KEROUAC ARE ONE OF MY FAVOURITE BANDS IN THE UK AT THE MOMENT.
THEY HAVE A POWERFUL SOUND TAKING INSPIRATION FROM SCREAMO TO BLACK METAL TO HIP-HOP.
THEY’RE CURRENTLY ON TANGLED TALK RECORDS WHO HAVE RELEASED THEIR SPLIT WITH THE LONG HAUL AS WELL AS THEIR FIRST EP “COLD, DISTANT AND NOT LOVING” THEY’VE ALSO RELEASED A SPLIT EP WITH CRUSH TITANS PARISO WHICH WAS CO-RELEASED BY TANGLED TALK AND HOLY ROAR RECORDS.
A WHILE BACK I CAUGHT UP WITH THOM DENSON (VOCALIST) FROM KEROUAC AND HERE’S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.
ME: So what was it that made you guys start Kerouac in the first place?
THOM: We decided to start writing the music we play now after playing in bands together for years. We felt constrained with what we were doing before so we decided we wanted to write and play with more freedom. It’s real humbling when others like what you’re doing but ultimately we write for ourselves and are always looking to change our sound with each release, but to stay within our realm of intense and emotive music. No matter what we’re writing it needs to have those characteristics or it’s not us anymore.
ME: Which bands would you say have influenced your sound as a band?
THOM: We all listen to different music so I can’t really say who influences as directly. We sound the way we do because of everything we listen to.
ME: Who would you recommend checking out at the moment if someone was looking for new music? THOM: There’s always too much music to recommend, in Southampton there’s an abundance of good friends of ours making great music. The Long Haul, Our Time Down Here, Drawings, Burn the Fleet, run, WALK!, Fuzz, Sweetheart, Apollo’s Arrows, Bury Tomorrow, Polio and For this World is Hollow and these Hands Have Touched the Sky are all doing brilliant things and we’re really lucky to come from a city with so much incredible music coming out of it Looking further afield, you really should be listening to Kasa (listen to Thom Weeks’ solo stuff and Luke’s other band Holland too), Bastions, Pariso, Ravachol, Goodtime Boys, Crocus, Senator, Veils, Last Witness, Witch Cult, Hospitals, Blak Nite, Maths, November Coming Fire, The Saddest Landscape, Pianos Become the Teeth etc. Other than friends, I can’t stop listening to the new records from Bon Iver, Shabazz Palaces, SBTRKT, WU LYF, The Antlers and When Saints Go Machine. ME: Do you go to shows for fun, if so who was the last live band that blew you away? THOM: Yeah, all the time. The best thing about being in this band is getting to go to good shows for free. I saw Slipknot the other day at Knebworth and suffice to say, they were stunning, biggest show i’ve ever seen and I was totally blown away. Definitely regressed to being a 12 year old for the time they were on. On a smaller scale, there’s a band from Southampton called Drawings and they’re utterly incredible and should be huge, massive, well-written rock songs, can’t say enough good things about them.
ME: You’ve recently recorded at Maida Vale for the BBC, that’s awesome, how did that come about? THOM: Yeah it was a surreal but great experience. I think it was that Dan P. Carter got in touch with Alex at Holy Roar Records about it the week before and obviously we said yes and that was that. Obviously being a tiny band from Southampton it’s a pretty big deal to record somewhere like that but you’re made to feel so welcome that you don’t really think about the gravitas of the place too much. I was told after I’d finished my vocals that a stain on the mic foam was from Marilyn Manson’s lipstick, insane. (THIS MAIDA VALE SESSION IS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD FROM - eightgreatfears.blogspot.com) ME: So what’s next for Kerouac? THOM: Write the album, play some shows, quick euro weekender with Pariso in September, Tangled Tour in October. KEROUAC CAN BE FOUND AT: http://kerouacband.wordpress.com/ http://kerouacband.bandcamp.com/
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