![]() ![]() So I was so happy - because I've been on the road touring for five, six years - that I got to do It's a Sin that kind of discipline and working on such a big team like that, on a script like that, for a show like that, was such an amazing experience. Whereas, as an actor, you're really inhabiting someone else, even though it's so personal, but you're being someone else and you're usually doing someone else's work and helping their vision or helping the collective vision create something, which is an amazing process too. ![]() And I get to have a lot of control over that. You really get to inhabit all those roles if you want to, and express yourself in a way that to me is just so incredible. Oh, well, when you get to write the song, you're the director, the writer, the star performer. I guess I'm always kind of changing as a songwriter but I still feel like I'm the same Olly, so when I wrote "Shine" however many years ago, I still love that song and feel connected to it in the way that I imagine that the songs on this next album are going to kind of be a comparison to. And I had all these songs I'd made for the last 18 months, and there was this period over the lockdown where I didn't really know what the situation was going to be, whether we would all stay together as a three or whether I would continue by myself, and we just had to really talk about it and really be honest with each other. And so when we made the announcement recently, for us it had been a long time coming. And nothing bad happened, it just kind of happened naturally. And then over the years, we kind of grew apart musically as a band from when we had started. OLLY ALEXANDER: Gosh, honestly, not really because the way I've been making music by myself the last 18 months - and prior to that we had finished the first album, we were making the second album, and we had kind of begun to make music separately, so I was making a lot of the music kind of myself back then. ![]()
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