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I don’t imagine needing to say things like that anymore. I broke character and became a frustrated human. “Saying things that weren’t necessarily artistic or beautiful, but exactly what I wanted to say and exactly what I was feeling. “I describe ‘Lane Boy’ as the moment where I broke character,” Joseph says. It’s about shaking off other people’s expectations (and demands) about where the duo’s place is in the business, possibly the greater scheme of where they fit in today’s music culture, period. Although he wouldn’t publicly use this vernacular, the reggae/jungle/dubstep amalgam “Lane Boy” is the duo’s fuck-you song. While Blurryface did maintain Joseph’s concerns about real life and the world at large, the album does have a big push-back moment. But to make it a flagship of what we’re trying to do doesn’t make sense.'

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Fortunately, we had enough people who understood what we were about and said, ‘The song is good, but it’s not the full experience.’” 'This was a song that I wrote in a parking lot out of love and it made sense on a record.

All that stuff-Mumford, Lumineers, Of Monsters And Men-was hitting hard back then. But to make it a flagship of what we’re trying to do doesn’t make sense.

This was a song that I wrote in a parking lot out of love and it made sense on a record. That was the song all the labels said, ‘That’s the hit, let’s do this.’ That was one of the most frustrating parts of our journey. There was that moment where it looked like ‘House Of Gold’ was going to be the single that was going to represent who we are. “I wanted to make sure I didn’t overcompensate for that when writing Blurryface. “After the success of Vessel, there was an awareness of how the industry worked,” remembers Joseph. More than one industry wag only focused on that song, because the biz thought they were seeing (wait for it) the next Mumford And Sons. Consider “House Of Gold,” the track from 2013’s Vessel, best described as Joseph’s take on Americana, a ukulele-driven track written as a loving tribute to his mother. Talking to Joseph, most of the “experts” were completely off the mark. In the days when Joseph and his drummer/musical foil Josh Dun were trying to get potential labels to sign them, all kinds of industry types had opinions about the duo’s electronic, keyboard-driven pop. They were painted into a situation where they were going to get shelved or a plug was going to get pulled, by people in control who think they know. That’s where we’ve seen it the most, honestly.” When it is suggested those artists drank the Kool-Aid, Joseph adjusts the metaphor, replacing “drank” with “served.” “They weren’t given a choice. I’ve been on tour with them for months, that’s something they would not do. Then they release a new song, and I’m like, ‘That’s not them.

People who are great people, amazing musicians. “The time we were opened to that world is when we talk to other bands. But that was before the Twenty One Pilots frontman learned how twisted some of the machinations behind radio are. Joel Gregg, Mumford’s monitor man, will use a DiGiCo SD10 console, with Shure PSM900 IEM systems and d&b M2 wedge monitors.Once there was a time where Tyler Joseph was fascinated by what it took to get one of his songs on the radio. The tour, which starts with some warm up theatre shows, will carry MLA Compact, with MLA servicing the arena dates. Committed to analogue control, Pollard will use an Midas XL4 with a raft of outboard classics. “We showed him around the equipment and he listened to the incredible coverage MLA delivers without the need for the delay hangs that are usually necessary for The O2,” Timmins said. The two finally came together at The 02 in London when the Killers were in the venue. “But because of the band’s hectic schedule in Australasia and North America, we had a problem simply getting him in front of it.” ”We knew that once Chris got to hear the system he would go for it,” Capital’s general manager, Paul Timmins, said. Mumford and Sons FOH engineer Chris Pollard has opted for Capital Sound’s new Martin Audio MLA system on the band’s first UK arena tour in December

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