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Hot Hot Heat is a rock Musical band|band from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The band is currently comprised of Steve Bays (vocals and Keyboard instrument|keyboards), Paul Hawley (Drum kit|drums), Dustin Hawthorne (bass guitar|bass) and Luke Paquin (guitar). They also occasionally use The Peasants front man Stephen Dubrich for vocals in recording.
Biography
Hawthorne and Bays had been in many different bands together since 1995 and met Hawley in 1998. In 1999, Hawley bought a Juno 6 keyboard and asked Bays to try playing it, as no one else knew how. Hawley took over the drums from Bays and Hawthorne played bass. Matthew Marnik, who was a friend of the band, sang vocals. The band's original sound can be considered synthpunk.
The band soon changed direction to a more melodic, pop-influenced style, losing Marnik and adding guitarist Dante DeCaro. Strongly influenced by the New Wave music|New Wave sound of 1980s bands XTC, The Clash, and Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the new lineup, with Steve on vocals, quickly released a series of 7" singles and toured extensively in Canada and the American Pacific Northwest, joining up with similarly-styled indie rock bands such as Les Savy Fav, The French Kicks, Radio 4 (band)|Radio 4, Ima Robot, and Pretty Girls Make Graves, and opening for established Canadian rockers Sloan (band)|Sloan on a national tour.
