“Touring is the only job in the world, I think, where you are a professional and you drink,” James Vincent McMorrow muses from a phone somewhere in Dublin. “If you were an accountant or even if you were an actor and you drank at the levels that some touring bands do, you wouldn’t be able to function.” Keep reading on Concrete Playground.
“Something takes over once I’m on stage. The whole point of it, for me, is to transcend my conscious brain; which is sometimes not the most pleasant place to be … There’s nothing more in the moment than being on stage. Things can fail. The stakes are high. I mean, the stakes aren’t high like cancer high, but it is do or die. You’re reacting to how the crowd is feeling and that kind of energy I find very effervescent and fun. I thrive off it.” Keep reading on Concrete Playground.
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