Preview: Hidden Cameras and Gentleman Reg [Saturday at Emo's]

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The Hidden Cameras with Gentlemen Reg
Saturday, November 14th
Emos (603 Red River St)
$10 in advance, $12 at the door, doors at 9pm, inside stage
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Pornographically peppy Canadian indie fronstman Joel Gibb has describes his Hidden Cameras sound as "gay church folk music." (This is a congregation we would definitely join.) He has also called for a ban on marriage, and suggested "let's do it like we're underage.”

While he cheerfully scampers through lyrics we don’t need his degree in semiotics to interpret (and blush at), audiences at Hidden Cameras shows have in the past been treated to not-so-hidden go-go dancers, cheerleaders, video, glockenspiels, very irreverent choirs, and other things perhaps best described as etc. Just think of an agitprop Polyphonic Spree cabaret show peppered with Foucault references. You may also be asked onstage to play tambourine.

Opening for The Hidden Cameras is Gentleman Reg, born Reg Vermue, who plies his willowy voice in the service of powerpop-infused indie. A former member of The Hidden Cameras, he has also worked with Broken Social Scene and Sufjan Stevens. If you’ve never heard him, thinking of a particularly gymnastic run of backup vocals on a billowing Sufjan chorus is not a bad place to start. Of course, you may have heard him without knowing it- Gentleman Reg tracks are featured in quite a few films, including Shortbus, Twist, and The End of Silence, as well as Queer as Folk on tv.

The Hidden Cameras [Myspace][Official]

Gentleman Reg [Myspace][Official]