The BBC rockumentary Iron Maiden-Behind the Beast. Disappointed reviewer Kylie O’Brien complained that the documentary was more about the details of how the tour moved from show to show-packing equipment, backstage meals, repairing stage gear, etc. than it was about the glamour and showmanship that Iron Maiden is known for. After watching the crew pack […]
Owen Barrington, a lead dancer in the Riverdance company and a featured performer in the PBS special, Beyond Celtic, literally dances so hard his shoes disintegrate. Owen’s mother, Donna, provided these pictures (click here) of how Owen has to rebuild his shoes with gaffers tape in order to get through his rigorous performance schedule. Tapenews.com […]
We’re always on the lookout for new tape uses, but this one caught us off guard. It appears that singer Katy Perry got more than she wished for when she prayed for larger breasts and ending up using gaffers tape to hide her new assets. She shared her story in Rolling Stone and you can […]
We’ll, not actually blinded. More like blindfolded. Professional skeptic Lawrence Leung, in one part of his new six part series on ABC, rides around Las Vegas with a man who not only is blindfolded, but also has gaffers tape holding coins over his eyes to insure that he really is “blind”. Magician and mentalist Banachek […]
Want to get them talking about you at the health club? Try this to get a tan that definitely won’t go unnoticed. Create a pattern of gaffers tape applied to your skin (tiger stripes work nicely) and then spend a day at the beach. When you remove the tape, the pattern you created will be […]
Seems like Beyonce has turned to gaffers tape to prevent a wardrobe malfunction, ala Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl performance. The London Daily Mail suggests that Beyonce should have used a little more tape to hold her revealing jump suit in place during a recent Paris appearance. Apparently fashionistas have used adhesive-backed tape for years […]
When people ask me what gaffers tape is like, I usually start the description by telling them it is a cotton cloth tape made from a material similar to a pair of khaki pants. Apparently, General Pants, a clothing retailer, thinks that gaffers tape makes a great shirt too! Click here to read more about […]
The master of the “prepared” piano, Hauschka, stuffs a grand piano with ping pong balls and gaffers tape on his most recent album, Foreign Landscapes, to create buzzing percussive sounds. Hauschka is known for taking the work of composer Erik Satie and giving it a twenty first century spin by adding material to a piano […]
The exectutive producer of American Idol was reduced to using gaffers tape to cover Steven Tyler’s mouth after the Aerosmith lead singer dropped the “F Bomb” on live tv while describing the performance of on of the contestants. Nigel Lythgoe, along with a number of other Fox network execs, was forced to run an apology […]
Adam Carolla explains how gaffers tape is used to make product logos disappear in reality tv shows. “On reality shows, to hide any kind of logo (like the Nike swoosh), they just cover it with black gaffer’s tape, and it bugs the crap out of Adam. Adam suggests maybe using CGI to get that out, a […]