![]() It’s up to us…if we want to play, we’ll play. And no matter how hard you try, you do take it for granted. The last week of shows, I think the focus has just been about the sheer joy of returning and just being so grateful. Isolation I think impacted everyone in really difficult ways, but to come out of that and now be able to sing and perform… It’s just been amazing. ![]() But, it’s just such a strange thing to feel something in the world that is haunting and impacting most people really negatively and to be in a place where it was awful to feel caged and to not have income and feel like you cant do what you want to do. A lot of us have friends that lost family members, and I’m grateful I didn’t lose anyone in my family. I think the majority of us were in a position where in the pandemic, there was still a way for us to find a silver lining for our families and most of us have-we’re just so privileged to be in a place where the pandemic didn’t mean that we were evicted. So kind of the best of the old and the best of the new and a really fun freedom to go where we want to go.Īfter such a long hiatus, how does it feel to get back to performing, especially with ‘Break Our Fall’ which hasn’t been freshly heard live? So, we’ve got three or four songs from that record, ‘Break Our Fall,’ which we’re working in to the mix and really enjoying. ![]() We released a record a year and a half ago that feels like it just came out because we haven’t been able to tour it. The OAR guys dropped a new album called ‘Arcade’, so I know that they’ve got a whole body of new work that they’re excited to bring in. And we’re all collectively reaching forward. I think OAR, Dispatch and G Love-this is a tour where we’re not at all afraid to be completely nostalgic, because this is the time to do that. What can audience members expect from the show song-wise? We’re having a great time now playing and moving forward and having the same level of experience. We’ve been together a week now and we’re just starting to open up all of the hilarious memories of our roots. And obviously, scheduled it, canceled it, scheduled it and canceled it… And now, we’re finally playing together. And then they went in their direction for years, we went in our direction for years and I think 4 or 5 years ago we came up with doing a co-bill. It was so fun to remember all of these bands that were peers, and kind of like sibling bands that we were all playing with. John Mayer came out of that, Dave Matthews was a little bit in it, Jack Johnson, Strangefolk, Acoutsic Junction, Virginia Coalition, Agents of Good Roots… A couple of nights ago, we were reminiscing about all of the bands and the Aware Compilation back in the day. We were both trying to hit our strides to figure out who we were. We all got our start collectively in the mid to late ’90s, just trying to figure out what was our genre and where did we fit? I think both bands had an appreciation for acoustic folk music and harmonies, but also loved harder-hitting rock bands. To chat more about what to expect from their tour and what continues to fuel Dispatch, Brad Corrigan sat down with Metro.ĭispatch is co-headlining with O.A.R.
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