HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN
After a hiatus, beloved ’10s heroes Superheaven have returned as rock’s hot new thing. Whatever that means.
In 2022, Superheaven played one of their first shows in years. It didn’t go how they expected. Surprisingly, this was a good thing. It was the Outbreak Festival in Manchester, which is nominally a post-hardcore kind of thing, but Superheaven aren’t really hardcore. There’s a lot of things they’re not, really. But they went over better than co-frontman and guitarist Jake Clarke could ever have imagined.
“That was, at the time, the largest audience we’d ever played to,” he says, still sounding a bit awed. “And then seeing the crowd reaction...kids are moving around, they’re singing along. That whole time we’re trying to figure out how big the band was,” he says, adding that before the show, “It was just me and bassist Joe Kane, slinging merch, selling it to kids. And then we turn around, we’re sold out of merch before we can play in, like, an hour.”