"If we get some shitty party canons and launch two of them at the end of the show, and they look a bit pathetic, it still works": Meet The Hot Damn!, the colourful, chaotic party crashers intent on enlivening everything

The Hot Damn! publicity photo.

Gill Montgomery has come straight from the mortuary. Her mortuary, to be precise. Some rockers wait tables, others teach music or pick up temp work. The Hot Damn! frontwoman looks after dead people.

“It’s interesting,” she muses, of her day job running a funeral home in South East London. “It’s very hands-on. I think you’re either for it or you’re not.”