Returning to 6DB Studios in York in February 2023, This House We Built collaborated with producer Dave Boothroyd to deliver a powerful version of the timeless track ‘You’re The Voice‘.

Scott Wardell, the band’s lead vocalist and guitarist, shares his enthusiasm for the project: “I always loved this track growing up, and performing it live at acoustic shows was a hit. With Dave Boothroyd‘s input, we put our own mark on the song, and adding Danny Vaughn‘s vocals took it to the next level.”

The decision to release the track coincided with the support slot for the Tyketto Winter Tour 2023. Wardell notes, “We thought it was the perfect time to share it with the masses, and it’s coming out on November 28th, just before my 50th birthday – a fantastic gift to sing alongside my vocal hero Danny Vaughn.”

Danny Vaughn adds: “First, I was lucky enough to stumble across the band This House We Built, whom I consider to be the U.K.’s best new rock band to come along in a very long time. Through sheer luck and perhaps a little pushing on Scott’s part, we were introduced at one of my acoustic shows. I listened to their debut album, self-penned, self-funded and recorded off of their own backs, with absolute astonishment at the quality of the song writing and the sound production.

Secondly, I had the pleasure of having the band open for me last year on my acoustic tour and I got to see how hard they work, how much care and effort they put into their craft.

And then lastly, they ask me to join them singing on a remake of one of the most anthemic rock songs ever written!! What’s not to love? And I do love this song. I love how they have respectfully recrafted the sound to suit their more modern edge while at the same time, staying true to the power and message of the original. And it couldn’t be more timely, could it? Right now, we are living in a world where we are being told to just keep our heads down because there’s nothing we can do about it, where schoolyard bullies run our governments and big money is trying to control all that is good in the world.
It’s the perfect time to revisit the message of this song. 
You’re the voice, and you are not alone by any means. “We’ve got the power to be powerful”.
And, yeah, you’re gonna love hearing this new version. It kicks ass.”

The band line-up for the recording includes Scott Wardell (Vocals & Lead Guitar), Andy Jackson (Guitar & Vocals), Wayne Downes-White (Bass & Vocals), Lee Oz Ward (Drums & Vocals), and Danny Vaughn (Vocals).

‘You’re The Voice‘ is now available on all digital platforms;
Spotify
Amazon
iTunes

This House We Built is set to open for Tyketto on their Winter Tour, with dates including Nightrain in Bradford, Queens Hall in Nuneaton, Planet Rockstock in Trecco Bay, Yardbirds in Grimsby, The Waterloo in Blackpool, and finishing off for their final gig of the year and Christmas party at Trillians Rock Bar in Newcastle on December 21st to celebrate what has been an incredible rock n’ roll rollercoaster for the band.

Tour Dates:

Tyketto Winter Tour supported by This House We Built

November 28th – Nightrain // Bradford (supporting Tyketto)
November 30th – Queens Hall // Nuneaton (supporting Tyketto)
December 1st – Planet Rockstock // Trecco Bay, South Wales
December 2nd – Yardbirds // Grimsby (supporting Tyketto)
December 3rd – The Waterloo // Blackpool (supporting Tyketto)
December 21st – Trillians Rock Bar // Newcastle

Line-up:

Scott Wardell (Vocals & Lead Guitar)

Andy Jackson (Guitar & Vocals)

Wayne Downes-White (Bass & Vocals)

Chris Mayes (Drums & Vocals)

About This House We Built:

Carrying glowing endorsements and reviews from Dave Ling (Classic Rock) – “Immensely promising quartet playing a confident, summery, sometimes funk-fuelled style that will leave you grinning from ear to ear” and Rob Evans (Powerplay Rock & Metal) – “The best independent album I’ve heard this year”, This House We Built are already on rock solid foundations on which to build a successful career in the music scene.

The real bricks and mortar of the band are a heady mix of bands from England’s Scarborough Strip (think Sunset Strip but with less debauchery, more chips and an untapped resource of talent since five Little Angels flew big in 88’).  Players Scott Wardell (vocals guitar), Andy Jackson (guitars vocals), Oz Ward (drums vocals) and Wayne Dowkes White (bass) finally came together just prior to the world shutting down in 2020.  Rather than dwell on not being able to bring their collective talents to the stage, they started the socially distanced writing sessions that bought the plot for the house they were about to build.  Each man brought a different musical path to the band, and you can hear them all as the album unfolds.  Eclectic influences ranging from classic rock, funk, emo, nu-metal and melodic rock are mixed perfectly across the ten songs and brick by harmony laden brick they build a unique sound that transcends all of the aforementioned genres.

