ZEROSCAPE are one of the most hard-working bands you will ever come across.

Their mentality over the last seven years has been to pawn everything they own roughly once every 18 months and then use the money to buy plane tickets to another continent, a van from somebody over eBay in the country they are going to, and just enough to feed themselves.

They then spend as long as their visas allow them gigging everywhere they can for somewhere around six months at a time.

Last time I caught up with them, they had just come and dropped in to Malton to play a gig at Suddabys (which still goes down as one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen), they then drank a local bar dry with some of the bands and audience form the gig.

Now, that might sound like pretty normal rockstar behaviour, but how many rock bands do you know that would be up at 8am (having gone to bed at about 6am) doing their morning workout of sit-ups followed by breakfast?

They even had the energy to challenge some of the locals to a game of football later that morning . Where do some people get the energy from? The mind boggles.

So, when I heard that they had managed to land a pretty great support slot with InMe, I had to get hold of them for a quick couple of words to find out how they were doing and how it had all come about.

Since you were last over in the UK, you’ve had a couple of bassists come and go, how difficult has it been to find the right person?

Yeah we had a lot of people get in touch but it’s really important for us that the person we chose was awesome at bass, brought their own style but still fitted in well. When you are spending half a year at a time in a van driving all over the world you really find out if you can get on with someone or not. When we were last touring, we played in 13 countries across the European mainland and by about the fourth country we wanted to leave one of our former bassists on the side of the road. We’d all had enough of him. Max is an awesome guy and a great bassist to so its all worked out in the end.

You’re touring with one of the UK’s best rock bands, InMe. How did that come about and how is the tour going?

When we were touring the UK a few years ago, we played with InMe at a couple of shows and we all got on really well. We have been aiming to come back over a while now and this was the perfect chance so we jumped on board. The tour has been awesome, the crowds have been great and its been great to see some friendly faces to.

Zeroscape has played more than 400 shows, which is the best band you’ve ever played with?

Ahhh, that’s impossible to say because we’ve shared the stage with more than a thousand different bands. We’ve played with The Killers, The Hives, InMe, Five Finger Death Punch and some amazing bands that people might not have heard of. I think that every band has something to offer and you should get respect you for getting up and playing on stage.

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