Indiana trio The Cold Stares play Sussex dates
On August 30 they play The Carlisle, Hastings; August 31 they play Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham; and September 3 they play The 1865, Southampton – all of which is a homecoming of a kind for singer-guitarist Chris Tapp who’s done the DNA tests and turns out to be 98 per cent Scottish and two per cent Welsh.
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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely this
00:06afternoon to be speaking all the way across the other side of the Atlantic to Chris Tapp
00:11of the band The Cold Stairs, who are heading for the South Coast. A number of dates on
00:16the South Coast on a new tour to the UK, with dates including Hastings, Shoreham and Southampton.
00:23And you love coming over to the UK, don't you? Partly because you are apparently 98%
00:29Scottish, 2% Welsh. That's it. I'll throw my wife in the plane and we might just stay
00:37over there. But yes, I love it. The country's beautiful, the people are beautiful and beautiful
00:42heritage of the kind of music that I love. So we're very excited to be back over.
00:47Yeah, and you were saying a really lovely thing that you sense that British audiences
00:51put the music first and foremost in the way perhaps audiences in the States don't,
00:57where the music could be secondary to a night out and a drink.
01:01Yeah, yeah, I think so. It's very nice to have discussions after the concert with our English
01:09fans and friends over there, because it's always an interesting dialogue. They know the music,
01:15they came out to see the show, and they put the effort into listening and discussing. So that's
01:23great. And the hard stairs, you've just told me, but tell me again, it's a fabulous story,
01:28why you are called the hard stairs. Yeah, the cold stairs. Yeah, the first time we played,
01:36we were brutally loud, just trying to compensate for not having a bass player. And we had quite
01:43the reaction. And we couldn't judge if it was a great reaction or just a stunned reaction. And I
01:48said, we got the cold stairs. And that just kind of stuck. And it's the perfect name. But since
01:54then, you have acquired the bass player, which gives you another dimension, presumably.
01:58Yeah, yeah. And you know, a lot of my greatest bands that I love the most, my greatest heroes
02:07are the Hendrix Trio and Cream and a lot of trios. So it feels good to be a trio at last.
02:15Perfect. Well, have a lovely trip over to the UK and wishing you a very, very happy tour with dates,
02:21as far as we're concerned, Hastings, Shoreham and Southampton. Great to speak to you, Chris. Thank
02:26you. You too, Phil. Thank you so much for having me.