L.A. Beat

Time: 9 p.m.

Cover: none

http://www.myspace.com/theawesomehotsedmo

http://theawesomehots.bandcamp.com/album/the-awesomehots-e-p

Amy van Keeken (the Secretaries, Dub Vulture) and Darren Radbourne (the Brassholes) concocted the AwesomeHots over hot toddies and late night windowsill songs across the rooftops of WhiskeyTown. With a ukulele, a guitar and their trusty HamperWriter (the spawn of a vintage typewriter and a 60s laundry hamper) they play music that draws from a wide swath of influences (oldey timey radio, Hank Williams, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Kitty Wells, the Thin Man movie series, Julie London and vintage office machines) with a sprinkle of coronet, campy humour, glockenspiel, accordion and kazoo thrown in for good measure. It's tent meeting gospel hymns meets a boozy campfire singalong MC'd by Dean Martin and Phylis Diller. "The AwesomeHots use a HamperWriter — a half-typewriter half-hamper hybrid — to tie an ornate bow around their parlour folk-playing, old timey-storytelling, home instrument-inventing, stage theatrics-loving package." - Carol Neuman, See Magazine Recorded live off the floor in their Edmonton living room, their debut e.p. is a cross section of the AwesomeHots' sound. From the dixieland influenced opening track, Borda Patro', to the sparse and haunting closing of I Wait for You and plenty of sing-a-longs in between, this recording is the AwesomeHots in their natural environment. 

the AwesomeHots are:
Amy van Keeken-
vocals,ukulele,hamperwriter,accordion,guitar,glockenspiel,shaker

Darren Radbourne-
vocals,coronet,euphonium,guitar,kazoo,accordion,hamperwriter

featuring special guests:
Jessica Fern Facette - accordion
Greg Hutchinson - trumpet
Patrick Michalak - handclaps & tamborine
Mark Sazavsky - tuba, trombone

and introducing:
the WhiskeyTown Municipal Singers-
Jarrett Armstrong, Tamar Dinner, Jessica Fern Facette,
Natasha Fryzuk, Norman Omar, Andrea Yacyshyn

music and lyrics by the AwesomeHots