biographical info
With a musical tea steeped in nostalgia, sweetened with a
songbird voice, roughed up with a squeeze of country twang and bolstered by a
jigger of Canadian whiskey, the
AwesomeHots serve up a hot toddy of irreverent parlour folk.
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
lineup
Amy van Keeken Vocals, Guitar, Ukulele, Hamperwriter, Glockenspiel
Darren Radbourne Vocals, Guitar, Coronet, Hamperwriter
influences
Sonnie Terry & Brownie McGee
Kitty Wells
the Thin Man movie Series
Julie London
Hank Williams
Vintage Office Machines
Hot Toddies