The Hot Lies

The Hot Lies are an alternative rock band from Adelaide, South Australia.

The band was formed in 2004 from the ashes of Adelaide band The Killchior Project, which had three members of The Hot Lies play in it, including the lead singer who at the time played bass. Recruiting ex I Killed The Prom Queen bass player and a lead guitarist The Hot lies was born.

The band consists of five members, Pete Wood on vocals, Benjamin Pix on rhythm guitar, Jared Brown on drums, Leaton Rose on bass, And now Luke Szabo on lead guitar. This seems to have been a turbulent part in the band for the hot lies having had two previous lead guitarists before Szabo, Josh Delstar and Mikey Valentine. However The Hot Lies seem to have found a permanent dedicated member in Szabo.

Their debut was their home-recorded demo Bullets And Black Lines was made known by the Australian home of indie, Radio station Triple J in March 2004.

In 2004 they released an EP, Streets Become Hallways, since the release the band have toured with the likes of Alexisonfire, After the Fall, My Chemical Romance, 28 Days, Sum 41, Yellowcard, Good Charlotte and Popular Melbourne band Kisschasy.

Australian fans demanded more from the band and so in 2005 they released another 5 track EP, Heart Attacks and Callous Acts . The boys made videos for Promise Me and Tell Me Goodnight. Tell me goodnight was so popular with the fans the band went on a national tour to celebrate the video's release, picking up an army of new fans along the way.

With a string of tours to follow, the band made no secret of telling their loyal fan base that they were taking a break to record their new album, due 'late 2007'

Their single Emergency! Emergency! went on sale in August of 2007 and was successful at getting attention for their debut album which was to be released shortly after. Emergency! Emergency! contained the title song, the cover Time After Time which has long been a crowd favorite and an acoustic version of Ghosts and Mirrors. With Pete Wood the lead singer letting an interviewer know that he would love to have the opportunity to sing a duet with the original singer of Time After Time's Cyndi Lauper, he enthused that she may be interested and he would keep us posted.

Their debut album Ringing in the Sane received lots of national airplay from Australian radio stations such as nova, 5ADL and Triple J. it features many infectious melodic soft rock songs. The release was very successful. This instigated a review from local BLUNT magazine which read

"After two impressive build-up EP's, Adelaide's finest emo pop stars, The Hot Lies finally unveiled their debut full-length to the world, making lovers of local pop-infused rock everywhere rejoice. Abandoning their harsher post-hardcore beginnings, the yelling and screaming was barely anywhere to be found amongst the minefield of infectious hooks that so easily sucked you in and but so tenaciously refused to let go. With their emphasis on stronger songs, Ringing in the Sane was an instant 'Pies classic".

So far 'Ringing in the Sane' has two video clips, Tokyo and Emergency! Emergency! Both get regular play on Australia's Video Hits as well as Channel [v] and Australian MTV.

The album 'Ringing In The Sane' has attracted fan attention from countries across the world with fans writing on their my space leaving messages of love from Japan, Chile and America asking for the band to visit their countries.

If you ask a rabid Hot Lies fan they will tell you how different the debut album is to the first two EP's. Most commonly you will hear that "they don't scream anymore".

Pete Wood, lead singer of the band states in DB, an Adelaide street magazine: "We picked our 12 favorites, and someone's like, 'oh they're the ones with no screaming in 'em. Do we need to go in and put in those parts?' That just seemed such a fake thing to do, just to go in and put those things in there because people expect that of us".

Jared Brown, founding member and the band's drummer added: "There's that cool Jimmy Eat World line where he says 'you don't have to scream to say something you really mean' [No Sensitivity]".

To which Pete Wood elaborated: "That hit home with me, years ago when I was hearing that. I was like, well, why do I get into this band when all the other bands I like are heavy? I realized they had just as much passion as these bands who I thought had more because they were screaming..."

'Ringing In The Sane' features one song with screaming vocals oppose to every previous 'Hot Lies' song. However The album seems to be felt by a wider audience, a noticeable winning formula for Adelaide's Finest musical export.

If Ringing in the Sane does not launch the band onto international scale, It at least turned a few international heads, making The Hot Lies 'The Band to Watch In 2008'.