The Hidden Cameras
Schedule
Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
95 King St. E., Hamilton, ON, Canada, Ontario L8N 1A9 | Hamilton, ON
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With BRONTO, The Hidden Cameras deliver an album that pushes the boundaries of pop. Joel Gibb, the visionary mind behind the legendary music project, dedicates an unconventional meta-dance-pop album to his adopted hometown of Berlin – and collaborates with electronic heavyweights such as Pet Shop Boys and Vince Clarke.Nightclubs have always been central places of resistance and community in the history of gay liberation and self-empowerment. BRONTO explores the dazzling facets of this history in its own unique way, paying tribute to the pioneers – and rightfully placing itself among them. Hardly anyone has translated the topic of gay love into music in a more original way over the last 25 years than Joel Gibb, the mastermind behind The Hidden Cameras. Founded in Toronto in 2001, the collaborative project broke the boundaries of the classic band formation with its fluid member structure. With his “gay folk church music,” Gibb sang about homoerotic love on stages – and in church halls – long before those topics had arrived in the pop mainstream.
With his seventh studio album BRONTO, Joel Gibb follows in the footsteps of pioneers such as Lou Reed and David Bowie and releases an album inspired by Berlin but recorded almost exclusively in his second adopted home of Munich. The Canadian has lived in Berlin for over 15 years – and this has by no means left his sound untouched. After folk and country, Gibb has worked with Munich-based collaborator Nicolas Sierig (Joasihno) to create BRONTO, an unconventional electronic meta-dance-pop album. On BRONTO, which means “thunder” in Greek, Gibb puts the folk guitar aside and, in the best disco tradition, uses the studio as an instrument in which he creates highly emotional, dazzling worlds of sound. Instead of hyper-reflective linguistic acrobatics, on BRONTO Gibb deliberately plays with common phrases and questions which you might have heard a hundred times – but not like this. Thanks to his unique approach to songwriting, Gibb manages to tell stories that are still wonderfully strange and touching at the same time. BRONTO thus becomes a decade-spanning time capsule on which Gibb enters into a dialogue with his younger self and recalls the roots of The Hidden Cameras almost 25 years later.
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$25 + FEES in ADVANCE
19+ | LICENSED | DOORS at 7PM
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