“Some great bands come from Birmingh am, Templeton Pek are one of them!”
What can you tell us about the single 'Barriers' ? ‘Barriers’ was pretty much the first track we completed on this album and we were eager to get a song out to give people a taster of what’s coming. We didn’t want to sit on this material until album release. So we thought lets give it out for free to bridge the gap from now until release, and shot a budget video to accompany it. It’s likely we’ll have another single before or around the release too.
You played 'Artsfest' this year, how was that ? It was awesome. It’s always nice to play a large hometown show, especially on a big open stage like that. Last was great but this year it was amazing, the crowd were really up for it and I don’t think we could’ve gone down much better. Amazingly there’s still pictures, and videos popping up online from it. So here’s to next year.
You supported the massive Bad Religion, what was that like ? Really bizarre. We’d tried to get that support since we heard about it, but for whatever reasons it never came to fruition. Then on the day 2 hours before the show, we got a call asking if we’d like to play, which obviously was a no-brainer, a sold out 30th anniversary show with Bad Religion, problem was we were all in different parts of the city..... so it was a mad race to get to the venue in time for sound check, and before we knew it we were onstage then off it. It was a great show though one we’ll remember a long time.
What does the future hold for 'Templeton Pek' ? Well obviously the next album is in the can and ready to release so we’ll be starting the tour cycle for that in early 2011, we’d like to stretch out as far as we can and maybe get released in further territories and just get expanding and touring. UK and Europe tours are already scheduled for early 2011.