Jake Carter on being labelled a ‘carbon copy’ of Nathan

With a hit podcast winning over fans weekly, a forthcoming tour, and an appearance as Prince Charming on the cards for this Christmas, Jake Carter has a lot of irons in the fire.

Despite his own personal successes however the 26-year-old inevitably finds himself if not in his big brother Nathan’s shadow, constantly compared to him.

So is it hard being labelled as Nathan 2.0 or is he happy to constantly share the limelight with his sibling? Well, yes and yes as it turns out.

Jake admitted that he has been trying to forge his own identity with his music instead of just being viewed as a ‘carbon copy’ but acknowledges that it will likely always be something he has to struggle with.

That said, he’s adamant that he doesn’t think that being compared to Nathan has held him back in his career but rather it’s an advantage and something he’s well accustomed to at this stage.

‘I always grew up with that, do you know what I mean?,’ he told EVOKE.

‘I came to Ireland and Nathan was a very well known singer and was selling out the 3Arena and massive gigs so that was always going to be there do you know what I mean? That’s why I probably why I try to with my own music try to stick to what I do and not just be a carbon copy of what Nathan does.’

Jake went on to explain: ‘With the music… I guess 95 per cent of the stuff has been written by myself and it’s all original music and it’s completely different to what Nathan’s done.’

Addressing the well worn comparison between them, he said: ‘I don’t ever see it as a hindrance, do you know what I mean?’

‘I’m kind of well used to it now, I think people have started to realise what I do myself as opposed to just being Nathan’s brother which is nice to see that change [but] I think that will always be around and I see it as a huge advantage.’

Currently the brothers are lighting up the airways with their podcast The Carter Couch and it’s the brotherly banter and getting to show off their off-stage personas that he feels might be a reason why the podcast is proving to be hit.

‘We did a little practice run one day in the house, just to kind of see if, if it would actually be funny to other people cause you never get, in families, you know, you have your own kind of in jokes and we might find each other funny, so we were like, you know what, we must, we must actually do like a pilot episode and record it and play it for some people,’ he said.

So we did, we sat down for half an hour in Dublin in mine and Karen’s apartment and just talked absolute s***e for half an hour.’

‘It is what it says on the tin whereas me and Nathan when we’re on stage I guess people don’t really get to know you in person, I think that’s the beauty of us as well, it kind of unlocks that door of without sounding cliché, the façade of the backstage of exactly what we’re like as opposed to what we’re like on stage.’

‘So I think that’s kind of the beauty of it as well. it’s kind of showing the real characters behind the TV screen or behind the microphone,’ Jake told EVOKE.