Lauren: Well you do look very alike, are you identical twins? Ryan: Sometimes the venues have trouble getting people to come out because it is a small town, and there’s not going to be like a show every night. And lots of people, they are starting bands. Sam: There was like an idle zone a few years back, when there was not a lot going on but then people realised that and started doing stuff. There’s like rolling hills and horse farms and stuff like that.Īll: It does, definitely. It breeds weirdos! But when you start to get out of the city, there’s lots of fields and its real pretty. Tony: It’s nice, but everyone there is pretty weird. Ryan: It’s on the Ohio River so it’s pretty cool. But from anywhere in the city you can pretty much get to anywhere else in the city in like, 20 minutes. You can’t really get around anywhere on public transport and we all live out in the suburbs. Tony: What else can we say about Louisville, well pretty much everyone has a car. That has nothing to do with us, but seeing as you don’t know anything about it I thought we’d tell you a bit about the place. It has lots of bourbon, and the Slugger baseball bat factory.
Louisville is about an eighth of the size of London, but it is a city. We’ve got the Kentucky Derby race which is probably the most famous horse race in the world. Ryan: At first I guess we should tell you a little bit about it. Tell us what it is like to grow up there and what is the city famous for? Surprisingly fresh faced after a racy night spent at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club the night before, Lauren Patel met up with the Louisville four-piece at their YHA digs by the River Thames in Rotherhithe for ice creams and to chat with them about life on the road, their debut album, and about how they are molding their rock and roll image. The band round off their trip with a headline gig of their own, playing trendy Dalston’s Victoria. Their first time in the UK, the Kentucky quartet are here to support label-mates Alvvays on their headline tour, playing at top venues across the country including Òran Mór in Glasgow, Manchester Academy, and London’s iconic Shepherds Bush Empire (SBE). All talents combined, the result is a bouncy fuzz of fun tracks guaranteed to please any live crowd. Starting out with stand-out track Make Me Wanna Die, the tracks continue on with an unapologetic catchiness combining singer and songwriter Eposito’s raspy vocals with guitar onslaught and psychedelic keyboard synth most prevalent on tracks Pills and Sheila. The 12-song medley of punk chaos engages the audience from start to finish. However, their biggest achievement to date came two months ago, with the release of their first full-length studio album, White Reaper Does It Again. A year on, they have a knockout self-titled EP under their belts, and a slot at SXSW to be proud of which has left them firmly cemented on promising new act lists across the U.S. Barely out of their teenage years they signed to Illinois based Polyvinyl Records in 2014 after ‘auditioning’ at Polyvinyl HQ.
It’s been a big year for Louisville punk-rock quartet White Reaper who are made up of singer and guitarist Tony Esposito, Ryan Hater on keyboard, and twin brothers Sam Wilkerson on bass and Nick Wilkerson on drums. headline tour to date.White Reaper: L-R: Tony Esposito, Ryan Hater, Nick Wilkerson, Sam Wilkerson (Kalpesh Patel) In the fall, the band will hit the road on their largest U.S. headline dates and perform their inaugural sets at the UK’s Reading and Leeds festivals. This summer, the Kentucky boys will embark on a run of U.S. The band has also been making rounds in the festival circuit with stops at Lollapalooza, ACL, and CalJam. Tony Esposito (guitar/vocals), Ryan Hater (keyboards), Sam Wilkerson (bass), Nick Wilkerson (drums), and Hunter Thompson (guitar) have been living on the road, performing headline shows and supporting some of their idols - The Killers, Spoon, and Weezer. White Reaper recently treated fans to an early taste of new music with the release of their brand new single “Might Be Right”. Nurturing arena-sized ambitions, Louisville, KY's White Reaper remind us that "fun as hell" is a primary purpose of music. Equal parts glam and grit, White Reaper's forthcoming Elektra Records debut finds the band packing classic rock with grinning twin guitar leads into masterly crafted pop songs. Expected later this year, the album will follow 2017’s critically acclaimed The World’s Best American Band, which was praised by Pitchfork for having "more riffs than you can fit into the trunk of a Camaro".
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