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to prepare for this tour we made sure

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all our gear was in place we had the

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right adapters to actually adapt to the

0:11

power here the voltage is different and

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stuff I had to throw off a bunch of

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t-shirts and pants but I was planning on

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wearing all right because there was no

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place left with all that equipment yeah

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so we prepared for will be prepared for

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six months

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please bye peace to you know get ready

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for the tour and but we still don’t know

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we’re about three days in we don’t know

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what to expect the start has been pretty

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awesome and we can we couldn’t ask for

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more

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more of a mental thing when you’re going

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out to play for a new audience you get

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together and you prepare your set and

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you think of songs you think of your

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music where it’s at I mean it’s a like

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six months in getting your visa done

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yeah that’s part of the reason is rest

1:06

of the documents what you need for what

1:10

you need needed for this thing and I

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think and even planning the gigs around

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this month so all the gigs we have been

1:17

pre-planned and you know that’s how it

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got we had like a back-and-forth calls

1:24

with Jade and Gokul I mean she is back

1:29

in Toronto here I mean so we kept in

1:31

touch and discuss about the gigs and

1:35

everything so I think I think every two

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weeks or so we had like a Skype call

1:40

with him and then we went through

1:42

everything that was being planned that

1:44

was getting cancelled everything that

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was forming for this tour as we went

1:50

along and we had a lot of brainstorming

1:52

sessions of you know what we should do

1:56

when we get here how to go about the

1:59

three or four weeks that we have in

2:01

Toronto and and he just kept feeding us

2:04

more and more information and we kept

2:06

playing again in we wrote it down we had

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Excel sheets the whole thought of

2:12

pre-planning happening before the stores

2:14

I think the basic part for us being a

2:16

guitar player carry extra swing sets and

2:19

okay your spare guitars like they might

2:23

break I think we did a tour back in

2:26

India and we did a South India tour so

2:30

we went to like what four cities four to

2:33

five cities in in a small van and within

2:37

a week and I think the worst part was

2:40

that we took a detour when we had like

2:43

just travel for like 200 kilometers and

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we ended up like traveling like 500 like

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fun when you least expect it somehow but

2:54

when you’re on a tour you know these are

2:56

you know some instances where after a

2:58

long day you know it’s nice to find

3:01

yourself someplace unexpected just

3:03

fun without adventure on the tour so

3:06

it’s my fun without adventure it’s well

3:08

every tour has a certain requirement it

3:10

depends how you’re gonna be traveling

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are you going to be taking flights are

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you gonna be in the back of a van I you

3:15

you know gonna do a mix of the two so

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but most of all like I said before be

3:21

mentally prepared for anything at each

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of the gigs that you’re gonna be playing

3:25

it’s gonna depend on the venue is gonna

3:29

depend on the acoustics of the place

3:30

it’s gonna depend on the crew that is

3:32

working there it’s gonna depend on the

3:33

organizer there’s a lot of variables

3:35

that go into each show see you got to be

3:38

prepared to tackle all of that and also

3:40

expect like yeah things might break down

3:43

you know somebody might not show up on

3:45

time so you’ve got account for all of

3:46

that and you know backtrack and

3:49

reverse-engineer the whole thing and be

3:52

ready be ready and most of all be ready

3:54

with him easily basically stay healthy

3:57

for a month we need to eat food good

4:00

food and keep ourselves was till I come

4:06

here healthy and and I was I was I had

4:09

fallen sick on the flight and like had a

4:12

fever and yeah things don’t go right but

4:15

some time but I think it’s most

4:17

important that you stay healthy and stay

4:20

in shape the fun part for us is like

4:22

going outside our country and you know

4:24

playing to a new audience so it’s really

4:27

interesting because you get to know what

4:29

they feel about our music you know what

4:31

will be their reaction for kind of music

4:33

and so far it’s just been one show and a

4:38

shoot we did at fat lab studios so more

4:42

to come and I think yeah it’s been great

4:44

so far

4:45

who does the marketing for the band guys

4:47

I think for band and for any musician

4:50

the most time spent should be on making

4:53

music and then you know thinking about

4:56

how do you market yourself like you give

4:58

you ideas maybe this will work over here

5:00

or this will work over there but

5:01

basically concentration on music should

5:03

be the top priority yeah and then let

5:06

the management take care more than

5:08

mentors we’ve had friends and fellow

5:11

musicians who have shown us the way you

5:14

know if rather

5:16

you know maybe they’ve tackled something

5:18

before and then told us about it and

5:20

then we’ve been prepared for it and yeah

5:22

we bounce ideas off of our friends of

5:24

fellow musicians mostly and plus every

5:28

everybody I think personally would have

5:30

somebody who’s doesn’t need to be a

5:33

musician you know perhaps looked up to

5:37

different people as musical influences

5:39

but yeah as a band you know they’ve like

5:42

such and say their friends who have

5:43

helped give us like the right ideas and

5:47

right ideas at the right and take some

5:49

tough decisions sometimes bands senior

5:53

bands have been there for a really long

5:54

time and it’s seeing them they have been

5:58

in times where there was no internet and

6:00

everything I don’t know and it would

6:02

chip in with like you know guys why

6:04

don’t you try playing here or why don’t

6:06

you try so it’s like you know more of

6:10

like learning from them is a band called

6:12

Seurat my back from India they told us

6:16

early on how they had delegated work

6:18

amongst themselves like you asked us

6:21

about marketing right now and back in

6:23

2011 we did not know how we would go

6:27

about that so the easiest answer to that

6:30

was given to me by magician who’s the

6:32

bass player for Seurat man and he said

6:34

just divide the work amongst you says

6:37

one guy can handle the social media one

6:39

guy can handle you know probably

6:41

printing of merch and and somebody else

6:43

can do something else and you just

6:45

divide that work and it’ll be a lesser

6:47

burden for each of you but as a whole

6:49

you’ll be able to make this thing move

6:51

smoothly there’s also this band called

6:53

Thumbelina quarter

6:55

I mean they toured Edinburgh last last

6:59

year yeah yeah the festival yeah the

7:03

maybe two years back so so after we go

7:06

out to know that we are going to be

7:07

coming to Canada so just went back to

7:09

them and you know ask few questions

7:10

about Howard thinks they did like 30

7:16

shows in 30 days no I think there’s a 40

7:18

shows yeah and they need to like sell

7:21

their own tickets for the shows and that

7:24

give us this idea that whenever we get

7:26

to go out it’s going to be a different

7:27

scene altogether than what we have in

7:29

India

7:30

the first album was crowdfunded the

7:33

baron album was true through this

7:38

platform called visionary dot in and we

7:42

they sent us whatever they could and it

7:45

helped us get through the production of

7:46

it

7:47

so they are devoted as we don’t as we

7:50

ran a three- campaign and like whatever

7:53

our goals were and like achieving

7:55

money-wise was achieved in three months

7:56

so like you know you should that’s how

7:58

you get to know about your fans how they

8:00

are dedicated and in that thing you

8:02

reward them with ania with an album and

8:04

apart from that they write to us

8:06

frequently and we we’ve recognized a few

8:10

of the ones who are you know ardent

8:12

followers and we write back to them and

8:15

we take critique from them we take you

8:19

know advice we have a great example of a

8:21

fan a person who started as a fan name

8:24

is Goku

8:25

he started as a fan and he was one of

8:27

the person who Corazon

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