WE CAN’T REALLY UNPLUG BECAUSE WE’RE ELECTRONIC

I was so very honored to have been invited to attend the press conference yesterday here in Berlin. What’s there to say? It’s impossible to look at the stage and not miss that extra chair with Fletch. The event would have probably lasted longer if he were around with his witty answers. It’s incredible that they managed to work on the album in such secrecy far better than before. The ideas were already going back and forth between Martin and Dave since the pandemic got us all locked down in 2020. All of the songs and even the grim title had been chosen before Andrew’s passing. Everything suddenly got a new meaning now.

Football jokes aside, after so many press conferences, we know that the band already says upfront what they are going to talk about and what they’re not. The journalists were really rather shy when they had the chance to ask them directly. Even I nearly raised my hand to end the awkward silence. I just didn’t have a question to make that I know that they could answer (and not about geography). In fact, Barbara Cherone, the interviewer, sort of exhausted the questions about the album and the tour that could be made.

The tour kicks off in North America this time with what seems like a warm-up, then heads to Europe for a stadium summer leg. I’m sure more dates will be added.

So many years and Marek Lieberberg still calls Dave GaRRÂN (it’s more like “gone” or “gawn”).