25 Years Of TRIP (TYCH) With JEFF BURROWS From THE TEA PARTY

Interview by Kris Peters
Iconic Canadian rock outfit The Tea Party have been mesmerizing
fans around the world with their innovative music and captivating
live shows for over three decades now.
While their musical output has always been in a league of its own,
it is on the live stage that The Tea Party have excelled,
delivering knockout performances every time they grace the stage
and transfixing audiences with their almost laconic approach that
never fails to entertain.
After being absent from these shores since 2019, The Tea Party will
make a welcome return this June for the Trip (tych) 25 Tour,
celebrating 25 years since the release of one of the band's most
recognised and loved albums.
HEAVY sat down with drummer Jeff Burrows recently to talk more
about the tour and an album that will go down in rock music
history.
We start by asking how much focus Trip (tych) will have for the
shows.
"With this tour, it's not a top to tail album sequenced show," he
explained. "We're gonna play 8 or 9 - including some of the deeper
cuts that we've never played before - mixed with some other B sides
and deeper cuts, and of course some of the hits."
We ask what has changed with The Tea Party since they were here
last five years ago.
"I think… I can honestly say it's an appreciation for where we're
at," he measured, "what we've been afforded, the types of shows
that we get to do. We've been doing this for over thirty years now
and ask me thirty years ago if I thought I'd still be able to
travel abroad and play shows in front of people who love our music
and sing along with us, I never thought that would be possible. I
think more grateful, communicative and the fact that it's easily
the best job - if you have to call it that - in the world. There's
no complaints here. It doesn't even really get harder. It kind of
gets a bit easier, because we don't worry now about… back in the
day we would cross Canada in a van - we've crossed Canada 13 times
in a van before we were even signed - and we didn't know if we were
making it to the next town. Canada's alot like Australia. You're
going from Perth to Adelaide in a van, that's essentially Vancouver
to Calgary in a van, and it's brutal. There's overnight drives
after the show where you're still sweating because there was only
one hotel. There's no showers at these tiny little clubs, so things
get a little bit easier as you get a little bit older. I dunno, I
think we've moved in quite well (laughs)."
In the full interview, Jeff talks more about the upcoming tour,
playing songs from the album they haven't performed live before,
how Trip (tych) has stood the test of time, how significant the
album was in The Tea Party's career, how their sound changed from
their 1991 debut to Trip (tych) and more.


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