More than a million albums sold, more than 150 million streams on Spotify, a number one album in your homeland, arena support tours with Coldplay and the Rolling Stones, gracing the stages of Glastonbury, Lollapalooza and Coachella, being nominated and winning a number of prestigious ARIA Awards in Australia, as well as receiving a nomination for best international group at the BRIT Awards. It was a good few years for The Temper Trap.
For the third album they looked to collaborate for the first time outside of the band on songwriting, most notably with Malay (co-writer and producer on Frank Ocean’s seminal Channel Orange record), Justin Parker (best known for his work with Lana Del Rey, as well as Sia and Bat For Lashes), Ben Allen (Bombay Bicycle Club, Animal Collective, Deerhunter) and Pascal Gabriel (Ladyhawke, Goldfrapp). In 2013 the band began work on their own studio space at Tileyard in north London (home to Mark Ronson and the Prodigy, amongst others) and this gave them a home. This took them to Byron Bay and LA with Malay, to downtown Montreal, home to producer Damian Taylor, whose credits include working with Bjork, the Prodigy and Arcade Fire, and the Killers’ very own rebirth album Battle Born. From there back to Snap Studios in London to use “all this great old vintage gear” with producer Rich Cooper (BANKS, Mystery Jets), and even back to Sing Sing in Melbourne, where their debut album took shape.
The Temper Trap in 2016 is a consolidation of what made the band matter to people in the first place. The title Thick As Thieves seemed a natural choice. Anthemic, direct, up, emotive music, typified by the first three songs that came: ‘So Much Sky’, ‘Summer’s Almost Gone’ and ‘Burn’.
Thick As Thieves, which was released in June, is the sound of a band who have taken risks but have also re-connected with why they fell in love with music in the first place. “I look back very fondly on those times, back at the start, when we were really having to work for it,” says Mandagi. “And it feels a bit like that now. And that is really cool.”
Line up:
18:00 doors
19:00 I Love You Honey Bunny
20:00 THE TEMPER TRAP
21:30 end
