THE POET
Will Gould led Creeper out of the darkness and into the spotlight
HOW DID IT FEEL TO FINALLY RELEASE YOUR DEBUT ALBUM, eternity in yoUr arms, BACK IN MARCH?
“I was hoping that people would hear something really creative and go, ‘Hey, I should start a band myself’, because that’s exactly how I ended up in this position with Creeper. I was really hoping for a reaction, and I feel like we got one, which is wonderful.”
WERE YOU NERVOUS ABOUT IT?
“A lot of the time when people assume that we’re probably nervous about something, the rest of the guys are probably trying to jump into a swimming pool, or messing around somewhere on tour. Ian [Miles, guitar] bought a butterfly knife the other day and that’s been a nightmare – we’ve all got cut fingers trying to do tricks with it. But most of the time the dynamic with the band is a fun one. Even in times of stress, that’s what pulls us together.”
WHAT WAS IT LIKE PLAYING DOWNLOAD’S MAIN STAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME?
“I had been going to see bands at Donington Park since Ozzfest in 2001 or 2002. I don’t think that there’s been a single metal fan or rock music fan alive that doesn’t go to those things and think, ‘Oh my god, I wonder what it’s like to be on that stage?’ To live my childhood dream was absolutely bizarre, but really, really fun.”
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO TOP eternity in yoUr arms?
“I know full well this is it for this initial cycle. We see Creeper as a production house – like a film we’ve been making for a long time. We’d made some shorts and now we’ve made the real thing. This is the band that we are right now, but it certainly won’t be the band that we are for the next record that we make, if we were to make another record... which isn’t a certainty. Nothing is decided yet.”