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About the Concert
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY JANUARY 17, 10AM
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We're excited to celebrate the launch of Hastings trio HotWax's debut album 'Hot Shock' with an intimate live show at Urban Spree on 25th March 2025.
Copies of HotWax's new record ‘Hot Shock' are available as a limited edition LP on orange vinyl (Rough Trade Exclusive with Bonus Content), LP on black vinyl and CD (Rough Trade Exclusive) + the entry tickets. The albums can be collected during and after the show at the merch stand.
There are NO single tickets available for this show.
HotWax’s debut album follows the release of two critically acclaimed 2023 EPs that launched the touring Hastings trio to ever bigger stages, playing over 150 blistering live shows in the past 18 months alone including Reading + Leeds, Mad Cool, All Points East, Download, support tours with Royal Blood, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Deap Vally and more. It’s the band’s incredible stagecraft and seemingly limitless energy that caught the attention of producer Catherine Marks (Boygenius, Wolf Alice) at Third Man Records’ Blue Basement last summer.
The band went on to build an all-female team to record ‘Hot Shock’, with Marks co-producing alongside Steph Marziano (Picture Parlour, Cassandra Jenkins), bringing a crowd of the band’s friends into London’s legendary RAK Studios to record a live runthrough of the new record – perfectly capturing the distinct, dizzying energy of a HotWax gig. While touring the US, the band also recorded with Warpaint drummer Stella Mozgawa at her studio in Joshua Tree.
The result is an album made to be played to a crowd, loud and with abandon. But there’s also a beating pulse of vulnerability underscoring ‘Hot Shock’, written throughout the whirlwind of life on the road. Although Hot Shock may traverse the unsettling terrain that comes with entering young adulthood, there’s also a sense of playful abandon that is never far behind.
