‘Well I wish,’ as Slade should have sung when coming up with an evergreen seasonal hit, ‘it could be Halloween every day.’ For Spencer Charnas, it already is. Nightly, the Ice Nine Kills frontman is the ringmaster of what’s turned from a gig into a hootenanny of horror. You know this, you’ve seen him. His band have done a pair of albums that are a poison pen letter of love and obsession to video nasties and macabre icons (fittingly titled Welcome To Horrorwood) and got the staging to match. And so, this October 31, he is, naturally, going to be… “…not playing a show!” he grins. “For the first time in years we’re not on tour on Halloween. Halloween is like our Christmas, and it’s been a little anticlimactic over the past few years, but this year, I’...
