Another Tour Therapy band, Nashville’s The Dead Weather. I really got into this album toward the end of the US tour. We rented a small room in Brooklyn for about 7 weeks in notorious Bedford Styvesant, to set up the remaining leg of the tour (September). One night somebody started shooting out in the street. After the 2nd shot Max was like “OK, let’s turn off the lights and get down” – which we did pretty quickly. The shooting stopped, nobody got hurt, the lights stayed off.

It was during the Brooklyn stay that I discovered The Dead Weather. I’d heard a few singles on radio back home but I hadn’t paid much attention. Chris Bourque, our Texan bass guitarist, gave me the Horehound album (released 2009) and it quickly grew on me. It’s an often sparse, chilling sound. Spooky and dark, then it bursts into hard garage-rocking mayhem. There’s a real soul to what’s happening underneath the drama, particularly in the vocal delivery. The video above features the 1st track on the record, ’60 Feet Tall’.

Checkya tomorrow,
Fires out.