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Jeremy and Taylor from Paramore talk us through their "crazy and insane" journey from starting the band in Nashville to playing the O2 Arena in London. They also give us a tour of the venue before the show.
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00:02Hi everyone I'm Jeremy and I'm Taylor and we're from the band Paramore. You might
00:07be wondering where we are. Taylor where are we? We're in the hallway, which you
00:10guys might call a corridor, in the backstage of the O2 Arena for our second
00:15show. The O2 Arena in London. That one? The O2. The only one.
00:28It's our second show here and we're so excited about it and yeah it's it's
00:34ridiculous it's like the biggest shows we've ever played in our lives and it
00:38really doesn't make sense how we got here I think just we're super lucky and
00:42have the best fans in the world that always support us no matter what so
00:45we're just incredibly thankful to have good fans. This year has been incredible
00:50for us everywhere but particularly the UK is always amazing you know last year
00:56the end of last year we kind of did some we did a few arenas which was the
01:00craziest thing we've ever done we weren't even like ready for it like our
01:03production was like for really like smaller venues and you know so we kind
01:08of worked our way up and we like co-headline not co-headline we look right
01:12before Blink at Reading which was crazy I mean that was really maybe one of the
01:17most surreal moments of our band's career I've never seen that many people
01:20ever watching us and yeah and then we found out that we were playing the O2 and
01:26it sold out and then we're playing another show at the O2 which is almost sold out and
01:33yeah it literally makes no sense but we're so thankful I mean can you can you just look at this
01:38this is ridiculous
01:52this place is huge
01:55we've changed a ton as a band I mean we're we're all still really young and so it's
02:00at this point we're changing every hour every day you know every week so you know from even
02:06when we wrote this record we're a completely different band you know and I think we still
02:10have the same heart in it all but the way that we communicate and the way that we play and
02:15everything
02:15is always changing for better and for worse but that's just kind of part of the marriage of being
02:21in a band but yeah I mean I just I think we're just so grateful that we've been able to
02:26make it this
02:26far you know and as you can hear and like you know in the lyrics of the last album like
02:31we went through
02:32a really tough time and so we've been spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to get
02:37through
02:38that and to mend and communicate and so yeah it's been a lot of changes with that and just figuring
02:44out
02:44how we work together and just how to make it work so trying our best I mean we just started
02:50a band
02:51we're in Nashville a bunch of kids and started a band and really because in Nashville that's what
02:56you do everybody plays music and we just started playing music and touring and touring and touring
03:01and touring touring and it pays off because this is I mean I can't tell you what it feels like
03:07to
03:07have just like one or even just ten people singing all your lyrics and stuff having like a passion for
03:14your music and then to think you know five thousand six thousand now sixteen thousand or two nights uh
03:20it's just crazy it's insane and we're so excited about it and um are very anxious to get back up
03:28on
03:28stage and have that connection with the fans against them this is our last tour for the year our last
03:34proper tour ending it on an incredibly high note um pretty much our best fans in the entire world are
03:40here
03:41so like an amazing note and then uh we've got a couple we've got a couple radio shows in the
03:45states
03:46um yeah and then it's just christmas time with our families and relaxing and enjoying the new years
03:51for the show I mean I think we probably all think about something different um I am a perfectionist that
03:57is very imperfect so I'm constantly worried about playing right it's really important to us to perform
04:02well you know this is our art and we want we want to communicate that how it's supposed to be
04:07communicated so I just I think I just run through the show and try to get myself amped up and
04:12play
04:13like slash we get dressed in here we get ready for the show in here and you ready for this
04:17here it goes
04:19coming in with the camera real quick coming in with the camera camera hide everything hide everything
04:25this is uh this is the dressing room it's absolutely crazy um as you can see a lot going on
04:33it's time to go
04:34i feel like we're on cribs you know when when they leave and they're like all right time to go
04:38but i'm not going to do that um no but uh we just want to thank all of our fans
04:44for coming out it means
04:45so much to us um all 30 000 of you well maybe some of you guys bought two tickets which
04:51is even crazier
04:52um but thank you for coming out and uh partying with us hopefully tonight is going to be just as
04:57epic as
04:58the last show um and uh we this is the last tour of the year but you know next year
05:04we're going to be
05:04working on some stuff hopefully writing for a new record um hopefully probably getting a tan at the
05:10beach tans are good uh-huh probably barbecuing um and sitting by fires so you got that to look forward
05:18to yeah i don't know so i guess that's all we don't even need you here so we should kick
05:24them out
05:24well we didn't we didn't show my cars yet oh yeah i'll just see the cars okay bye
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