Exciting times at Frolic HQ: we’re playing this Sunday at the O2 Academy in Leicester! This is our biggest show so far supporting some fantastic bands: Date Night Disco, Flip Like Wilson and Linear. It’s also our last show in Leicester for a few weeks and it’s gonna be a massive night. Tickets are available from us for £7 and include entry to the club night after! Doors are at 6:30pm and it’s gonna run until early evening so there’s time for a full night out if you fancy moving on elsewhere…
Winding down from Blackpool
Wow, what a weekend. Blackpool was a major kick; what amazing venues, what amazing people, what fantastic fans! Thanks to everyone who came along for the ride with us; when we had to drag our hungover selves onstage following Jon’s birthday frivolity on Friday night your support was like injecting Red Bull through the eyeball. Or something. Anyhoo, just got back from a fantastic evening at Baroque tonight to cap the weekend off nicely. Be sure to check out Micro Jupiter, real nice guys with real good music, they put on a proper show! Quite a range of music on show including Jonezy among others…thanks for letting us join you guys and thanks for listening to us!
We’ll be back out on the road soon, it was a great weekend away so we’ll definitely be pushing further afield soon. We’ve got exciting plans brewing at Frolics HQ for other stuff as well so be sure to keep checking back!
Peace, love and cupcakes – HF
Howdy!
Hello Frolickers!
Please mind the dust; I’m kind of working on the site as I go. I was looking at something more bespoke but WordPress is a good place to start. It’s good enough for The Arcade Fire and Katy Perry so it’s probably good enough for the Hot Frolics!
I’ll be adding stuff in as I go so expect some changes as I develop the style etc. In the meantime, enjoy! Be sure to check out our music on SoundCloud, Tweet about us to your friends or just Like us on Facebook! Thanks.
Jon
Launch at the Soundhouse!
It took 3 months to get there but last night The Hot Frolics launched at The Soundhouse, Leicester.
Supported by The Dandy Lions, Concrete Kisses and The Fores- Steve, Jon, Ben and Andy took to the stage for the first time together!
Setlist:
Helen of Troy, Don’t Cry For Me, Melancholy to the Madness, Ohio Girl, In Vain, Haunted By You, Hanging On, Changed the Way You Kissed Me, Angel of The North
How’d it go you ask? Here’s a review from Arts in Leicestershire magazines editor, Trevor Locke:
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The headliners of tonight’s show took to the stage. The Hot Frolics are a new band from Ashby de la Zouch. They are a great band to watch … four individuals working closely together a team but each one a distinct individual doing his own thing on the stage and all looking like they totally engaged with the music.
Lead singer Stephen Marsden has a great presence, watching the crowd and responding to them, he knows how to be in touch with the fans. A look of intense awareness and a great voice which he knows how to use to good effect, he is an amazing artist.
The band delivered a coach load of fans into the SoundHouse for this, their launch event in Leicester. The fans joined in with the shouty choruses which added a big dollop of resonance to the set. Lots of bouncy songs, they were a headline level band and got a strong response from the room including a demand for an encore.
Stephen stepped off the stage to sing to his admiring fans face to face. The music was tuneful and compelling and the fans were eager to join in with the choruses. Stephen’s beady eyes were checking out the reactions of those around him, picking up the vibes from the audience members and responding to them.
The whole set was a superb performance and at the end, the crowd started to chant “We want more, we want more”, so another song came on, to cheers from the crowd, despite the coach driver outside looking menacingly at his watch!
So, The Hot Frolics – a band with real sparkle – we will want to see a lot more of them. Hot Frolics “hot property” as they say. Much better than that other Ashby band, the Young something or others.”