodge and Suites or Lou’s Thrifty Way in Norfolk to purchase tickets.

The band schedule looks like this:
Mr. Hand – 3 pm (Jagermeister Stage)
Night Ranger – 5 pm (Summerfest Stage)
Mr. Hand – 6 pm (Jagermeister Stage
Loverboy – 6:30 pm (Summerfest Stage)
Rick Springfield – 8 pm (Summerfest Stage)
The Rude Band – 10 pm (Jagermeister Stage)

Here’s a video from last year’s Summerfest:

Kennedy’s was the scene of the latest Mr. Hand Rocktopia! It had only been about a month since our last stop there, but it was good to be back. There was a great turnout that included many friends, so you know we had a great time!

We must thank all those friends who came out! Some even drove as far as Sioux City!

We’ll be eagerly awaiting the return trip to Kennedy’s which will be on April 17th. See you then!

We just added our Fueled by the View album to our Mr. Hand YouTube Channel so you can listen for free! You can listen here and on the Fueled by the View page on our site.

Get ready to rock!

It had been a few weeks, but we returned to the scene of the crime. The last time we were at The Depot was for New Year’s Eve and we were undeniably guilty of excessive drunkenness that night! This past weekend wasn’t much different and the great staff again aided and abetted us in our efforts to have a good time!

Thanks to everyone who made it out on a weekend with less than ideal weather conditions! We really appreciate it and enjoy rockin’ out and partying with you. Can’t wait to do it again!

We started covering this song last fall. We grew up, as most children of the 80′s, with Nena’s 99 Red Balloons firmly implanted in our brains thanks to radio and MTV. We were reminded of it and inspired by Goldfinger’s version of this song from a few years back, so we figured why not?

This comes from our show at Kennedy’s Irish Pub in Omaha on January 2nd.

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep Mr. Hand from an appointment to rock! In fact we need to add freezing cold to that statement as well! We made the trip to Jo Jo’s in Pierce, NE this past Saturday thumbing our nose at the sub-zero temperatures and piles of snow because we knew that a good time awaited.

It was once again a fun night but we have to thank everyone who made it out. We really appreciate you braving the cold weather to spend an evening partying with us. Thanks to the staff at Jo Jo’s for taking care of us as well!

We kicked off 2010 with a show at Kennedy’s Irish Pub in Omaha, NE. This is hopefully the start of more shows to come in the Omaha area!

In fact we’ll be back at Kennedy’s on 2/27 and 4/17. Definitely put this bar and grill on your list to check out…especially when Mr. Hand is rockin’ the house!