Ten Tour Tips from John Dwyer of OSEES
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As far as playing live and touring goes, Dwyer’s decades of experience automatically qualify him to give advice. I almost have to tell him this directly, since he reflexively doubts his own authority—“Who the fuck am I to talk?”—and immediately checks his established act privilege: nightly hotels, a comfortable sprinter van, a merch person. Eventually he doubles back, reassuring us both that he can give advice since the comparative luxury Osees now enjoy was earned over years of touring. “I have been there, sleeping on the floor and waking up with cat litter stuck to my face,” he muses. “So I can speak.”