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And then when people started pouring into the room,
totally changed the sound it was like being in a sort of anxiety dream you couldn't hear anything all i could hear was like people talking and shuffling so it became like this sort of test of us the band to see if we could play these songs in the dark you know
without the audience could hear it but you guys couldn't on stage yeah it was a monitoring thing and it was nothing to do with no no issue with like the gallery or yeah yeah or the sound engineer but it was just that space no of course it's the reason why venues aren't shaped like a donut yeah with a hole in the middle yeah because all the sound just booms around it which is really cool for like recording something there yeah but to perform that's also like a test of your um your talents in terms of like you've got to get through the gig and you can't hear yourself i've had to do that in the past yeah it's so weird that because you feel so disconnected
And not in a nice way, because disassociation can, you know, you can go off and be somewhere else and come back and feel sort of replenished or calm.
But this was like, yeah, it was tough.
And I do it again, but I just put the monitors by my head.
Pretty well performing near Henry Moore as well.
Playing and looking up and seeing those huge Henry Moore sculptures was something else.
And it's just so cool that he's, you know, a British artist.
You know, I'm not British, I'm not Peruvian, I'm a mix of each, but it makes me proud, makes me feel good.
It's been really cool, and it works as such a palate cleanser.
You can do both things at the same time and work them parallel to each other, and they help each other.
I'm going to quote my good friend, my brother, Matt Olchen, who's my partner in all this.
He says that writing a song is like being a kid and running around in a building, like an empty building.