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Seye Adelekan

Seye Adelekan

Bassist and singer-songwriter

Jul 26, 2026

20:05
This is going to be amazing.
20:07
I never thought about it for a second.
20:10
I didn't I didn't exercise any caution, but nor did I say or have an active thought.
20:17
Maybe it was a subconscious thing, but I didn't actively go screw it.
20:20
Let me just burn the candle at every end and see what happens next.
20:24
But I said yes to kind of everything.
20:26
If a drug was given to me, I said yes to it first.

23 MINS LATER

43:16
Like, how does the applause feel? How does it feel to be on stage? Do you still get the same level of excitement?
19:15
What was the kind of build-up and the lead-up into
19:16
that? So things got really intense after the – so Gorillaz had toured for kind of two years straight and actually I'd been on tour for a few years before that as well on a few different things and on Damon's solo album as well.
19:31
So I'd kind of been on the road for like from about 2013 till – 2018 things sort of getting progressively worse and worse and worse and worse and finished tour in 20 like october or november 2018 and i just had such a big crash like came back home i didn't have anything in the book for a long time got a chunk of change in my pocket actually actually how did i maybe i didn't even really because one of the things I was doing was just, I was just spending all the money I was making.
20:03
Like I'd make money on tour and I'd spend it all, you know? So I was also like worried about debt and I just like basically went home and just started getting absolutely off my head and just stayed indoors.
20:16
I stayed in my bedroom for the first part of a few months, just not going out.
20:21
I think I spent that Christmas alone.
20:23
I, so I think I said, I told everyone that I was going to be with someone.

25 MINS LATER

45:38
How are you handling that? How are you handling the dopamine crash after a big show like what you do? I

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