00:03My name's Jupp, I play drums in Elbow, and I'm going to show you around the O2 Arena.
00:07Just showing these guys around. That's Athena. That's the back of Athena's head.
00:13There's tour production. Oh my god, there's Guy Garvey.
00:15Hi.
00:17You alright, mate?
00:18Yeah, I talk like this when I'm walking around the O2.
00:21Sorry, you're where?
00:22The O2.
00:23The arena at the O2?
00:25The O2 Arena.
00:26Wow.
00:27I thought I was playing your drums.
00:28Really?
00:31Get off my drums.
00:32So, yeah, this is the vastly exciting backstage bit.
00:36I want to leave you here because I'm going to lie down.
00:38In a bit.
00:39Bye, Guy.
00:42So, yeah, this sound might be a bit weird.
00:47There she is.
00:49Well, we've got a little spur there, the B stage,
00:54which is for Guy to do his little Bono moment.
00:58And we all go down there for a track called Weather to Fly.
01:03There's a chandelier with a mirror ball inside.
01:07And all this sort of drapery.
01:10And the picture frames are obviously trying to get people more involved.
01:16Make them feel like a theatre.
01:18Even though it's, you know, 20,000 C arena.
01:22Monitors.
01:24All big loads of boxes.
01:26Very exciting.
01:28So, this is the way it will come on.
01:30Come on through that curtain.
01:37There we go on.
01:40It's probably the best seat in the house.
01:43This is what I see.
01:45And that's all full of people.
01:47So, it's quite good, actually.
01:49Between a couple of the tracks, Guy always says,
01:52can you put the house lights up?
01:55So we can actually see who we're playing to.
01:57And again, it's all that sense of being involved in the show.
02:02Not just being played at.
02:05So, yeah.
02:06You know, it's just so vast.
02:11But again, you know, once Guy says, put the house lights up, Kate.
02:14And then we can see.
02:16Just have a bit of a wave and say hello.
02:18In keeping with the theatre.
02:19The theatre vibe.
02:21Which is the, you know, all this drapery.
02:26We sort of thought, wouldn't it be nice to have something big in the middle of the arena.
02:31To sort of, for perspective.
02:34You know, so people are drawn to that.
02:38And less to just looking at one end.
02:41Yeah, just looking at the stage.
02:43So, it's over the B stage, obviously.
02:46But it's sort of, it's like an upside down cake.
02:49So it'll sort of come down.
02:51And then within that, you might be able to see it.
02:53There's a mirror ball underneath.
02:54I'm giving away all our secrets here, by the way.
02:57But the mirror ball will come down.
02:58Obviously, when we play the track mirror ball, it sets off.
03:00And then it goes back up.
03:02This is where Pete sits.
03:06And again, we've got a couple of tracks.
03:10Lippy Kids and The Night Will Always Win.
03:12Which are quite, sort of, very quiet songs.
03:17So we use this little setup here.
03:20Again, to bring the sense of a big stage.
03:24Bring it in.
03:26So we're all sort of stood around here.
03:28And it's great.
03:29It's great for the lives, for the production.
03:32Hello.
03:34So yeah, that's pretty much the sound checking stage.
03:39So yeah, tonight we'll do it for real.
03:42Good to go.
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