The Hidden Cameras

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The Hidden Cameras
Background information
OriginToronto, Ontario, Canada
GenresIndie pop, indie rock, alternative rock, baroque pop, queercore
Years active2001 (2001)–present
LabelsArts & Crafts, Outside Music, Rough Trade
MembersJoel Gibb
Laura Barrett
Maggie MacDonald
Michael Peter Olsen
Lief Mosbaugh
Shaun Brodie
Paul Mathew
Rudolf Hebenstreit
Jamie McCarthy
John Power
Mez
Websitethehiddencameras.com

The Hidden Cameras are a Canadian

go-go dancers in balaclavas
, a choir, and a string section.

History

2001–2002: Ecce Homo

The band's first album, Ecce Homo, was released independently in 2001 on EvilEvil. It was after this first release that Gibb assembled a band and they began to perform in venues varying from art galleries to churches to porn theatres to parks. Since these early days the Hidden Cameras have played host to a number of notable musicians, including

.

2003: The Smell of Our Own

Their 2003 album The Smell of Our Own was released through Rough Trade in the UK and on the independent label EvilEvil in Canada.[3]

2004–2005: Mississauga Goddam and The Arms of His 'Ill'

In 2004, they released

G.B. Jones. In November 2005, the band collaborated with Toronto Dance Theatre
on the show In the Boneyard at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. Dancers joined the band throughout the show and played instruments, and the band performed on-stage in costume.

Three of the songs from Mississauga Goddam ("We Oh We", "I Believe in the Good of Life" (a rerecorded version of the same song from the first album), and "Builds the Bone") are featured in the Canadian movie Whole New Thing. "We Oh We" is featured on the soundtrack of the German film Sommersturm (Summer Storm).

2006: Awoo

G.B. Jones film The Lollipop Generation from 2008, which Joel Gibb also appears. Also that year, they performed in a Take-Away Show video by Vincent Moon
.

2009: Origin:Orphan

Origin:Orphan, their fifth album, was mastered in May 2009.[4] The music video for "In the NA", a song from this album, was screened at the 19th Annual Inside Out Film and Video Festival.[5] The album was released on 22 September 2009.[6]

Five songs from Origin:Orphan were redone by electronic pop band from Barcelona Hidrogenesse and released under the name of Hidrogenesse versus the Hidden Cameras in May 2010.[7] Also a video for "He Falls to Me" was done by Darío Peña.[8]

In 2011, they recorded a cover of

Have Not Been the Same - Vol. 1: Too Cool to Live, Too Smart to Die
.

2013: Arts & Crafts compilations and Age

In 2013, the band appeared on two compilation albums from the label

B-side from their 2009 "In the NA" single, appeared on Arts & Crafts: 2003-2013 and garnered airplay on CBC Radio 3, and the band collaborated with Snowblink on a cover of Duran Duran's "The Chauffeur" for Arts & Crafts: X.[9]

The album Age was released in January 2014.[9] The lead single "Gay Goth Scene" was released in July 2013.[9] The video for the single was directed by Kai Stänicke, who received the Short Film Award for Human Rights at San Marino International Film Festival awards, Tadgell’s Bluebell Honor Award, Best Short Film About/For Youth at the 16th Auburn International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults in Sydney, Australia, and best German short at the International Queer Film Festival Hamburg, Germany.

2016: Home on Native Land

Manufaktur Schorndorf, Germany 2018

Mary Margaret O’Hara
.

Discography

The band's material has been released on a variety of labels, including Rough Trade in the United Kingdom, Arts & Crafts in the U.S., and Outside Music[10] in Canada.

Albums

EPs

Singles

  • "Ban Marriage" (2003)
  • "A Miracle" (2003) #70 UK
  • "I Believe in the Good of Life" (2004)
  • "Learning the Lie" (double single release)(2005)
  • "Death of a Tune" (2006)
  • "Awoo" (2006)
  • "In the NA" (2009)
  • "Underage" (2010)
  • "Do I Belong?" (2011)
  • "Mind, Matter and Waste" (2013)
  • "Gay Goth Scene" (2013)
  • "Carpe Jugular" (2014)
  • "Doom" (2014)
  • "The Day I Left Home" (2016)

Soundtracks

References

  1. The Advocate
    (888): 65.
  2. ^ "A Completely Biased Ranking of the 60 Best Canadian Indie Rock Songs of the 00s Part II". Vice, Cam Lindsay Apr 10 2017
  3. ^ "Music makes troubled town more livable". Toronto Star - Toronto, Ont. Rayner, Ben. Mar 9, 2003. Page: D.11
  4. ^ "The HIDDEN CAMERAS - Music Is My Boyfriend". 15 August 2004. Archived from the original on 15 August 2004.
  5. ^ "Inside Out - LGBT Film Festival". Insideout.ca. Retrieved 20 December 2016.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Arts & Crafts". Arts-crafts.ca. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  7. ^ "HIDROGENESSE VS. THE HIDDEN CAMERAS". Austrohungaro.com. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  8. ^ ""He falls to me" Hidrogenesse versus The Hidden Cameras". Vimeo.com. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  9. ^ a b c "The Hidden Cameras Release 7-Inch in Advance of 'Age' LP". Exclaim!, July 4, 2013.
  10. ^ "New album "Age" out in January – Page 1223 – The Hidden Cameras". Thehiddencameras.com. 25 November 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2016.

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