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Having risen to fame as the lead singer\/songwriter for various punk rock outfits including Paint It Black and The Loved Ones, Dave Hause<\/b> was already well established before taking his first steps into the realms of being a solo artist. His first solo show was way back in 2009, as part of Chuck Ragan\u2019s folk and punk variety show The Revival Tour. However it wasn\u2019t until 2011 when he released his first solo effort, \u2018Resolutions\u2019<\/i> that Dave Hause<\/b>\u2019s solo career began to snowball.<\/p>\n
Now having toured with punk heavy weights such as Alkaline Trio, Gaslight Anthem and Social Distortion, he\u2019s back with second album \u2018Devour\u2019<\/i>. Released in October to positive reviews, \u2018Devour\u2019<\/i> is a biting criticism of the American Dream and the state of things today. As well as critical acclaim, demand for Hause has led to him playing (and selling out) bigger venues, and his current EU tour is his most monumental yet.<\/p>\n
As said European tour draws to a close, we caught up with a slightly late and incredibly apologetic Dave Hause<\/strong> to discuss touring, signing to Rise Records, the new album and his picks of 2013 and 2014.<\/p>\n Already Heard: So for a start how\u2019s the EU tour going?<\/strong> AH: Hence you have fruit\u2026<\/strong> AH: So as you were saying, you\u2019ve played some big shows and you\u2019ve supported big bands like Gaslight and Alkaline Trio, and you\u2019ve played your own sets which are more intimate \u2013 what do you prefer doing?<\/strong> AH: Who are your favourite bands that you\u2019ve toured with? <\/strong> AH: You\u2019re constantly on tour, so how do you keep going? Aside from fruit and Jameson\u2019s? <\/strong> AH: It\u2019s kind of in your nature?<\/strong> AH: So you signed to Rise Records at the start of this year, what prompted you to make the move? <\/strong> AH: Which you got to re-release, which is awesome. <\/strong> AH: ‘Devour\u2019<\/em>\u2019s been met with a really good critical response, is that important? Does that matter to you? <\/strong> AH: ‘Devour\u2019<\/em> deals with a lot of weighty issues and a lot of it seems really confessional. Do you write a lot from experience or is it what you\u2019ve observed generally? <\/strong> AH: You mention in it quite a lot about being your Father\u2019s Son, that seems like a reoccurring theme for the album, is that a generational or a personal concern? <\/strong> AH: I\u2019ve noticed that the album is in two parts almost, it starts off quite introspective, asking can you change? And it ends in a more uplifting way.<\/strong> AH: Was it written that way or was it revealed to you as you went through the process? <\/strong> Already Heard: You find you\u2019re more of a \u2018glass half empty\u2019 kind of person?<\/strong> AH: The song ‘Autism Vaccine Blues\u2019<\/em> (the second single from ‘Devour\u2019<\/em>) is such a loaded title, what made you choose it? <\/strong> AH: On a lighter note, because it\u2019s nearly the end of the year, what have been your albums of this year?<\/strong> AH: Who are you looking forward to in 2014? What albums should we be listening to?<\/strong> AH: Any final thoughts? <\/strong> \u2019Devour\u2019<\/i> by Dave Hause<\/b> is out now on Rise Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n Dave Hause <\/strong>links: Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a>|Website<\/a><\/p>\n Words by Jay Sullivan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having risen to fame as the lead singer\/songwriter for various punk rock outfits including Paint It Black and The Loved Ones, Dave Hause was already well established before taking his first steps into the realms of being a solo artist. His first solo show was way back in 2009, as part of Chuck Ragan\u2019s folk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,8181],"tags":[62,2288,11209,5878,18],"class_list":["post-25644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","category-post","tag-already-heard","tag-dave-hause","tag-devour","tag-interviews","tag-rise-records"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nDave Hause: It\u2019s been wild, really, really exciting to take some risks and play some rooms so that I didn\u2019t want play because I thought they were too big and then most of them sold out. It\u2019s been crazy. So it\u2019s interesting because you have to really think about what you\u2019re doing when people are paying for a ticket with your name on it. You have to plan your show and get sleep and water, and you just can\u2019t fuck off to the pub.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave Hause: Yeah, Jameson\u2019s and wine too! It\u2019s been an interesting curve to learn what to do.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave: It\u2019s exciting to make the climb, I\u2019ll be honest it\u2019s really exciting to go from two minutes into your set no one knows who you are and at the end everyone\u2019s clapping; that\u2019s an exciting thing to pull off. But I think long term when you write songs and you try to make this your lifestyle you want your own audience and you want to cultivate that. So I think headlining I would prefer but I like the thrill of being thrown out\u00a0at somebody\u2019s wolves and fend for yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave: All the bands I\u2019ve toured solo with have been amazing. I did stuff with Social D over here, I did stuff with Alkaline Trio, Gaslight, Revival Tour, some Hot Water Music stuff, it\u2019s been amazing. They\u2019re all my punk brethren, I feel fortunate to be able to play with any of those bands. I respect them all, I love all their songs, I listen to all different kinds of music but it\u2019s great to have the respect of your peers. It\u2019s a good feeling to know that people you respect also respect your work.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave: It\u2019s like anything else; when you love what you do it doesn\u2019t feel much like work. Well it does feel like work sometimes, but it\u2019s exciting to try to turn all these little corners and see what\u2019s next. This is what I love to do so it makes the gruelling part a little a little less gruelling. At this point I\u2019ve spent so many years touring that\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave Hause: Yeah, I feel lazy when I\u2019m not doing it. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave: It was a licensing scenario; labels, what they do is pretty different from what I usually do but they\u2019re huge music fans and they were fans of \u2018Resolutions\u2019. