Toronto-based genre-defying producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist The Ugly Fun is
breathing new life into his music with a fresh name, vision and approach. His music is
cherry-picked from indie, garage and pop elements, with a unique guitar-led and progressive
spin. His process is one that thrives from collaboration; constantly seeking fresh and
innovative ways to tap into new avenues of creativity, and often incorporating other artistic
sources to spark inspiration - most recently connecting with the work of art photographers to
ignite refreshing musical and lyrical ideas.
Having been making music for 40 years, he has come far from his days of recording on an
old tascam Portastudio that his father would rent for him once a year. In a flurry of youthful
creativity he would use his two week rental window to scrape together crudely recorded
tapes, later gifting them to whoever would listen. A talented multi-instrumentalist, he began
his instrumental journey playing piano and drums, and later at the age of 12 found the love
for guitar when discovering a battered fake stratocaster and giving it a second chance at life.
In 2015 he launched indie garage trio The Sleepovers, playing shows and recording a few
EPs until the trio eventually went their separate ways. Inspired by the abundance of voice
notes left unfinished on his phone, he is now injecting new life into old ideas under solo and
collaborative rebrand The Ugly Fun. The result is daring, guitar-driven, lofi-injected garage
pop infusions. His debut single ‘Mixed Tape’ is out September 3rd, and is deeply inspired by
his teenage years at the lake, and influenced by the works of art photographer Tina Barney.

TWP formed around 1994-95 . Did a Radio 1 John Peel session in August 1998.  
Other bands i have played for include: BLOOD ORANGE , THE WATERMELONS , FATTYS  LEG , DEAD POSSUM , and JOHNNY DEATH and THE DEADHEADS.

Once contenders for the mantle of Britain’s most self-conscious band — guilty, by their own admission, of pandering to audiences’ tastes following their move from Pompey to London — Hotel Lux have crafted an identity that is truly their own on bold debut album ‘Hands Across The Creek’.
 
But in 2020, the roots of Hotel Lux’s transformation were soon in place. The band’s classic influences — Dr Feelgood, The Stranglers, Ian Dury — meshed with the sounds of artists like Neil Young, Brian Eno and The Waterboys, and, in the end, Hotel Lux found themselves “doing the whole ‘haha, that’s what the fourth album will sound like’ thing” on their first, says Cam.
 
They decamped to The Wirral, with Bill Ryder-Jones (The Coral; Arctic Monkeys) as multi-faceted influences, £20 Casio keyboards and marauding song structures fell into place. Lead single ‘Common Sense’ was influenced by ‘80s group the Beautiful South and inspired by the RMT strikes, trade union leader Mick Lynch, and the media’s treatment of Jeremy Corbyn. It’s a rhythmic anthem full of funk bass, machine gun snares and clattering guitars reminiscent of Television or Glasgow icons Orange Juice. It's the band’s most euphoric and danceable single to date.
 
With ‘Hands Across The Creek’ set for release in early 2023, Hotel Lux look set to become something their early critics might have not foreseen: a band full of confidence, with the ability to transcend their peers and carve out their own corner of British music tapestry.

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