♦️ Before the concert, Brian gave a quite funny interview to Austrian music radio station 𝑭𝑴4. I've transcribed it for you.
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🎶 Leni
🎶 Little Mo
🎶 Every You Every Me
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🎶 My Sweet Prince
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📻 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 ?🎸 It's our ping pong table yeah. While we were making Black Market Music, there was a ping pong room next door to the studio and we got obsessed with ping pong. So we decided to buy our own and take it on tour with us. But there's not much space here and we don't really get the chance to do it at festivals, you know. When we play our own gigs, we set it up every day and have a few games you know beforehand just to keep you from getting tired and keep you from getting bored.
📻 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒏 𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘, 𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐 𝒊 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇 ?
🎸 Well you just have to learn and realize and be okay with the fact that festivals by nature are completely chaotic and that nobody really gets a chance to test anything beforehand. So everything by nature is going to be more sloppy. So in a way that places a little less pressure upon you so you learn to let things go a little bit more you know.
📻 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒊 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒙𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 ?
🎸 Yeah, i mean it's far less precise you know. The nature of the context is much different because the audience isn't necessarily 100 yours you know. So there's an extra challenge in that to keep people's attention but also you know the whole situation is different. So you have to have a different attitude, it's a completely different context.
🎸 It's something that's quite fun really you know because you get to hang out with other bands, you get to see people that you haven't seen in a while. Four years ago, we were playing here with Therapy you know, and we're playing here again you know it's kind of funny. So it's more like you know the season of sitting in the grass you know and kind of and just hanging out more and then it's like: "oh right, okay" it's time it's time to go play now.
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🎸 No, not today. I didn't walk out into the fields today, no. Well I guess it must have been in Greece just before we came here yeah.
📻 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝒊 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅.
🎸 Because we worked very very hard on being concentrated and being focused and being very tight. I think people pay good money to come see you you know, and ticket prices keep going up and up you know, so it's like you really have to give them value for money, you really have to deliver you know, otherwise they can walk away feeling ripped off you know. But whatever you do, there's always people who walk away feeling ripped off or you just go on your site the next day and like people just complain and complain and complain you know. Every now and again, you have one or two many drinks before you go on stage and you're a little bit sloppy and then you go on the web the next day, and they go: "Man, he was drunk, man if i saw him i would have kicked his ass man but still they're my favorite bands.". It's like: "Wait a minute". People can be so demanding sometimes you know, we're just human beings.
📻 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕, 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 ?
🎸 Yeah, luckily we don't really suffer from writer's block so when we have the opportunity, we try and write as much as possible on tour. Because if you don't, then you stop being creative for a really long period of time and then you start to feel like a performing monkey, it's important to keep your creative juices flowing and we try and do that. So we've always kind of continually written you know which is a good thing.
📻 𝑺𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌-𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕 ?
🎸 It takes a long time you know to come down off touring you know. It's like if you have two weeks holiday, it just doesn't work you know because it takes you a week or two to come down anyway you know. I think Michael Stipe once told me that after the new adventures in High Five Tour that it took him about four months to come down, you know. So you have a tendency to run around like a chicken with your head cut off or you just hit massive post-tour depression and you just don't know what to do, and you want to throw yourself under a bus you know. Because you feel so useless, because your life isn't organized you know, and you have nothing planned for you the next day you know. You want to call up your tour manager and go like: "Where am I supposed to be ? You know tell me what to do today !". Yeah, it's a weird feeling.
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.
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