w/ Hey Rosetta! & Rich Aucoin
$23 pre-sale (+$2.50 tx & sc) - Buy your tickets for this show here!
$30 door
Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm

Dustin Hawthorne and Steve Bays had been in many different bands together since 1995 and met Hawley in 1998. In 1999, Hawley bought a Juno 6 keyboard and asked Bays to try playing it, as no one else knew how. Hawley took over the drums from Bays and Hawthorne played bass. Matthew Marnik, who was a friend of the band, sang vocals. The band's original sound can be considered synthpunk.

The band soon changed direction to a more melodic, pop-influenced style, losing Marnik and adding guitarist Dante DeCaro. Strongly influenced by the New Wave sound of 1980s bands XTC, The Clash, and Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the new lineup, with Steve on vocals, quickly released a series of 7" singles and toured extensively in Canada and the American Pacific Northwest, joining up with similarly-styled indie rock bands such as Les Savy Fav, The French Kicks, Radio 4, Ima Robot, and Pretty Girls Make Graves, and opening for established Canadian rockers Sloan on a national tour.

The band's touring exposure attracted the interest of Seattle record label Sub Pop, who signed Hot Hot Heat in 2001, leading to the early 2002 release of EP "Knock Knock Knock", produced in part by Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie. Although Hot Hot Heat got its start as a hardcore band, by the time it made contact with Sub Pop, its sound had mutated into what would soon be known as dance-punk. The band stood at the forefront of a movement that would explode on the indie rock scene within another year. That release was followed up quickly by the band's first full-length release, "Make Up the Breakdown", produced by Nirvana and Soundgarden producer Jack Endino.

That album quickly found critical acclaim, and its singles 'Bandages' and 'Talk to Me, Dance With Me' received regular airplay on MTV and radio, including influential Los Angeles, California station KROQ, on whose charts both reached No. 1.

However, their track 'Bandages' was removed from radio in the UK, from the playlist at BBC Radio 1, in the light of the war in the Middle East. This was thought to have hindered its position at #25 in the UK charts. The track had been on the B list on the station, guaranteeing 15 plays a week and a potential audience of millions. It was removed because of a "prevalence of the word 'bandages' in the song", a spokesperson said.

In 2003 the band re-released the 2001 album of tracks recorded prior to their Sub Pop recordings, "Scenes One Through Thirteen", on the OHEV Records label. Reflecting the band's transition period between their original sound and the present, and thus very much unlike what fans had heard on "Knock Knock Knock" and "Make Up the Breakdown".

In 2004 "Make Up the Breakdown" won Favourite Album at the Canadian Independent Music Awards by popular vote. Guitarist Dante DeCaro announced his departure from the band in October 2004, but stayed to complete their next album, and in 2005 joined Montreal band Wolf Parade. That album "Elevator", the band's major label debut, was released commercially by Warner Bros. In April 2005, Dante handed guitar duties over to replacement Luke Paquin when the band started their 2005 tour.

In 2005, the band opened for Weezer and Foo Fighters on the "Foozer Tour".

Hot Hot Heat played an opening set for American synth rock group The Killers at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on May 17, 2007. However, The Killers were forced to pull out after three songs because lead singer Brandon Flowers was suffering from bronchitis.

The follow up to "Elevator," "Happiness Ltd.," was released on September 11, 2007. In late March 2007, the band posted the song 'Give Up?' on their MySpace page as a sample of the album, and it was released on iTunes as a single on May 15. A second single entitled 'Let Me In' was released on July 16.

Hot Hot Heat toured in 2007 with Snow Patrol as their opening act on the U.S. leg of their summer tour. Their headlining tour of Germany, Canada and U.S. started September 3, 2007.

'Let Me In' debuted on KROQ at number 8. On August 8, 2007, the music video for 'Let Me In' premiered on Myspace Music. Also, on September 6, 2007, Hot Hot Heat posted their new album on their MySpace.

The band spent most of 2008/2009 recording and constructing their own studio and thrashing their take on what they do with best- synth-trashed, dance-throbbed anthems. Experimenting with 5/4 disco grooves and electro loops they went into the studio with producer/musician Ryan Dahle from Limblifter/Age of Electric awhile doing a brief Canadian tour opening for Bloc Party. Parker Bossley (from Fake Shark - Real Zombie!) also became their newest bassist. Their latest album, "Future Breeds" was released June 8, 2010 through their current label Dine Alone Records.



Based in St. John's, NL, Hey Rosetta! is comprised of Tim Baker (vocals/piano/guitar), Adam Hogan (guitar), Josh Ward (bass), Phil Maloney (drums), Romesh Thavanathan (cello) and Erin Aurich (violin).Recorded in the dead of winter in two East Coast harbour towns with producer and singer-songwriter Hawksley Workman, "Into Your Lungs" began with a beautiful naivety and confidence.  An "off the stage" feel and vigor reminiscent of the bands powerful live performances rooted the recording sessions and everything was bred from and expanded from there.  Conceptually, the new record is a shift from Tim's earlier compositions often written in isolation within his bedroom, to a new depth and space that comes from experiencing life on the road as a touring band. The new record packs more grit while allowing the bands infectious energy and vulnerability to flow freely.



On a mission to create a euphoric communal experience, Rich Aucoin writes music with emphasis on the feelings and happiness that it creates. With his second recording effort, "Public Publication", Aucoin has created an anthemic pop record where the barriers between audience and performers are dropped and the group as a whole performs this lush, orchestral, electro pop music. The end result is sweat drenched party full of group singing, playing and dancing. Crowd karaoke meets an 8 year old’s ideal birthday party, the bars and venues where the shows take place are transformed into a magical event with Aucoin’s ever evolving sound and light show with balloons, streamers and more confetti than the bars hoped he’d bring to help celebrate the occasion.

The group huddles around a massive projection that Aucoin broadcasts of the films that Aucoin writes his music to. A over stimuli of collage is seen as a myriad of film clips from the public domain are shown, woven together into a new narrative about following dreams and overcoming addiction to find happiness in community. The film syncs with the music the group performs together in the same way that Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon syncs with The Wizard of Oz. Aucoin is familiar with this type of syncing as he wrote and recorded his first record on his own, performing more than 25 instruments on it and writing it...