“There’s a feeling of control in 21st-century life,” Anderson posits. “This feeling that you’re being shepherded through life. You put your headphones on, it’s connected, disconnected. You get on the train, and it’s ‘see it, say it, sorted’. It’s like you’re this little sheep that’s been ushered into the slaughterhouse.” Live music, he argues, is one antidote. “The performers are allowed to be wild and carefree, and the audiences are allowed to let go. There’s a joy within that, and a sense of defiance.” He was also keen to reflect the knife-edge mood of the times. “I feel that there’s a tension in society,” he says. “It feels like things are at breaking point… and I wanted to reflect that.”
