Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor
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Life has overtaken our original plans, and we're hear tonight to talk about the tragedy this weekend. We're here to talk about what happened and to try to prevent it from happening again.
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We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.
fight pressure ready together
It's a big task, but we're ready and we're up for the challenge. We're just going to go out there and have fun. Play together and play strong. We really won't have much pressure on us because we're the underdogs. I think we'll have a lot of fight in us.
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That's incredible, if you think of five people who have all gone off in different directions in their lives and come back together again.
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I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.
initial
You never know how you're going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of the States.
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At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of threw us back to 1983, when we had very similar reactions on a much bigger scale.
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It's a complete collaboration. We just set up our instruments in a room and plug in, much as The Beatles would have done 30 years ago.
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I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
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We're a real democracy. We go through a whole process where everybody is involved in deciding on everything from a drum groove to a guitar sound.
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We knew this season was going to be fun, coming out without any superstars or anything. We knew if we came together as a team and worked hard, we could accomplish a lot.
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We were trying to preserve the distinct character that's there in the region.