The Hatchetmen with Kate Rogers

Holed up on a lonely Ontario farmstead, Kate Rogers poured it all out. St Eustacia, the resulting debut album relates a passion and musicality that will rarely be matched.

"Edge , charisma and Soul" NME
"Her sophisticated folk-influenced pop explores emotional landscapes with controlled power" Music Week
Following her celebrated performances with label mates Aim and Rae & Christian, Kate has embraced the instrumentation and ambience of her earliest influences to write and record this emotive collection of songs. Roots, blues and North American folk flavours feature in a sophisticated sound based on both studio and live performances by Kate and her band.
"What a record. An astonishing debut" Independent on Sunday
With shifting instrumentation - from simple pianos to Arabian-infected beats reflecting her changing moods, the likes of the rousing title track suggests she won't be fading into the crowd Q
"Flecked with blues, roots, jazz and country. Outstanding." The Times
Kate spent the majority of 2004/5 touring Europe where the album was released early in the year. Working with a stripped down ensemble featuring acoustic guitars, harmonica, ukulele and keys, Kate played to club and festival audiences alike. The response was outstanding.
"A mesmerizing performer" Whats On - London
2007/8 sees the pendulum swing back home to Toronto for Kate as she prepares for the release of her latest album 'Beauregard' in North America. Playing with her full live band Kate is already flexing her muscles on the Toronto music circuit, with a full touring schedule planned for 2008, which always includes heading back over the pond to the UK.

Thursday August 13, Doors 9:00 p.m., Show time 9:30 p.m., Advance tickets are available for $6.00

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Book 'em Adam

C'est What is now busy writing a new chapter in it's twenty-one year love affair with Toronto's indie music scene. The club's music booker for the past decade, Crispin Giles, has moved on to The NXNE Music Festival. In Crispin's place will be long-time indie music darling Adam Faux who will bring his enthusiasm for all things cool and local to the job. Aside from having a great ear for music, Adam has been playing C'est What since the early nineties and has some interesting life experiences that we are sure he can put to good use here:

Adam Faux was born in Toronto Canada to a 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 newspaper, tv and periodical features.

Presently, Adam's focus is with a gang of disparate characters, "Exploding Band". Adam Faux, Jesse Capon, Curtis Faux, and Pete Fusco make up the live and recording band. Jake Chisholme, Brandi Disterheft (guitar and bass respectively) play on 3 tunes in the exploding band's recorded repertoire. Michael Philip Wojewoda appears on two tracks pounding the skins, and John Deslauriers plays bass on "The Same Great Gasp". Adam produced, co-wrote and performed on the "the Fourway Flashers" debut 2007 pop rock release, and is occasionally jazzing with fundamentalist pop players "The Tiny Specks".

Check out our music booking page for more info on how to get a show at C'est What.

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