The Reverend Horton Heat, The Surfrajettes

Wednesday, June 17th 

The Reverend Horton Heat

The Surfrajettes

The Exchange - 2431 8th Ave

This is an all ages and licensed event 

Doors at 7:00pm 

Tickets on sale at TheExchangeLive.ca and Vintage Vinyl soon

Loaded guns, space heaters, and big skies. Welcome to the lethal littered landscape of Jim Heath’s imagination. True to his high evangelical calling, Jim is a Revelator, both revealing & reinterpreting the country-blues-rock roots of American music. He’s a time-travelling space-cowboy on a endless interstellar musical tour, and we are all the richer & “psychobillier” for getting to tag along.

Seeing REVEREND HORTON HEAT live is a transformative experience. Flames come off the guitars. Heat singes your skin. There’s nothing like the primal tribal rock & roll transfiguration of a Reverend Horton Heat show. Jim becomes a slicked-back 1950′s rock & roll shaman channelling Screamin’ Jay Hawkins through Buddy Holly, while Jimbo incinerates the Stand-Up Bass. And then there are the “Heatettes”. Those foxy rockabilly chicks dressed in poodle-skirts and cowboy boots slamming the night away. It’s like being magically transported into a Teen Exploitation picture from the 1950′s that’s currently taking place in the future.

Listening to the REVEREND HORTON HEAT is tantamount to injecting pure musical nitrous into the hot-rod engine of your heart. The Reverend’s commandants are simple. And no band on this, or any other, planet rocks harder, drives faster, or lives truer than the Reverend Horton Heat. These “itinerant preachers” actually practice what they preach. They live their lives by the Gospel of Rock & Roll. From the High-Octane Spaghetti-Western Wall of Sound in “Big Sky” — to the dark driving frenetic
paranoia of “400 Bucks” – to the brain-melting Western Psychedelic Garage purity of “Psychobilly Freakout” — The Rev’s music is the perfect soundtrack to the Drive-In Movie of your life.

Jim Heath & Jimbo Wallace have chewed up more road than the Google Maps drivers. For twenty five Psychobilly years, they have blazed an indelible, unforgettable, and meteoric trail across the globe with their unique blend of musical virtuosity, legendary showmanship, and mythic imagery.

“Okay it’s time for me to put this loaded gun down, jump in my Five Oh Ford, and nurture my pig on the outskirts of Houston. I’ll be bringing my love whip. See y’all later.” -

Carty Talkington Writer/Director

Rev your engines and catch the sermon on the road as it’s preached by everybody’s favourite Reverend. Don’t forget to keep an eye out for the 11th studio album from REVEREND HORTON HEAT, boldly titled Rev, due out January 21st.

https://www.facebook.com/reverendhortonheat

http://www.reverendhortonheat.com/


The Surfrajettes

What’s thicker, our eyeliner or our guitar strings? 

The Surfrajettes are a four-piece instrumental combo from Toronto, ON, Canada.  Since forming in late 2015, the band has charmed audiences with their clever mix of  psychedelic rock and reverb-drenched surf music, sky-high beehives, go-go boots, and eyeliner as thick as their guitar strings.  

The band achieved viral online notoriety from their home-made  

performance videos and their feature by Norman’s Rare Guitars in LA. The debut 45 single “Party Line / Toxic” released late 2018 on Hi-Tide Recordings to immediate success. The band has toured extensively in its support, including performances on The Beach Boys Cruise, The Melissa Etheridge Cruise, at Sea.Hear.Now, Nashville Boogie, Wild O Fest in Mexico City, The Surf Guitar 101Convention, Tiki Oasis & Hi Tide Summer Holiday:  Asbury Park.  

They spent the rest of 2020 and most of 2021writing and recording their debut LP  “Roller Fink” from Hi-Tide Recordings / Virgin Music, that released in 2022. Amidst  touring throughout the last few years in Canada, the U.S.A, and Europe, they wrote  their highly anticipated second LP, “Easy as Pie”, which released in October, 2025.  

The Surfrajettes are guitarists Shermy Freeman and Nicole Damoff, bassist Abby Jo  Powell, and drummer Annie Lillis. When not on tour, the group is busy woodshedding  in their secret beach hut, sewing new miniskirts, debating vintage gear, and  daydreaming about performing in a Quentin Tarantino movie.  

https://www.thesurfrajettes.com
https://www.youtube.com/@TheSurfrajettes

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The Exchange is wheelchair accessible and offers 2 non-gender/wheelchair-accessible washrooms.

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