Tinie Tempah

And so I was thinking of it as

okay, when I was 16, 17, 18, making my tunes, these were the spaces where I would go and test out my records.

These were the spaces where sometimes I'd do it for free, sometimes I'd do it for a couple of hundred quid, sometimes I'd get booed, sometimes there'd be 12 people there.

Do you know what I mean?

But it gave me the thick skin that I've got now.

It allowed me to accumulate my 10,000 hours.

And if we lose these kind of physical spaces where

you know people of all different races backgrounds ages are allowed to converge and enjoy music and be in this flow state and let loose um granted everything is digital now and so arguably you can still do the same thing and still and arguably get even more reach but how are we gonna be able to um create artists that maintain longevity because what i'm seeing now is artists that you know make a huge splash across social media yeah

and then come with one or two records, but then because they haven't necessarily built like a core fan base or they don't have other experience in other areas of the industry, you know, communicating well, performing well, stage presence, et cetera, dealing with rejection and this and that and that.

It tends to be not all the time, but in my opinion, seven, eight times out of ten, it tends to be short lived.

So I was like, we need to preserve these spaces.

And I kind of want to highlight that in my music.

And so I crafted this kind of dance leaning project where I'm celebrating all the dance genres.

that I've heard from basically when I was a lad to where I'm at now, whether it be, you know, grime, dubstep, tech house, drum and bass, all of those kind of sonics.

And then I've basically sort of conceptualized it where it's like a theme of like a crazy night out.

So, you know, you're getting ready, you're texting your mates, you're working out where you want to go, you get to the first bit, it's a pre-drinks or a meal situation, then you end up at the first thing, it's either a gig or it's a big club night, then you end up at the after party, then you end up somewhere else and then it's, you know, the sun's coming out and you're like, what the hell has happened?

Or not.

And also I think that, you know, over the last couple of years going out and a nighttime kind of culture has started to have like a negative, there's negative connotations around it.

It's like, you know, it's not great for the society.

It's just people having to piss up and leads to all of this other kind of antisocial behavior.