My first-ever date on my first tour, the sound completely cut out. So I had to go on and just shout loudly to the audience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.
My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, 'Thank you, I love you guys,' or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.
The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.
I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.
When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.
I've gotten to go to the Opry a couple of times and stand backstage and watch. But I made it a point not to take a tour or stand in the circle until music took me there. I told myself that was one place I'd never go unless music took me there.
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
I'd never been on tour until I met the Rudimental boys. Never done a live show in front of an audience.