HOME GAMES Faux plays a 12-hour showcase at the Gladstone Hotel as part of Nuit Blanche Saturday (October 4), 6:52 pm to October 5, 7 am adamfaux.com goes live the same evening.
NICKNAMES Addy
POSITION Guitar and lead shouter
TEAM MEMBERS Jesse Capon (drums and vocals), Peter Fusco (bass and vocals), Curtis Faux (guitars and vocals)
ROOKIE YEAR “Oboe was my first instrument, then guitar. The Who at Maple Leaf Gardens convinced me that guitar was it. I once knocked myself out cold doing a Townshend-esque leap onstage at the Apocalypse Club in Toronto (low ceilings). I woke up with the band still playing and the bass player asking me, ‘Dude, you all right, man?'”
STATS Played with Pigfarm, the Lost Dakotas, Laura Repo and the Blue Healers, Fourway Flashers and others.Once nominated for best hair at the Casbys and honoured to record, play on and mix several films, including the Gemini-winning Painted Nation.
LEAGUE Elvis Costello spying on the Who, and the Clash at the beach playing volleyball with Radiohead.
SPECIAL TALENTS Cat whisperer.
