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NOV-DEC 2022 WE’RE TRYING TO BRING THAT SMALL INT
IMATE ENERGY TO A BIGGER STAGE So I was just listening to Next Time, it adds such a personal element with the inclusion of spoken word. When you were producing it did you produce the melody first or did you record Andy’s vocals? So that’s my brother Andy. He has been writing bits and pieces for the last while. During lockdown, we put some of his words over my music. With this one then I was kind of just looking for an excuse to take Andy to gigs, to bring him on stage and hang out with the lads. He got up at one of the secret parties and it went down really well. We’ve got another one coming out at the end of the month. He wrote it over one of my tracks. Once he had the vocals written I took out the track and then produced another track to go with it. Next Time has gone through about five different versions depending on where we had it in the set. We changed up the production on it each time. Depending on which show you were at you probably heard a different version, you take but other genres inspiration the core of it was still there. What would from, obviously you can hear electro-pop and techno elements. Was that from growing up in Ireland? Were you going to dance clubs? Honestly, I got really into dance music through Spotify. I was really into indie and band-based stuff. All the gigs I was going to were Whelans and Workmans. Then I started listening to dance music at home and fell in love with it. Then I found a new love of clubbing and clubbing culture. I also fell in love with house parties. That was a big one with clubs being closed. The way that music sounds when you’re in a sitting room with your mates and they’re all around you. It feels special because of the places where you generally listen to it. So is that what inspired you to host your secret parties? How does the crowd and atmosphere differ from doing a gig in a venue? Before covid all of the shows were venues, and they were great. I guess the bigger the shows get the further you are from your audience. If you’re playing a big fifteen hundred cap venue you’re physically so far from the crowd. You have a crowd barrier, security, and media pit before you even get to look at an actual person in the crowd. With the type of music we play, it’s so energetic. It’s very reminiscent of, as I said, being in a kitchen with a Bluetooth speaker and your mates. It can feel weird when you’re very far away from the crowd. We were trying to make a massive effort to get back to what it should feel like. parties. I think we’ve done that with the secret They’re usually two hundred people max. Generally, the people who got tickets are people who got them in the first few minutes. They’re people who really want to be there and have probably been to a few. They’re such a good buzz. It’s such a good energy being that close to people. Then again we are playing bigger shows with spaces such as the Olympia and Dolans. We’re trying to bring that same small intimate energy and bring it to a bigger stage. What was one of the standout performances of your career, and what made it so special? Last year we played Whelans. We were supposed to play three nights but with the lockdown the first two nights got shaved off. We did the third night on the day things opened back up. Honestly, there was such mad energy in the room. We also had some great ones abroad. There was one outside Malaga and it was amazing. Just before we went over one of our players got sick so we had to do it as a two-piece. When we went over there were a lot of nerves. We ended up getting bumped up to headlining the stage which was huge with about five or six thousand people. It was really scary but it went amazingly. We both came off crying. It was a really really amazing moment where a hundred things could have gone wrong but they didn’t. What are some of your preparations coming up to your Olympia show? We’re already in rehearsals for it. We have until the end of the week to finalize the set. We have a few shows coming up to the Olympia. Were in Limerick, Sligo, and Berlin. We’re also going to do a few secret parties. Every time you gig you get tighter and feel more comfortable up there. By the time we hit the Olympia, we’re going to be in full swing. I can’t wait for that one! Le Boom play a late night show at The 3Olympia on Friday 2nd of December. Doors: 11.30pm. PAGE 13