Adam Faux

Adam Faux was born in Toronto Canada to an eccentric designer and proto hippie sculptor. He spent years living in geodesic domes and 28 sided houses and even a real farm house, and attended the Ontario college of Art at the tender age of 5. Okay, he ran around the halls for a year or so while Al Faux taught, and around maggies Farm ( an o.c.a.d campus, 69-72) while hippies got their freak on. By the age of 16, Adam had left home and was living in the heart of Toronto’s art and music scene, on Queen west. His first mohican was administered by Pete Lawson and Handsome Ned, and his first real job was “kitchen slave” at Yofi’s restaurant on fabled Baldwin Street, a mecca for vegetarians and green haired punk rocks. While At Yofi’s, Adam met John DesLauriers of the “10 Commandments” and “l’etranger”, and hassled him until finally forming “Pigfarm” in the mid eighty’s. There was in the mean time, a stay in Mexico hunting iguanas and fishing commercially near isla mujeures, and a residency at Paris north station in France, as well as “street level existence” in 9 other countries in europe, ending in England, where he recovered from a Grecian motorcycle crash, having his broken fingers set by a widow whose husband had died that day, on the Greek island of Naxos. Pigfarm recorded and performed from 1985-1994 in various forms throughout Canada and the United States and charted number 34 on the college music charts in America (after they had broken up for the first time), and held top honor on most Canadian university radio stations at at varying times, and enjoyed a publishing deal with peermusic world wide during which time Adam delivered Whitney Houston’s diamond award for the BodyGuard soundtrack to New York , and held up the train at the U.S. Canada border because immigration didn’t believe the dread locked and messy lead singer was telling the truth...about the contents of the box...... The “Lost Dakotas” list Adam as a founding member on wikipedia, and the “Urban Decay Group” appears if you google long enough; Andy Stochansky, Cyrus Sundar - Singh being key members...Adam counts among his most memorable accomplishments , working with Michael Snow (Canadian Hotshot Artist, see walking woman) on “the Audience” a massive sculpture at Toronto’s Skydome, producing and/or recording and playing on Kyp harness’s breakthrough “the Floating World” and “All her Love”, and recording/ mixing on the gemini award winning film “The Film Club” directed by Cyrus Sundar Singh, doin' the same plus playin' on the award winning doc “the Jews of India” by the same director, and including producer Vanessa Laufer. Adam has in one way or another had video's rotated on much music, ctv, and cbc among others. Been the focus of the Dini Petty show(ctv), swinging on a star (cbc radio), much music's 'the wedge" and countless other newpaper, tv and periodical features. Presently, Adam’s focus is with his quartet of disparate characters "the Exploding Band" including, jake chisholm (guitar), Jesse Capon (percussion,voice), and Brandi Disterheft (bass). Ranking a close 2nd, Adam backs Miss Laura Repo as one of "the Blue Healers". Another close 2nd ...Adam is also celebrating, having produced, co writ and performed on the “the Fourway Flashers” debut spring, pop rock release, jazzing with fundamentalist pop players “The Tiny Specks”, Getting his freak on with improv hipsters “Hotfogandhi “ and the "Mondo Five", and co-fronting the weekly rock collective "slotone" with Bob Sheppard, and doing solo gigs with a harmonica and guitar........