Name: Alan Walker: Unmasked (Episode 2)
Uploaded: 2018-03-10T02:24:40.000Z
Duration: 7 min 1 s
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Being a live performer is a completely different craft

Gerund

from sitting in a room or a studio, writing and producing music.

Past simple

I never really had the intention of ending up performing

The music industry was so far away that it was very much a dream,

When I met him, he was basically a kid, mostly sitting in his room gaming,

hanging with his friends, and going to school, just you know,

I wasn't that kind of a person who would go in front of the class

and have a performance or presentation or anything.

I really, really hated to do that kinda stuff.

The explosive success of Faded was quickly followed by the expectations

to what Alan could and should be as a live artist.

And at that point, he had never set his feet on a stage.

In the early days of 2016, just a month after we released Faded,

we realized that the demand for Alan to make his live debut was eminent.

Within the matter of weeks we booked his live debut,

which was an online stream TV performance at the X Games in Oslo, Norway.

You need to understand at this point there was actually nothing in place

So everything had to be done more or less from scratch.

There were so many hours that went into preparations.

So there was a lot of work to be done in a very short period of time.

You know, if people really understood what kind of work, and how much effort,

energy, and resources that are put into visuals, lighting,

how to put together and structure the set, potential guest vocalists,

guest musicians, strings, which we had-- you know, it's a pretty complex

and especially when you do it for the first time.

Making it through that first performance, I guess was in many ways a relief.

But we also quickly realized there was a lot of work to be done

and a lot of improvements that had to be made.

With a full-scale festival tour throughout Europe just eight weeks away,

Does Alan wanna do support on a Rihanna tour?

I was like, "Okay, can't say 'no' to this.

I think every rookie makes mistakes and certainly so did Alan as well.

The big difference though is that most people are fortunate enough

to do that within, you know, their pre-production rehearsals or whatever.

Alan did it on his first show on the first leg of the Rihanna tour

I was unlucky and actually hit the cue button on more of the songs

Okay, that wasn't supposed to happen, but...

Alan in that part of his career that he was, should be doing mistakes.

I hate myself for every mistake that I make,

but I also know that making mistakes and learning from them

then I probably wouldn't have been where I am today.

Once he got warm, he really picked up the pace.

He was basically a frontrunner in a rat race

of more or less 30 festivals in nine weeks.

It feels like that summer pretty much flew by in 15 seconds.

♪ The monster's running wild inside of me ♪

Facing the crowd used to be one of my biggest fears in life.

So to overcome that fear was indeed a magical feeling.

I never really thought that I would learn and grow this much

In early 2017, I flew with him to Miami to catch his show at Ultra,

more or less exactly one year after Alan made his live debut.

And to stand there and watch that 19-year-old engaging, exciting,

well to me that was a true testament in many ways

to the growth and the evolution that he'd been through,

And anyone who's been on the road can tell you that life on tour is exhausting.

It's challenging, it's tiring, and it's not nearly as glamorous

In many ways life on the road is like a loop.

and you don't get a lot of rest when you're traveling.

is basically consisting of a never-ending repetitive loop

of A) you start out jumping on a plane, fly to a new country and a new city,

get to the hotel, check in, get out of the hotel to the backstage,

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Alan Walker: Unmasked (Episode 2)

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