That means far more to me that somebody's made it available for others to listen to. I think it's a great compliment, somebody told us you could illegally download our album, like wow are you serious. ![]() ![]() So many people come up to us, and tell us on the way to the show we listened to you on Spotify and really got excited about it and that's great, but I'd much rather you just listen to our record, the whole thing. I think it's beautiful that so many young and un-noticed people can come up through the internet, but on the other hand I want to hear bands that record and tour a lot, they're really serious about being in a band. It's really hard for me to like a band until I see them live, I very rarely fall in love with a band until I've seen their live show.įor a young band like yourselves, is the prevalence of downloading and streaming a benefit? Jawws, who are from Nashville who are one of the best bands I've seen. Twin Peaks who are probably the most accurate modern interpretation of The Rolling Stones, like if the Stones broke into hardcore punk every once in a while. We played our label showcase and met a lot of people we've never met before we met Alvvays (who White Reaper are supporting on this tour).Īre there any US based bands that people should check out?īroncho who are from Oklahoma they're super poppy, rock and roll kind of like us. Not to mention you get to meet a lot of people. There were so many bands we wanted to see that were playing. But it ended up being really fun for us we had a free place to stay they gave us the keys to their house. We only played three shows, which is ridiculously low for a band playing. Ryan - I think I'm going to get 'Free bird' ( the Lynyrd Skynyrd track) across my arm, they're my favourite band. I think we're all going to get tattoos this weekend. We hate having days off, we like to play all the time. if we have to play a basement show for free we'll do that, we just want to play. I noticed the tour has a couple of days off. We turned on the TV and it was just fuzz, definitely more than one murder has happened there. It looks like it hasn't been touched since the seventies, its old school. ![]() We stayed there in Virginia and it's definitely haunted. Have you seen the movie Scream, at the end of the movie it's revealed that Billy's the Killer, so BTK. The last track on is album is B.T.K I've read through the lyrics and can't work out a reference to B.T.K. They played Forecastle (a Louisville festival) with us. The guy that recorded us Kevin Ratterman, he has parties every now and then and everyone from My Morning Jacket are at his parties, they're just guys who hang out. Yeah, they're the big band from the area. I know My Morning Jacket are from Louisville. I'm not knocking that, it's kind of how the scene works, everyone wants to go to a big city. More like Chicago, it's closer and cheaper than New York. There was a venue called Skull Alley which was the one all ages venue in town got shut down and we were what are gonna do now? But it's back now and it's pretty good, but a lot of people move away they'll do high school band then leave, most kids want to go to a big city. We were born out of a lull there wasn't too much going on, there was a really big all ages scene we were part of, basically a punk scene. It's cyclical over a decade, you'll look up and there'll be 20 new bands appeared, which is kind of where we are now, but it can also die. Tell us something about the music scene in Louisville? We call him Deadie, (laughter in the room) we've never properly called him that but that's our joke. ![]() If I went to a show and saw one of those T-shirts I'd want to buy it. Nobody does that stuff anymore, everyone wants to get all artsy it's a straight metal ass T-shirt. We liked the Iron Maiden merch, their look and Eddie so much we decided to rip it off. Looking at your logo and the character on your band merchandise (who's the spitting image of Eddie), were you Iron Maiden fans as well? We didn't consciously try to make album that sounded like that but it's going to happen. Everybody loves Nirvana, Nevermind, is one of the first CD's your friends show you. Yeah, basically all those bands you just mentioned. I hear on the album some Ramones, early Strokes, New York Dolls, Nirvana, was that the stuff you were listening to growing up in Louisville? It blows my mind that people this far away have even heard our music. We really appreciate that, and hope you enjoy the show. This year you've released your debut album (which people should be buying) 'White Reaper Does It Again', which I bought after hearing a track on NPR's All Songs Considered podcast. I'm backstage at The Leadmill in Sheffield with White Reaper, who are Tony Esposito (Guitars, Lead vocals), Ryan Hater (Keys), and twin brothers Nick (Drums) and Sam Wilkerson(Bass) to have a chat before tonight's show.
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