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Canadian indie pop band

The Hidden Cameras are a Canadian indie pop band. Fronted by singer songwriter Joel Gibb, the band consists of a varying roster of musicians who play what Gibb once described as "gay church folk music". Their live performances have been elaborate, high energy shows, featuring go go dancers in balaclavas, a choir, and a string section.

The band's first album, Ecce Homo, was released independently in 2001 on EvilEvil. It was after this first release that Gibb assembled a band and they began to perform in venues varying from art galleries to churches to porn theatres to parks. Since these early days the Hidden Cameras have played host to a number of notable musicians, including Reg Vermue, Owen Pallett, Laura Barrett, Don Kerr, Magali Meagher (of the Phonemes), Mike Olsen (of the Arcade Fire) and Maggie MacDonald.

Their 2003 album The Smell of Our Own was released through Rough Trade in the UK and on the independent label EvilEvil in Canada.

In 2004, they released Mississauga Goddam on Rough Trade and on EvilEvil in Canada. Their EP The Arms of His 'Ill was released by Absolutely Kosher Records in the same year, and it features jacket art created by Paul P. and G. B. Jones. In November 2005, the band collaborated with Toronto Dance Theatre on the show In the Boneyard at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. Dancers joined the band throughout the show and played instruments, and the band performed on stage in costume. Three of the songs from Mississauga Goddam ("We Oh We", "I Believe in the Good of Life" (a rerecorded version of the same song from the first album), and "Builds the Bone") are featured in the Canadian movie Whole New Thing. "We Oh We" is featured on the soundtrack of the German film Sommersturm (Summer Storm).

Awoo, their 2006 recording, was released on Rough Trade in Europe, EvilEvil in Canada, and in the U. S. on Arts & Crafts. The Hidden Cameras' song "Boys of Melody" is featured on the soundtrack of the John Cameron Mitchell film Shortbus. The Hidden Cameras song "Lollipop" is the theme song for the G. B. Jones film The Lollipop Generation from 2008, which Joel Gibb also appears. Also that year, they performed in a Take Away Show video by Vincent Moon.

Origin:Orphan, their fifth album, was mastered in May 2009. The music video for "In the NA", a song from this album, was screened at the 19th Annual Inside Out Film and Video Festival. The album was released on 22 September 2009. Five songs from Origin:Orphan were redone by electronic pop band from Barcelona Hidrogenesse and released under the name of Hidrogenesse versus the Hidden Cameras in May 2010. Also a video for "He Falls to Me" was done by Darío Peña. In 2011, they recorded a cover of Mecca Normal's "Throw Silver" for the compilation album Have Not Been the Same Vol. 1: Too Cool to Live, Too Smart to Die.

In 2013, the band appeared on two compilation albums from the label Arts & Crafts. The song "Mind, Matter and Waste", originally a B side from their 2009 "In the NA" single, appeared on Arts & Crafts: 2003 2013 and garnered airplay on CBC Radio 3, and the band collaborated with Snowblink on a cover of Duran Duran's "The Chauffeur" for Arts & Crafts: X. The album Age was released in January 2014. in Canada.