Everybody was getting actually impatient and sort of cranky, however I used to be simply so excited. I used to be speaking to the individuals on the stay and getting just a little bit anxious, as a result of impulsively I used to be speaking to a number of thousand individuals.
This was when you have been ready?
Yeah. I used to be like, “Hey, they’re nonetheless establishing the stage.” Folks would ask me stuff, and I’d be like, “Oh, I do music,” after which individuals acquired actually indignant with me for doing that. I do not know if they simply wished me to sit down in silence for an hour, however should you’re an up-and-coming artist and you’ve got 20,000 individuals in entrance of you, you are gonna wanna say one thing. So I did. I used to be simply attempting to maintain issues mild, and other people have been like, “Shut up.” “Kill your self.” grown adults.
That is horrible. Might you see the crew establishing the stage when you have been ready?
Sure, we now have nothing else to do however watch them. It seemed actually hectic. The opposite set modifications that they did all through the day have been actually brief, however when Frank’s set was being put collectively, it took a very long time as a result of he wished to have that center display screen constructed, which is sort of a entire operation in and of itself.
As quickly as Björk was completed, it was like lots of of individuals carrying black swarmed the stage and have been attempting to do every little thing they may to get this display screen up. It was simply insane. At first, the individuals within the entrance have been panicking, like, “Is he gonna simply be trapped in there? We cannot see him come out in any respect.” But it surely turned out that there was just a little hole on the backside, so we have been grateful for that.
What was your view like?
I had a very unobstructed view of the stage, so when he stepped out of the little cavern of screens, I might see him completely. For those who weren’t on the very entrance or should you have been extra to the facet, you would not see him till he stepped all the way in which out. I do know individuals have been complaining about the way in which the stage was arrange, as a result of they could not see him quite a lot of the time. I positively perceive that frustration.
Frank’s setup was apparently presupposed to contain an ice rink, but it surely was melted and nixed on the final minute. Did you see any proof of that?
Once I first walked in, in the direction of the very furthest half away from the stage, we noticed an enormous round factor lined up with a black tarp and a number of other black issues on high of it. There have been rumors that folks thought it was a curler rink. I can not verify that they melted something, or that the factor I noticed was the rink, but when there was an ice rink, it might’ve been there in the back of the stage.