Gothic Theatre
Fifth Hour Hero
It’s time for us to bring the truth about FIFTH HOUR HERO. So here are our confessions, may the Lord help us…
“Just who is the 5 o’clock hero?” is a song from a band called The Jam, pioneers of British punk. So… yes, not only did we steal the title of this song, but we also rephrased it so we would feel less ashamed of ourselves. Besides that, the original title would not have fitted on the cover of our first demo tape. We can already hear you screaming: “Poor morons, don’t any of you have an imagination?” Well to those we will answer: “Goddamnit, you got it!”
In spit of everything, we’ve been able to limit the damages. Our poor English probably made us look like incoherent fools more than a few times but we’ve been clever enough to realize that names like FIFTH OUR ZERO and KISSES AND GUNS RADIO STORIES (believe it or not we do have a demo under that name) would have just made things worst. Fortunately, Philippe Tremblay, first bass player of the formation and an incredible literary thinker, has been able to find the right metaphor that defined us and followed us ever since.
We are not going to lie, Fifth Hour Hero is one of those many bands that went through a lot. We’re now admitting that we once had problems dealing with success. Drug addictions and sex abuse could probably explain why so many people played in that band, and why so few stayed.
But those days are gone and today’s stability is more than appreciated. Olivier Maguire, Dave Chamberland, Mathieu Guilbault (aka Ballou or Guilbant) and Geneviève Tremblay finally found peace since the summer of 2000 within Fifth Hour Hero. We try to keep our heads away from the vice of the world and get together a few days a week for our sake, for prayers, singing and dancing.
Along the way, we had in our ranks competent diplomats whom helped us build the Fifth Hour Hero capital. Without them, success and glory would not be a part of our lives today. It started out with a few demo tapes including one on Mintaka Conspiracy in 1999 (we may ignore the existence of this demo at any moment). Then, in 2000, Cyclop Records put out our first CDep “Collected in Comfort.” In the year 2003, Dare To Care Records released the vinyl version of this release and Cyclop did a new press with a different layout. No Idea Records released a split LP with Gunmoll in 2002 and released “Scattered Sentences”, our first full length album and a 7 inche/cdep called “You Have Hurt My Business and My Reputation Too”in 2003.
Our professionalism in the domain of licking little leather circles (aka buttholes) gave us the chance to conquer the whole of North America. Four American tours perfectly booked (?) , tons of shit for sale, good lobbying and finally, developing a love/hate relationship with God. Four steps to reach the top!
