If you can recollect, what was it like being at that show and playing for that kind of a festival? You played Boston Calling for us all that time ago in that nice warm weather. I know that this was quite a while ago, but I'd like to take it back to May of this year. That is super fun to play onstage, everything has to be all-hands-on-deck for a lot of numbers because there are so much harmony and production going on for those ones, there's a lot of moving around and playing different things.

H: I think 'Dinner and Diatribes' has been a great one. What has been your most exciting song to perform this tour, speaking of the new songs? Having another album's worth of material to choose from has been great. Then, the songs are kind of a bit more energetic as well too, so there's that. The stage is a bit more elaborately set up. The rooms are a little bit bigger, the production has kind of gone up a little, there's a screen up behind us. This is a larger band by one member, but it feels like there are a lot more people onstage. Hozier: This tour, there's been more of us on stage, which has been really fun. How's it been for you so far, and what's been different this time around than other tours for you? It's a huge tour for you, you've been selling it out left and right.

I wanted to start off asking about this tour. Before kicking off his sold-out, two-night stint at the Wang Theater in Boston on November 12th and 13th, Irish singer-songwriter Hozier (aka Andrew John Hozier-Byrne) spoke with WERS Blog Editor Lily Doolin about a world in crisis that inspired his latest record Wasteland, Baby!, and how there's still hope amidst the chaos.

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