Will Gould promises Creeper will “reinvent everything and be bold & fearless” on album no.2

Creeper singer Will Gould has vowed that the band will completely reinvent themselves when it comes to their second album.

Moments after the band’s Main Stage triumph at Download Festival early on Saturday afternoon, Will caught up with Kerrang! Radio’s Jack Wood for a wide-ranging chat.

With March’s chart-denting debut album ‘Eternity, in Your Arms’ picking up rave reviews and the band’s stature growing by the minute, Jack asked Will whether they’re now feeling the pressure to up the ante on their next release.

Refreshingly brushing aside such qualms, Will said: “We never really worry about that sort of stuff that much because as soon as you start worrying about that stuff, you start making rubbish (music) and creating rubbish stuff as well.

“The ideas we had in the past was of the time when we started. When we move onto the next thing we’ll reinvent everything and we have to be bold and fearless with it because if we didn’t it would be half-arsed and a half step in a way.”

Revealing the ethos of Creeper’s Callous Heart Patches, which are almost omnipresent at this year’s Download, Will explained: “It was reminiscent of a time in Southampton when I was a kid where there would be like a show on and it would be a punk show; it would be like a ska band playing, a punk band playing, a metal band playing and because it was under this bracket of alternative music all the kids were coming together at the shows.

“I felt that as we got older there were kind of like these divides in the scene. The idea for the Callous Heart was that the Creeper kind of reaches a lot of different kids like goth kids, deathcore kids, hardcore kids, punk kids and so if you saw that Callous Heart patch at a show you know you had a friend there straight away, someone you could talk to and someone that was into the same sort of stuff as you. It’s kind of reclaiming music for everybody rather for than one little niche.”

For a man who first visited Download Festival as a 13-year-old with his mum, Will admits that the idea of playing the Main Stage was unthinkable once.

“We played it two years ago, we played a little stage over there and I was like ‘we should drink it in boys, it’s the only time we’re going to play’ and then they invite us back to open that stage,” Will says.

“It’s like ‘how did we end up doing this?’, it’s all a bit surreal. Certainly, one of those shows that’s going to be locked in my brain for a long time.”

Elsewhere in the chat, Will revealed the creepiest thing he’s ever done: “Me and Ian (Miles) broke into an old church once and we were in the basement of the church it was in the middle of the night. They were building on this church and it was really easy to get in, so we went to the bottom and sprayed a big pentagram. It was terrifying.”

Watch the full interview below where Will talks luscious hair tips, being a massive Disney nerd, rebranding the Aerosmith ride ‘The Creepercoaster’, being the Ed Wood of music, how Creeper is a “pantomime with a real heart to it” and the band’s special plans for the Theatre of Fear tour including their epic Southampton homecoming!

Creeper’s UK tour takes in the following shows:

DECEMBER 2017

Glasgow O2 ABC – Sun 3rd

Birmingham O2 Institute – Mon 4th

Bristol Trinity – Tue 5th

London O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire – Thu 7th

Manchester Albert Hall – Sat 9th

Southampton O2 Guildhall – Sun 10th

Tickets go on sale from Kerrang! Radio Tickets at 10am on Monday 12th June.

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