Mississauga Goddam

From Toronto - Candy coated tunes, enter a pansexual utopia: The best indie-rock-queer-church-symphonic-groove-out you can click yer heels to.

Calgary, meet The Hidden Cameras, the tumescent, shambolic Toronto art band which tours the world wearing jock straps and paper animal masks, making clubs, galleries, cathedrals and porn cinemas safe for their priapic pop hymns. Or maybe you've already heard their music-church folk choir meets girl-group with a little Brit-mope thrown in for good measure-in the form of their CD on Rough Trade records (Ohmigod! That's the Smiths' label!), The Smell of Our Own, featuring songs like "Ban Marriage!" and "Golden Streams." But it's their new CD at play here, a full-fisted tribute to Southern Ontario banality (and a riff on Nina Simone's segregation-era Mississippi Goddam) which, according to a rapturous Globe and Mail reviewer, yields a "universe in every lump of filth."

Jan 29, 2005 at The Big Secret Theatre, 9:30pm
Tickets: $22

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"When The Hidden Cameras play, you dance." - The Globe and Mail

"…their music is subversive, infectious, genuine, beautiful, and fresh." - Outlooks

"The songs squirm immediately into your ears and infect your bloodstream. At the first note the crush is on; by the third listen you're probably bouncing on your mattress in your underwear, howling into a hairbrush." - The Globe and Mail