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December 19, 2022

Gut Feeling Podcast #16 - Steve Bays (Hot Hot Heat, Fur Trade)

Hot Hot Heat at the Commodore Ballroom. Vancouver, BC. 2002. Photo by Gregory Adams.

BY GREGORY ADAMS

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Hot Hot Heat/Fur Trade's Steve Bays!

Steve gets into the early history of Hot Hot Heat, whom just celebrated the 20th anniversary of their pop-tastic Make Up the Breakdown with a a deluxe, remastered re-release through Sub Pop Records.

He also dives into the jingling holiday spirit of Fur Trade's recent "Christmas in a Cage" single, which marks the first new music from the project in nearly a decade, and teases an upcoming full-length through Light Organ Records.

Steve also gets into: growing up in Victoria, BC; sneaking off to his first punk show at the age of 12; earlier hardcore and emo projects including (Instill'), Missiles to Heaven, and Fuck You I'm Stealing Home; the lost solo project that bridges the gap between the initial Hot Hot Heat lineup's insular keyboard hardcore and the rafters-reaching pop of Make Up the Breakdown; side shout-outs to Vue, the Walkmen, and high school classmate Nelly Furtado; and the literal buzz surrounding his current Tugboat Pl. Studio in New Westminster, BC.

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