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On A Mission To Rock
On A Mission To Rock

f Beth Blade has one mission it’s to play rock ‘n’ roll music, have a good time and get in front
Iof a crowd as often as possible. She’s doing well so far – her sophomore album, ‘Show Me
Your Teeth’, the follow-up to ‘Bad Habit’, has made it to the masses, she’s performed on a KISS
Kruise, at Hard Rock Hell and Planet Rockstock, and she’s definitely having a lot of fun in the
process. But it hasn’t always been easy, as she begins by telling Black Velvet...

hen I was kid, specifically a teenager, I was bullied for being biggest love which is making music.”
“Wdifferent,” Beth tells Black Velvet, looking back. “It didn’t matter Nick Brine, who produced the album, was fantastic,
though, because I’d walk down the street with my Sony Walkman blasting according to Beth. “He has a wealth of experience,
some KISS and their lyrics were so empowering and positive that I felt good humour and a real ease that helps pull the
that it didn’t matter that people didn’t like me because I’d work hard and best out of you as a performer. He’s worked with
make my dreams come true no matter what they said about me.” The Darkness, Thunder and Bruce Springsteen
Who knew that years down the line she would actually be playing on and he just had a wonderful natural instinct.
KISS’s well-known KISS Kruise herself. Yes, her dreams ARE coming true. These are all things we need as a band. He
Beth (who had previously attended the KISS Kruise as a fan) and her band also has a dog called Kenny Dogleash who
set sail in November 2018 after winning a competition to play on the happens to be credited on a lot of albums.”
cruise. “I honestly didn’t think we’d even get selected for the top ten let
alone win,” she says. “It was honestly the greatest musical experience of he final song on ‘Show Me Your
my entire life.” She can thank fans though, who voted her band to play TTeeth’ is a drinking song called
the cruise. “It’s been my dream to open for KISS since the first time I 'Jack And Coke'. This was a last
picked up a guitar and played ‘Cold Gin’. You can’t buy an experience like minute addition and came at the 11th
that.” hour. It is usually the last minute
Following the cruise, she was very inspired. Beth tells us, “I actually songs that always turn out to be the
wrote the first song for our next album a few days after we got back. It’s best. Beth tells us, “Honestly, I
about an unforgettable night that includes nearly killing someone with a wrote this one ten minutes before
champagne cork.” we entered the studio. We had 11
songs and we’d told the producer
side from KISS, Beth is a fan of many bands from the 70s, so it’s we were doing 12. I thought, ‘We
Ano surprise she wrote a song called ‘1974’ which sees her sing are a rock band and we don’t
‘I’d rather be in 1974’. She tells us, “I just think the whole era provided have a song about drinking!’ I
some of the greatest music ever written. The fashion, the attitude, it just got the riff and then I was like,
aligns more with who I am and what I’m about. People were expressive ‘Well, there’s no drink affili-
and creative. The music industry back then was certainly more supportive ated with rock ‘n’ roll more
in terms of the financial side/promotion side of things and the lack of in- than Jack and Coke.
ternet just added to the mystique of We’ve had many
the artists.” Though Beth is still an a hazy night
ardent fan of today’s connectivity drinking it and
via the worldwide web and espe- ________________________ it’s only right that
cially how much easier it is to dis- CELEBRATING we honour it with
cover new artists in this day and its own song.’”
age. “The best thing about the in- Black Velvet #100 Another song
ternet now is how you can connect on the album that
to fans all over the world with a _________________________________ 25 YEARS we think you’ll like
click of your finger. Last week we is ‘Give It All You’ve
were listened to in 30 different “Congratulations! Got’. It includes
countries.” lyrics such as
Honestly, without pub-
‘Don’t waste your
eth is obviously a big fan lications like your- time on people
Bof music and loves the selves, smaller bands who are gonna try
feeling she gets from it. The female and bring you
rocker, who is also inspired by cur- like us wouldn’t have a down’ and ‘Be who
rent acts like Halestorm and The platform, so thank you you want and it will
Darkness, says, “Whether it’s set you free’. Beth
watching a concert or playing one for all your hard work. thinks this is the
myself I always absolutely get lost Make sure you have a most inspiring song
in the music. For that hour, I get to on the album. This is
experience an escapism that’s un- few Jack and Cokes another that Beth
like anything else. Whether it’s and cheers to another said she wrote in
screaming your heart out to your about ten minutes – al-
favourite song or getting lost in a 100 issues!” - Beth though this one came
groove you can forget about your Blade from a dream she’d had.
worries and be a part of a mo- Regarding the subject
ment.” matter, she says, “I think
She had her own worries that sometimes people forget that
she needed to forget when going in to record the album. Luckily, working we are only here for a finite amount of time
on the album brought some light relief. “After a tough time with a changing and they live their lives doing what they think they
line-up recording this album was very much the light,” she says. “It pro- should rather than what they want. If there’s some-
vided me with a huge creative outlet at a time where I was a little lost. Get- thing you are passionate about you should go out and
ting in the studio with Sam, Luke and Nick, our producer, was just so much get it and not let anyone stand in your way. Especially the
fun and allowed us to forget the real world for a little bit and focus on our people who tell you you aren’t good enough and can’t do it;

BETH BLADE & THE BEAUTIFUL DISASTERS