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave: Yeah, Xtra Mile looked after me well here in the UK and Europe but, what I\u2019ve learned over the years is that the best thing to do is to work with people who are excited about what you\u2019re doing and [are trying to] cultivate the best singer\/songwriter available. If they\u2019re not initially part of that conversation then it\u2019s not worth even chasing it and Rise came and they had a good deal and they were excited about all the things my team wanted to do, me and my manager and my booking agent and all that stuff, so we went with them and they\u2019re good people. I think that\u2019s the most important thing these days because really you just make your own thing, the days of being on a label that helps sculpt you are done, no one cares. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave: It does, what I\u2019ve discovered is that as you grow you get to work with better interviewers, better journalists, better publications and the meaning of that is not necessarily that they\u2019re valued more, because anybody who is interested is valuable, but people who know how to interview in a way that\u2019s compelling and they don\u2019t ask you questions about stuff you don\u2019t want to talk about or things that you\u2019ve already gone over. There\u2019s so many times in the earlier days where, you could refer the entire interview to Wikipedia and that\u2019s not interesting so I think that is important that people who write for those different magazines and do those different things are big music fans and they\u2019ve seen a lot go down, again it\u2019s nice to have the respect of your peers. At the end of the day though, the important thing is the fans and the people that want to come see you, that\u2019s what I\u2019m most worried about. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave: On this record it\u2019s more about experience than it is observational but the important thing to keep in mind is that not every piece of information in the record is about me. The perspective might be changed or the tense, it\u2019s definitely stories from my generation, people who grew up in the 80\u2019s, it\u2019s definitely an American record. It\u2019s pretty confessional. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave: It\u2019s a generational thing. My dad\u2019s a great guy, he\u2019s a wonderful person, he\u2019s not been up to the same bullshit that I\u2019ve been up to. He\u2019s a family man and he\u2019s very reliable, he\u2019s a great musician who decided not to play rock \u2018n\u2019 roll and to raise a family. He\u2019s a kind of religion guy, but really that term is more of a poetic license thing, [meaning] can you change the person that you were born into? Can you shine light into the dark parts of who you are or are you stuck? And I think hopefully that for me, and for people my age, you keep trying and you keep that hope alive so that you can be better, despite all the broken hearts and rough parts of getting older; when you realised it\u2019s not going to work out the way that you were promised that you can cultivate something of your own. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave Hause: That\u2019s intentional. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave: No the first four songs on the record were the first four songs that I\u2019d written, and then I wrote the next little batch, it\u2019s actually kind of in thirds. It\u2019s like where did I come from, how did I get this way, where am I at and then the last third is like where can we go? It was intentional, it was just hard to finish because I wanted to have a hopeful ending and sometimes it\u2019s hard to find the silver lining. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave: I try to fight that. I do have that tendency and I think it\u2019s good because you can sift through a lot of bullshit but it can be depressing and I think the best people, just thinking about Nelson Mandela, are the people that keep hope alive for other human beings. If you have that stage, you have that sort of ability to have people interested in what you\u2019re doing then I think you have a responsibility to try and put something positive out there out into the world instead of letting blackness come out. It\u2019s interesting because two records that I thought about when I was two thirds of the way through writing ‘Devour\u2019 were ‘In Utero\u2019 and ‘The Downward Spiral\u2019. They\u2019re two of my favourite records but the problem with those is that I don\u2019t put those on and listen to them anymore because they\u2019re heavy, and I can\u2019t necessarily go down that road all the time. I wanted to make a record that had all that heavy stuff but also you could put it on and go down to the beach and not get bummed out. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave Hause: Yeah, ‘Autism Vaccine Blues\u2019 is a loaded title; I think the question that I\u2019m trying to figure out is, is anybody capable of dealing with modern life and everything that\u2019s coming at us? What I\u2019ve observed with people who have autism is that there\u2019s a certain amount of their senses that are shut off and you wonder if that\u2019s actually them evolving so that they can cope. Because my phones buzzing and the stress of modern life is tough and I wonder if I was shut off to some of it if I wouldn\u2019t be a happier person. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave Hause: There\u2019s been some great ones that came out! Patty Griffin made one called \u2018American Kid\u2019 that I love, Frightened Rabbit record \u2018Pedestrian Verse\u2019 I really love, and that Arcade Fire record is cool. I do like the Kanye West record; I think it\u2019s really brave and crazy and out there \u2013 it\u2019s a cool one. Northcote\u2019s record I love, it\u2019s a really great record just to hop in the car and enjoy. There\u2019s been a lot of them! Neko Case\u2019s record is awesome, Jason Isobel\u2019s record is a total song writing triumph. It\u2019s incredible, so yeah there\u2019s been some good records out this year. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave: I\u2019m hoping Jenny Lewis makes some kind of record, either Rilo Kiley or her own or who knows what. Same thing with Conor Oberst, whatever he\u2019s going do. I\u2019m really fired up on My Morning Jacket\u2019s upcoming record, they\u2019re in the studio now. I got to work with the keyboard player, he played on nearly every song on ‘Devour\u2019. He\u2019s a music genius and he\u2019s in a band full of musical geniuses so whatever they\u2019re cooking up is gonna be exciting. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nDave: No just thanks for the interview, thanks for waiting around, I\u2019m sorry about the delay and enjoy the show. I appreciate it.<\/em><\/p>\n