To get to a place where I felt confident enough about going in that direction. I think Days of Thunder was just us kind of doing our thing and I think I spent about a year on that EP just to figure out what the sound was and really dial it in. This album Heroes was a journey more than any of the other albums. Tim: 'That's amazing, thank you for saying that. But what happens at the start of a writing process with you guys – do you have that vision of where you want to go? It's hopeful, and that feels quite refreshing right now. On that note, Heroes seems very open-hearted. I think we need that more now more than ever during these tumultuous times.' 'It is a world you can almost disappear into, it's almost an escapism in itself. And it's so beautiful and wonderful to hear people like yourself picking up on that, and responding to that. 'That was when we started having fun connecting things. Then when we got to Monsters we realised we were creating this little world and laying little easter eggs and things that call back to other songs. But I think with Kids that's when the idea of an extended universe started taking shape. I don't think anyone has when they start a creative endeavour. I guess we didn't we didn't constantly consciously set out to do that with the first album Days Of Thunder – our EP, album, whatever you want to call it – in 2014, we didn't have this whole game plan. It proves that good songs will reach people, but there's this whole aesthetic with The Midnight too – it's a world you've created, and that must attract people? You sold out the Brixton Academy with no real mainstream media support. It is a world you can almost disappear into Tim McEwan And this is definitely kind of a transition stage for us.' It's taken a few years to kind of really figure out what the live show looks like in a compelling way that its fun for the audience and fun for us. It was three and a half years between putting out our first EP and playing our first show and our first real tour wasn't until six years after Tim and I met. It was only because it found a fanbase and a community, that was very vocal about demanding more music, that that we we kind of kept the ball rolling and continued the project. But yes, as The Midnight it only started as kind of a creative exercise. So playing live shows was always a part of my DNA. I'd toured around the US by myself doing Americana singer-songwriter stuff. Tyler: 'I met Tim, as a singer-songwriter, in 2012. There's a sense this is only the beginning of the bigger shows you could play, but when you first started as a duo did you even have live shows in mind? Was that part of the ambition? It was three and a half years between putting out our first EP and playing our first show and our first real tour wasn't until six years after Tim and I met Tyler Lyle 'It was incredibly rewarding and fun and energetic and all the things that we hoped it would be. And it's fun, and I feel like it's taken me these three-ish years of touring to kind of be able to hold that kind of space. You're trying to lift this massive room up a few feet off the ground. You're not doing an underground rock show.

You're not doing an intimate performance. And as that grows, the vibe totally changes. Tyler: 'I'd say after around 1,500 people, you you stop seeing individuals and you start seeing pockets of people.

So we're privileged to be kind of recognised by the people that really care and love what we do. But wherever I go in my daily life no one cares. When I walked down the alleyway to go into the backstage area with my parents and people are saying, 'Hey, Tim!' and I'm like, how do these people know me!? It's still very surreal because we're sort of very micro-famous in a tiny room. And it was like a snake eating its own tail. And then we came back and I just saw the line, literally around the block. My parents flew over from Denmark for that show and I went out to dinner with them before. I live in LA now but I grew up in Denmark, and I lived in London for four years too. 'Then Brixton falling on the 150th show was kind of a weird little moment. So we were pretty hyped about that then – and we were finishing out the Monsters album. And we were almost sold out basically – a couple of 100 people from selling out fully. And that was the biggest show ever that we'd played at the time I think that place holds 2,800 or something like that. We played the Roundhouse back in 2019 and that was our 100th show, which was kind of like, wow, the 100th show. Actually, I think it coincided exactly with our 150th show, if I'm not mistaken. How much of a landmark did that Brixton Academy show feel? It'll never stop being surreal Tim McEwan

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