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When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, Are you having a good time? what they're really saying is, I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?
Alexis Taylor
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Alexis Taylor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 20
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Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.
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That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.
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To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.
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I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.
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I've always found it interesting when I'm the person in the audience feeling mismatched by what I've seen or heard. The shows I've taken the most from I may have not liked while I was there listening to it but, maybe an hour later, there's suddenly a lightening bolt out of the blue: Oh, I'd see them again.
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We're still making Hot Chip records whilst doing these other things, so why not just try and make music you enjoy making rather than being tied down by things? It would just be crazy to not allow people to make music.
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If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.
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It's an example of when three people think something's brilliant and one thinks it's terrible. I suppose that's what improvising can be like because you just don't really know how anyone's feeling about it. You come off stage like, Was that good?
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