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Member Since: 2/9/2005
Band Website: www.thehotlies.com"thehotlies.com
Band Members: Pete Wood- Vox
Benjamin Pix- Guitar/Vox
Leaton Rose- Bass/Vox
Jared Brown- Drums
Luke Szabo- Lead Guitar

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Influences: THE HOT LIES RELEASES

RINGING IN THE SANE LP
15/9/2007
1. Emergency! Emergency!
2. Burn For Me
3. Can't Stand the Heat
4. Tokyo
5. Sharks Swim Everywhere
6. Poison Arrow
7. For the Restless
8. Running Low
9. Diamond Eyes
10. In A Shadow
11. Down & Out
12. Under Your Skin
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EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! SINGLE
10/8/2007
1. Emergency! Emergency!
2. Time after Time (cover)
3. Ghosts & Mirrors (acoustic)
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HEART ATTACKS & CALLOUS ACTS EP
16/8/2005
1. Ghosts & Mirrors
2. Breakaway
3. Promise Me
4. Tell Me Goodnight
5. Taking Chances
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STREETS BECOME HALLWAYS EP
1/8/2004
1. Against The Wall
2. Suspended Smiles
3. One For The Memories
4. Bullets & Blacklines
5. A Breath & Its Gone
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The Hot Lies Biography

Strike the matches, if you’re restless, be reckless, be reckless, bet it all on a bolt coming
out of the blue……taken from ‘For The Restless’

The most thrilling Australian album of 2007 is not what you expected. It’s an assured,
hook-laden, memorable bolt out of the blue – and when The Hot Lies strike a match,
restless rockers across the nation will be lining up to get reckless with them. The debut album from The Hot Lies, Ringing In The Sane may be nothing you
expected, but it’s certainly everything you hoped. Produced by Phil McKellar
(Silverchair, Grinspoon, Kisschasy) Ringing In The Sane journeys from the fires of
Tokyo to bile-filled internet messageboards, from intense punk to ’80s-flavoured art rock,
from the jerking rhythms of Can’t Stand the Heat to the contagious drama of first single
Emergency! Emergency!

Born in the Adelaide hardcore scene in 2004, but raised – like all good Aussie bands
– on the highways between gigs, The Hot Lies have toured with every big name in punk
rock, from Millencolin to My Chemical Romance, and they’ll add Good Charlotte
and Sum 41 to that list before the year is out. They’ve played Taste of Chaos alongside
The Used, Big Day Out alongside The White Stripes, Live N Local alongside The
Veronicas .

Their first release, the 2004 EP Streets Become Hallways, was picked up by JJJ. Their
follow up EP, 2005’s Heart Attacks and Callous Acts, spawned the hits Promise Me and
Tell Me Goodnight, and saw Rolling Stone declare the band one to watch. As screamo,
post-punk, whatever you want to call it, has seeped into the suburbs, no Australian act
has pushed it further than The Hot Lies – 10,000 of those converts own a copy of Heart
Attacks and Callous Acts.

Like all worthwhile journeys, the road to Ringing In The Sane was not without its bumps.
A couple of exploding guitarists had the band marking time, until lead guitarist Luke
Szabo finally completed the line-up in early 2007, making the move from Melbourne and
his previous band The Scissor File.

The turmoil ultimately fed into the album’s title – Ringing In The Sane. “It’s about those
times when you think you’re mentally falling apart, yet somehow it all comes together,”
says singer Pete Wood. “We’d worked so hard and we really believed in the songs. The
Heart Attacks EP connected with more people than we thought it ever would, so it would
have been a cop out to let the band fall apart. It just made everyone more determined.”

It fed into the songs on the album, too. “That was the biggest thing happening in my
life – whether the band was falling apart or growing strong,” Wood says. “There’s this
running theme through the whole thing, little tales of the Adelaide underground and
certain times in the band. ‘Strike the matches’ (from For the Restless) could be the
album’s catchcry – it’s about all the amazing things that go on behind the scenes
with bands in the city, in any city.”

Guitarist Luke’s last minute arrival points to another running The Hot Lies theme
– things are better if they come in the 11th hour. Take Running Low, a song destined
to soundtrack the summer of 2007/08 – “There must be something in the water, we’ve
been a ticking clock all summer…” Wood sings. It’s Ringing In The Sane’s emotive
showstopper, and it will have teenagers dreaming of the last kiss of summer, and the
older crowd shedding a tear of regret. But The Hot Lies see it differently.

“Every time it gets to the line: ‘Counting the seconds down, the 11th hour…’ I just
picture all of us freaking out in the studio, trying to track one last song on a laptop,”
Wood laughs. “But even when it was getting to the 11th hour, I wasn’t stressing because
I knew when this band puts their mind to it they can make it happen. I was copping it in
the studio on the last night – it was four in the morning and Jared was like, ‘You’ve done
it again, you’ve left everything ’til the last minute, and somehow it worked out.’ That’s just
how it works for us.”

“We weren’t scared to change the music after working with the Eskimo Joe guys,” Wood
says. “To rip the guts out of a song, turn things upside down. When we came back from
Perth, there was a new energy in our songwriting.”

When they joined McKellar in Sydney to record the album, The Hot Lies began steering a
new course. While many songs progressed through three or four different versions before
finding their true identity, one thing was certain – there was no chance of Ringing In The
Sane being just another screamo record.

“It never felt like it needed to go down that path,” Wood says. “Songwriting is a massive
thing for us – people can fall in love with pieces of the music, but we wanted people to
fall in love with the entire song. It’s real easy if you’re writing one of those records to go
‘What’s the song lacking? It needs one of those bits’. But if you want someone to fall in
love with the songs, you can’t resort to that, it’s got to be a journey. And that’s what this
album turned out to be.”

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