Dan Rankin (aka Trials)

It gives me shivers still.

In this little park together just going, man, like there's a reason we're all here together right now.

Did this guy really frighten you?

Yes.

Yeah.

It didn't feel like the open arms come home, we'd love to have you invitation.

It didn't seem like I had a choice.

Did you ever sense who that figure was, an ancestor maybe?

Yeah, I think I came to terms with the fact that it could be my great-grandfather who I'm named after.

So my middle name is Hendel, and that's what I based my entire album around.

And it was my way to say, thank you.

You know, when the metaphysical happens or something you can leave up to interpretation, I acknowledge it.

And that's all I can do.

And at this point, your mum felt safe enough to bring you back to Australia with her?

Yeah.

I think that she knew that I was suffering pretty hard in Wales too.

So I developed quite a hard nervous tick at this point, like akin to almost a small seizure type of thing where my body would have this jerking reaction which felt like I would tick a little piece of stress off every once in a while.

So this is what led to me with all these ECG tests and whatnot when I was a child to figure out what's going on with this kid where he's physically manifesting stress now.

And this is after you've had this vision of a traditional man in your bedroom?

Yep.