Eat Your Hearts Out

Jamie Delerict from Teenage Casket Company interview

They’ve been here, there and virtually everywhere this year and they’re winding down their gigs with a stop off in London to play Pure Rawk’s Unleashed and Loaded CD release party on the 5th December. Jamie Delerict (vocalist and guitarist) tells us what TCC has been upto, their brand spanking new video and the plans for the coming months.

Nix: The Eat Your Heart Out EP - seems to have got some good reviews, what were the main influences on that?
JD: Song by song, here you go:
1. Don't Look At Me Like That: Rob Wylde was house sitting for me while I was on holiday a while back. He started listening to my SHAMPOO albums and then wrote a song!
2. Cocaine: The TOP GUN soundtrack mainly.
3. Hatred: It's a D GENERATION cover. All members of D-Gen love it by the way. I get a kick out of knowing that....
4. Thankyou For Nothing: Wylde doesn't realise it, but he wrote his first pop-punk song right here. Kind of FENIX TX meets RAMONES or something.
5. Believe In You: An unashamedly 80's inspired hair-metal ballad. It reminds me a little of SKID ROW personally. Makes the girls all wet and the guys all sick!
6. Eat Your Heart Out: I like to think that it has the speed and anger of AFI and the gritty swagger of SOCIAL DISTORTION.
Those are only my opinions. Kerrang compared us to BULLETS & OCTANE. Huh?!

N: You've got a video for "Don't Look at Me Like That" coming out soon, tell us a little about that?
JD: We're releasing it December 1st! Obviously without the huge financial backing, it'll be hard to get on TV, but we'll give it a shot. It's got a really cool storyline (based on real-life events), a live performance, hot dancing girls (The Glitter Kittens) and some steamy sex scenes. I got to do a toilet cubicle scene with a girl I met just ten minutes earlier that day. The whole shoot was a lot of fun. We gave acting parts to some of our fans and friends who've supported us from the start. Some got a little more than they bargained for though....

N: What else have you been up to since we last chatted for Pure Rawk?
JD: Working our fucking balls off and playing as many gigs as we possibly could. I think we've done a second US tour, an Irish tour and been to Italy since last we talked.

N: You've had a bit of an eventful year with gigs and stuff, whats been the highlights and the lowlights? Has it turned out the way you expected?
JD: High points have been many. Certainly the METAL SLUDGE US tour was a fantastic experience. It's a cliche, but all the shit you go through to get to the actual "performance" part of the day fades away once the rock cometh on stage. Lowlights would certainly be halfway starving to death on various tours and simply being constantly broke. Still, we chose this life right?! We're not exactly where we want to be right now, so that means more hard work in 2007...

N: You're playing the Pure Rawk gig on the 5th of December ... whats to expect from that with regards to you lads?

JD: You've seen us a bunch of times now Nix. You know what we're gonna do. We've played with and/or know all of the other bands on the bill and have full respect for them. Brothers in rock. But we're gonna try to do what I would hope the other groups are gonna try to do that night ... and that's STEAL THE FUCKIN' SHOW!

N: For anyone whos not seen you before, how would you describe your live set?
JD: We ALWAYS give it our all. Just ask the five people that saw us perform one time a few months back. Let's just say that we don't just stand there and play our instruments shall we?

N: Favourite song you play?
JD: Mine's "Hatred". I like to pretend that it's 1996, I'm signed to a major label, living in New York and a member of D GENERATION.

N: Bands you'd like to give a shout out to?
JD: The three best bands in the UK besides us right now are THE DANGERFIELDS, VAMPS & GYPSIES and PATCHWORK GRACE.

N: Whats next? What are the plans for the next year?
JD: We're gonna play out our remaining bookings and then take a few months off to re-group, get our heads together and write our next record. If shows come along, we're gonna cherry-pick and not drive ourselves into the ground like we have this year! There's a few UK tour options available which could be interesting, a definite Italian tour coming and another American tour is always only a phone call away ... Cheers 'n that.

Be sure to check out the review of their latest release "Eat Your Heart Out"! For a listen to some of their tunes, be sure to check out their MySpace page or their official website. Their brand new video, "Don't Look At Me Like That" is released from the 1st December so be sure to check that out on MySpace and YouTube - hell, start badgering your favourite music channel now.

Images and words by Nicola "Nix" Crichton.

© Pure Rawk 2006