As bands go, Tape It Shut have had an incredibly action packed year filled with touring, recording, and writing for their new album. This week we caught up with keyboardist Jac Whitehouse and talked to him about how their year has been and whats happening with the band in general and what will be happening with the band.
We met up with Jac outside the Tape It Shut tour bus in Oxford for the show at the Oxford O2 academy. We asked Jac how the touring was going so far, this is what he had to say..........
"This year has been a crazy year for us, i feel like we have visited every place on the Earth!", he admitted to both him and the rest of the band being absolutely ecstatic to be touring the world, despite it being very intense gigging. "It would be an understatement if i was to say this was easy for us, the amount of organisation and preparation the went behind making this tour work was insane and the work load was incredibly heavy! It was hard for all of us to leave our families and friends too, but i have to say it is all definitely worth it, each and every one of us on this tour, band members, management, tech, everyone is having the time of their lives." To prove this, Jac had given us some inside gossip on the goings on of the tour as it has progressed. "Oh man! Where do I begin! We have had some crazy s*** happening on this tour! Every night is a party for us! A few weeks ago in Sweden Andy (Drummer of Tape It Shut) got arrested for having nurofen! The cops thought it was a hallucinogenic drug or somethin'." And even that's not all this motley crew. "We lost Sean and Jack one time in France cos they went out drinking before a show and seemed to just go bar hopping, one bar to another. Then By the time it was show time we finally found them on a curb of a random backstreet talking to a random guy who was either a dealer or homeless, or both." So so far it sounds like there have been so crazy times with the Tape It Shut gang. We had to ask Jac how much trouble him and the band have got into with police and anyone else after hearing all of this. "Surprisingly, apart from the nurofen incident, we haven't had much contact with the police, we've had bar tenders threatening to through us out, and we've been barred from a few clubs, but apart from that we've been behaving ourselves." So apart from ALL of that they've been been keeping out of trouble. We asked Jac how playing the new songs off their third album is to their fans. "Its awesome! We are getting great reception from the crowd even when we play new songs off the album which arent big singles, its great!"
We are sure your all familiar with the big news of the preparation for Tape It Shut's fourth album, and Jac has some exciting news to add to this. "We are currently writing our new album whilst on tour, and may I just say, I know I'm bias here, but i have to say it's sounding brilliant!" Sounding like good news to you? Well here is what to expect for the fourth album, "We went a bit more experimental on this new album, more electronic stuff, which being the keyboardist is a nice addition to the sound for me. We took inspiration from people like Mindless Self Indulgence and Powerman 5000 for this next record, all of us have been listening to those two bands non stop recently, epecially Dan, he is obsessed with them both! I personally would like to call it 'Space Punk' or somethin' like that." So it sounds like we will all be expecting something very new from Tape It Shut on this fourth album, but how do they think the fans will take it? "Each and every one of us understand that change is a big thing for a fan to deal with as its a change in sound and style which they may or may not like, but I can honestly say that although we have more electronics as i said, it is still us, we still have all the power chords and fast paced rhythms, you can tell its still us from the first song. We aren't going all electro dancey like Deadmau5 and Daft Punk, don't worry." Very trust worthy words there from Jac, looks like we will still seeing the band at the Reading and Leeds Lock Up Tent this year rather than The Dance Tent, so Tape It Shut fans be not afraid.
This then brings us on to the last subject of our interview with Jac. Now the massive success of the bands third album and the writing of the fourth album isn't the only big news revolving around Tape It Shut at this moment in time. There appears to be a big rumour spreading around rock fans everywhere that there is a co-headliner tour for the band which will visit America and Europe is planned with none other than the punk band Launch Control. We decided to interrogate Jac on this 'rumour', however he was playing his cards very close to his chest. "I can neither confirm, nor deny the possibility of this supposed tour with the lads of Launch Control, next question..." Judging by the big smirk on his face as he said this, it looks like this tour may be more than just a rumour..........
This then brings us on to the last subject of our interview with Jac. Now the massive success of the bands third album and the writing of the fourth album isn't the only big news revolving around Tape It Shut at this moment in time. There appears to be a big rumour spreading around rock fans everywhere that there is a co-headliner tour for the band which will visit America and Europe is planned with none other than the punk band Launch Control. We decided to interrogate Jac on this 'rumour', however he was playing his cards very close to his chest. "I can neither confirm, nor deny the possibility of this supposed tour with the lads of Launch Control, next question..." Judging by the big smirk on his face as he said this, it looks like this tour may be more than just a rumour..........
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