Holy Fuck

Genre: Electronic Hometown: Toronto ON
www.holyfuckmusic.com

Saturday, March 18   12:00 a.m.
Momo's   (618 W 6th St)

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  Holy Fuck - Cadio bossa nova
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Holy Fuck are creating a legacy based on near stupidity. It’s a simple concept, to mimic modern electronic music without using modern fail-safes like laptops and programmed backing tracks… and of course to make people freak out and smash stuff. So for last year’s NXNE festival they armed themselves with a drum set, a bass guitar, a myriad of toy keyboards, guitar peddles, mixers, and even a 35 mm film synchronizer and hit the stage, without even rehearsing. Luckily they remembered to bring extra batteries.

Now just over a year later they have played super-festivals like Coachella, CMJ, SXSW, POP Montreal, Montreal Jazz, All Tomorrow’s Parties, and Vegoose. They have hooked up and collaborated frequently with Anti Pop Consortium MC, Beans. They still do it with the same duct taped keyboards, film editing gear, still without rehearsing. The line up continues to mutate but maintains its core: Brian Borcherdt, Graham Walsh, Kevin Lynn, and alternating drummers Glenn Milchem and Loel Campbell.

Spin magazine recently described Holy Fuck as‘blip-hoppers’. Other amusing descriptions are “a shabbily dressed Kraftwerk” and even “Toronto’s evil super group.” While it is difficult to describe the sounds made by mashed up Casio beats, layered with pounding drums and scratched up film tape, the one comment that is on everyone’s lips is … well, “Holy Fuck!”

Quotes:

“I had the good fortune of seeing these crazy crazy guys perform live a few weeks back at the Mercury Lounge in NYC… it was off the fucking hook. Seriously, totally bananas. Their songs made me want to run around in circles and fall down, or jump up and down and rock-kick my feet out in all directions. It was insanity in a nutshell. - Music For Robots

“Anything can happen with this school science project gone right”- Tim Perlich, Now

“Holy Fuck are set to emerge amidst praise as enthusiastic and exclamatory as their name.” Exclaim