During a recent tour of the U.S., Canadian musician Heath Cullen visited Sun Studios in Memphis, where he reports that there is still an X marked in gaffers tape on the floor where Elvis stood when he recorded his vocals. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your [...]
Valleygirl TV host Jessica Draper suggested that Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban might be able to control himself courtside with a little duct tape, and then proceeded to duct tape him to his chair to demonstrate. You can see the “taping” of the interview by clicking here (2:40 mark) Tapenews.com is your source for “all [...]
Gaffers tape comes through, yet again. Gaffers tape is again given the credit for avoiding a “wardrobe malfunction”, this time saving songstress Christina Aguilera form an embarassement during her performance on NBC’s The Voice”. Apparently there was a lot more to hold the audience’s attention than just her duet with contestant Chris Mann. You can [...]
It has long been a wardrobe person’s inside secret that strategic use of gaffers tape could prevent a celebrity from showing more than they attended. Oscar, Grammy and Emmy appearances have all been supported over the years by the fashion fix all. Lady Gaga, in a recent Twitter photo run by the British web site [...]
Chuck and David Williams of Jackson, TN have broken the world record for duct taping someone to the wall. Chuck taped his son David to the wall in 32 seconds, shaving almost 10 seconds off of the old record. In order for the record to stand, someone must remain suspended off the floor for a [...]
Mississippi high school students built a duct tape boat as part of a fund raising effort for threir friend Tyler Youngblood, who is battling leukemia. They launched their duct tape canoe in the Biloxi Small Craft Harbor in order to raise awareness and money. Unfortunately, after they rescue their friend, the boat builders may need [...]
The London Olympics are four months away, but gaffers tape has already won a medal. Sara Edworthy, venue coordinator for this years Olympics, spends her days looking for loose door knobs, drooping signs and thousand of other problems that might prevent smooth operations when the games begin. Once the games get started, she will head [...]
Florida technical college student Patrick Varnadore rose to the challenge of his classmates by covering his 1986 Chrysler with duct tape. He’s about 60 percent finished with covering the car with orange tape and is working on recreating the look of the car from the Dukes of Hazard television show completely with tape. Varnadore’s feat [...]
The success of the most recent Van Halen tour has meant that lots of stories have resurfaced about the best and worst of the band’s journey through the rock touring universe. Some of the most interesting tales involve the times prior to their 2004 reunion tour when Sammy Hagar described bandmate Eddie Van Halen’s shoddy [...]
British chef Oliver Frankham says that he briefly considered using gaffers tape to bind the meat when preparing a pigs head to be cooked, before opting to use string instead. It’s hard to know if the the synthetic rubber in gaffers tape adhesive might have improved the taste. Here’s his procedure if you want to [...]