Bassist Dowkes White struts into the house via Classic Rock Road.  Citing influences of Bad Company, Whitesnake, Dio, UFO and Deep Purple his low-slung bass swings and sings in equal measure.  Handed his first bass at fourteen (a 59’ fender jazz), he’s been perfecting that bottom end swagger ever since.

Rhythm section partner Ward drums his way into the house having wandered the paths of rock, punk and nu-metal.   Raised on Sabbath, Zeppelin and Joplin it would be the sight of Phil Collins drumming with the aforementioned Zeppelin that made him pick up the sticks aged eleven.  His progression into 90’s punk came from a life changing discovery on his sisters mix tape (remember them!) when he heard The Offspring for the first time.

Guitarist Jackson picks and strums into the house by way of melodic rock boulevard picking out the American big guns of Bon Jovi and Skid Row as early influences.  Nowadays he’ll solo his way through anything from country to rap.   Originally a drummer at school as it got him out of maths, it would be a chance school jam with a guitarist who wanted to swap instruments that saw him swap two sticks for six strings.  A quick learn of a Quo lick and the sticks were a distant memory.

Vocalist Wardell serenades his way into the house having taken a sharp left off Lyrics Lane.  Creatively driven by musical heroes Sting, King’s X, Little Angels and Tyketto a young Wardell was instructed to buy a bass from the back of Kerrang if he wanted to play in his friends band.  Like all great frontmen though, he ignored the advice, bought a Marlin state of the art series from his local music shop and started to construct his own musical journey.

So, there you have it, the house is a veritable musical mansion and when you add in stellar song writing that is equally at home penning stadium anthems as they are challenging difficult life situations such as depression, alcoholism and Alzheimer’s you start to realise ‘This House We Built’ are not simply here to rent, they are a long-term musical mortgage investment.

What Danny Vaughn says about the band:

Serendipity has a lot to answer for. In this case, I’d like to shake its hand. My first encounter with the band This House We Built happened last year whilst playing an acoustic concert of my own in Whitby. About 3 or 4 songs into the show I couldn’t help but notice that some cheeky person was singing harmonies to all of my songs. And they were good! Afterwards I got to meet the culprit, one Scott Wardell, and he told me about his new band which was put together during the covid lockdown. He said that they had written and recorded an album off of their own backs and then gave me a thumb drive with that album on it.
I promised to give it a listen and get back to him about it. This is never easy. I often get approached by young musicians or new bands asking for my opinions on their work and it can be downright stressful because, well, sometimes it isn’t very good.
So, eventually, I bit the bullet and put on the album, hoping for some bright spots that I could talk about when next we spoke.
But this was good. No, fuck me, this was great!!! As each song unfolded, I kept saying to myself, “Well they can’t keep this up”. But they did. The album does what I love most in all truly classic albums; it takes you on a journey of a variety of emotions and styles.
Geeze, these guys can really write songs. I was taken from jump around the room, fist pumping anthem rockers like ‘Fairweather Friend’ and ‘We Are, We Are’ to having my heart torn out by the emotional beauty and daring of ‘Fly Me Up To The Moon’ and ‘Old Haunts’. Frankly, there’s not a duff song in the bunch. And the production!!!  This sounded as sonically huge and complete as any of the very best classic rock albums. Think Motley’s ‘Dr. Feelgood’ or King’s X’s ‘Dogman’.

I remember that I got so caught up in how much this album was rocking my world that when I was finished, I called my wife into the room and sat her down for a second listen because I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t just me. It wasn’t.
Within moments she had the same “holy shit” expression on her face that I had been wearing for the past 45 minutes or so.
Where in the world did these guys come from?
Yorkshire, as it turns out. And as a bonus to my budding fandom of the band, they are all extremely nice guys who have been around the block at least once and know how to really work hard at their craft. I’m honoured that they will be supporting me on several dates of my upcoming UK tour and I have every confidence that they are going to make a serious impact on the UK rock scene. Bands like this are why we became rock fans in the first place. This is a group that you can get behind and support with all of your heart, because they are tremendous, and they care. So set aside the better part of an hour and make sure to spin the whole album. You’re going to love the journey it takes you on.

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