Foggy Notions are proud to present Holy F**K live at Button Factory on
Saturday 19th September. Tickets on general sale Friday 16th January at
10:00.

HOLY FUCK - ‘EVENT BEAT’

At a time when even entire classic rock bands are being AI generated,
Holy Fuck are now more relevant than ever. The Canadian quartet have
forged their reputation for making electronic music with a human touch.
While many artists create that core electronic via laptops, loops and
drum machines, Holy Fuck keep every element as live as possible. The
intoxication they inspire comes not from cold, staid perfection, but
from the ragged energy that comes from four musicians relishing sharing
a moment. Factor in the chaos born from improvisation and skipping a
click track in favour of loose, raw, real percussion, and it’s easy to
see why Holy Fuck are renowned for their pulsating, unorthodox thrills.

As the passage of time marches to its own relentless beat, it’s almost
frightening to note that it has been six years since their previous set,
2020’s ‘Deleter’. Given the well-documented events that followed that
year, the normally road-weary band - Brian Borcherdt, Graham Walsh, Matt
‘Punchy’ McQuaid and Matt Schulz - spent two years entirely apart from
each other.

In March 2022, they finally reconvened in an old village hall in rural
Nova Scotia. The main purpose was to simply reunite and rehearse, but
new song ideas soon flowed out of them. And that was the starting point
for their upcoming album ‘Event Beat’.

“The catalyst for this record and the beginning of the recordings that
we did was us just getting back together again,” states Graham. “It was
something unique to us. It was all of us living together one in space
and with no distractions and just working on music in the middle of
nowhere. It’s a way I really like to work. For at least half of the
songs on the record, it was just us holed up together. Which was great!”

Intuition, muscle memory, an almost telepathic link? Call it what you
will but the shared synapses between the quartet were soon fired up.
“Having our own language that we can speak so easily together is really
important to us,” asserts Brian. “We all have our own piece to bring to
the conversation, and it's idiosyncratic to us because we’ve been
dedicated to it for so long. Hopefully that’s encouraging to other bands
who feel like they’re on a similar path.”