The Jackets’ Jack Torera Brings Some Classic Frights With Her Song Picks For ‘The Sound Of Halloween’

Boo! It’s Halloween! Throughout October, HollywoodLife is running The Sound Of Halloween, where immoderate of your favourite fiends of music, movies, television, and popular civilization prime songs that should beryllium connected your Halloween 2022 playlist. As we bask the past afloat week earlier Halloween, we’re doubling your joyousness by adding a full-size dainty of TSOH. First up, Jack Torera of Switzerland rockers The Jackets takes implicit the Aux cord to adhd immoderate classical creeps to the playlist.

(Antia Weyermann)

On the verge of celebrating their 15th twelvemonth arsenic a band, The Jackets – Jack (aka Jackie Brutsche, the fearless, androgynous, chaotic unit of rock), Chris Rosale, and Samuel Schmidiger – proceed the champion stone ‘n rotation with their blend of humor, attitude, and unapologetic boldness. Led by Jack, with their trademark oculus makeup, The Jackets are 1 of those bands each your chill friends are listening to (and paying import prices to get their albums up of others successful the U.S.).

The Jackets bring the deadly and the sexy to the stage, but bash they bring the spooky? Though they proudly beryllium beyond the realm of the consecutive world, the radical isn’t inherently creepy. But, arsenic Jack tells HollywoodLife, fearfulness concern often finds them. “Once, I played a Halloween amusement successful France successful a nine with The Jackets,” says Jack. “My guitar got tangled successful a spiderweb decoration connected the stage, truthful my guitar was dressed up arsenic a spiderweb until the extremity of the show.”

(Antia Weyermann)

One volition person to hold to drawback The Jackets again, similar a diligent spider anticipating the fly. The radical conscionable wrapped up a abbreviated circuit of Spain. The radical is moving connected caller music, giving fans anticipation that the follow-up to 2019’s Queen of the Pill is connected its way. Until then, present are Jack’s picks for The Sound of Halloween.

Jack Torera’s Halloween Playlist Picks

The Monsters, “Rock Around The Tombstone”

The Cramps, “I Was A Teenage Werewolf”

Screaming Lord Sutch, “Jack The Ripper”

The Jackets, “Losers Lullaby”

[Editor’s Note: We’re including this opus from The Jackets on the playlist. It should get the ghoulies grooving.” 

HollywoodLife: What is your astir prominent Halloween memory? 

Jack: Once I played a Halloween amusement successful France successful a nine with The Jackets. My guitar got tangled successful a spiderweb decoration connected the stage, truthful my guitar was dressed up arsenic a spiderweb until the extremity of the show.

When idiosyncratic says “Halloween,” what’s the archetypal happening that jumps into your caput from your past?

Partytime!

What bash you deliberation volition beryllium the astir popular Halloween costume this year? 

A zombie Queen [Elizabeth II]?

(Simon Kuhn)

What SHOULD be, successful your mind?

A immense poo and a toilet. A batch of things are going down the toilet this twelvemonth successful the world.

Do you person immoderate peculiar October/Halloween traditions?

Yes, I usually spell to a weekender enactment successful Spain called Funtastic Dracula Carnival. It’s legendary; it’s wild, large bands, and determination is simply a batch of comic dressing and dancing going on. It’s ever sold retired successful minutes!

If fixed a fund and escaped scope to bash whatever, what fearfulness movie would you prima in? You tin remake immoderate movie of the past, oregon you could make your own.   

Ash vs. Evil Dead! I’m definite that it was a batch of amusive making that series.

What’s connected pat for October for you — and the remainder of the year? 

The Jackets [just played] 10 shows successful Spain successful October, and we volition merchandise a azygous and euphony video successful November.