my live show is one of the most important parts of me as an artist and the idea that there are people that know me as an artist and don't know me live freaks me out I kind of wish I was known mainly for my show [Music] I want the crowd to feel like they're part of the show we are here together my life is about doing those shows it's so important to me you did it was tour I know you did it I didn't say it's crazy it's kind of sad I was
wondering how you feel about that I I've spoken to a few artists that come to the end of the road and it's it's this kind of completion depression yeah it's like that post-concert depression but post to our depression yeah we put so much into something and then you may not ever do that kind of show again I know that's you've got to evolve right I know I I've been I've been not thinking about it because I don't want to get in
my head about it and freak out but when I do think I had it it's a little bummy yeah it bums me out I mean I feel good about the amount of tour and I'm glad to have like time now when this is like about to be done and everything but I think this is my best show that I've ever put on it's like the best it's the best live version of myself I've ever been like I feel like I'm just I've been better than ever in this tour it's so
cool I can't tell you how much I I'm like proud of this show yeah it's so nuts it's just it's so crazy to think about all the different steps and like stages yeah of it and how all of the touring and the shows that I've done built up to this tour yeah dude we've been oh we're in this year you know like going at it yeah it's funny that we're in the van though because I think about the van no one ever talks about the
importance of the van and I'll tell you why the Vans are really important right because the show doesn't start until you get in the van like it's true that's when your head has to get into show mode right yeah on the way to the venue you pop over to the venue get out of the car we have some some catering do a little warm-up do a little sound check do another little warm-up yeah eat some food eat some more food more food you
know it's crazy though like the pre-show ritual that I have been doing this year and doing these tours is so drastically different than what it used to be how well I used to just not give up I was just a little Carefree kid yeah
why not I mean do you remember Zane yeah of course of course but it was like it was chaos but I also was just like I didn't take myself like seriously so I was like why would I need to have any warm-up at all I don't need to warm
up my body I don't need to warm up my voice I don't need to like wow I don't I don't need to have a ritual I don't need to put makeup on I don't need to do my hair I don't need to wear some specific outfit I just wear what I'm wearing today and like whatever I feel like and I would do those shows just like raw now it's so different I I have like a three hour because he came up there too you're gonna bust it up and cool you
busted up everything mentally exhausted exactly oh my God was I busted as hell but then you had this time to make this album and it's it's hard to talk about this tour and not reflect the two years of quarantine where you were able to kind of fall in love with the idea of touring and playing live almost as a concept again no one gets to do that you get that once when you're a kid imagine it dream it up then it starts and then it just goes
step step step step yeah this time you were able to go back and go okay now I can get almost started again is that how it felt yeah it was wild I mean it was so crazy to have like time to sit back and go like okay okay got it and like you said like life is not like that like life is like okay here next step Next Step next step and especially with this kind of thing my life had not stopped in any sense of the word for four years and then
suddenly stopped and everybody stopped and I was like let me actually think about what I've just experienced I'm gonna do this again yeah how am I gonna do it how am I gonna do it and what just happened let's let's think about what just happened yeah it was like the most self-reflection I've ever done and probably will ever do I think about when you announce this tour and the video that you put up online which was just
you in an auditorium yeah and I was like that's kind of perfect you know it's like just waiting for the doors to open and I hope that anyone even shows up anyone shows up I just was like it's not ever gonna happen again that's it no more touring so it's been so even even more like Monumental that it has happened and it's like we can do this yeah it's back you definitely uh making a connection every night and you're
encouraging others to do that not only with you and with the music but with each other it's a really amazing sort of Continuum that goes through these shows the happier than ever tour which is like be yourself yeah be yourself with each other yeah and be in the moment and try not to let this environment make yourself conscious yeah that's like I I say that every show I have this like whole thing of like the rules are like don't be an don't
be judgy and just have fun just have fun I gotta talk to you about like the last tour the prevailing physical ailment you had was ankle related and how do you get on stage on this tour so I you get shot out of a hydraulic Cannon six feet in a year and land on your feet every night I do Zayn I have been working on my bones and my body for her for the last since then really um and more seriously for the last like
four months I've been like completely changing the way that my life is involving Fitness like I'm a gym rat now like when did that happen I don't know but it did it started with I can't get injured anymore can't do it not not gonna let myself live like that because I lived like that for years it's important for you because it's such a physical show yeah but mentally oh my God tell me about it dude I mean it's changed my life I started working out
really heavy in um may-ish um but then especially coming back from Europe I started like working out at a gym for the first time and every day and I know that's like a pretty like a lot of people do that but like it that was not a thing I did and it's become such an incredibly huge part of my life yeah and I it makes me feel so much better as a person and the way that I can move on stage now I feel like so much better I mean there
are moments when you and Phineas come together and it's just the two of you and you let us into the side of your performance yeah it's very much a side of how you write your songs it's always special but I feel like you really really zero in on that it happens exactly at the middle of the show it's around the 50 minute Mark and it's like all right I love you that's a copyright everyone's gonna want to hear that song
forever but your power that song is like maybe the best thing you've written yep I agree and it just sits in the middle of the show and I and I always get the feeling like people are waiting for it like what's it like watching people react to that song every night that you play at that moment it feels really big especially because that song is so dear to me I feel extremely protective over that song and very like
attached to it that was the first single we put out for happier than ever yeah and I remember in my post in my caption my caption said like please just like listen to it and what always gets me is on the ending of both verses where it gets to how dare you and how could you the crowd they get louder and louder and louder on those lines and they like scream how dare you and that always just like makes me feel like so good and sad because I'm like
um so look at you want a crane it's a big crane I want a little cherry picker you own a cherry picker so people are going to see that on this on this performance on on Apple music and so give us an idea of what that feels like so when we're watching it we're kind of getting it through your eyes honestly like one of my favorite things that I've done oh my God like I get to look down and see the entire floor and get really
close to the end like all of the seats and everybody's sitting honestly the first couple times I did it I remember actually coming off stage and actually saying out loud to somebody like that's too much power I got way too much power and I'm up there like I feel way too good that is to me what the the beauty of this show is is that you're constantly wrestling with that yeah like I have this these songs that mean so
much to people and everyone's paying to come see us perform them but it's like clockwork every three or four songs you like turn the lights on and let me talk to you can we see you right let's let's break this spell I try to make it as intimate as possible well it's just you this is the crazy thing about your show right you've got your band behind you Andrew and Phineas Phineas and with you forever my boys that's your boys but
that's it but they but they play this amazing role of just keeping the music just moving and dynamic and it's powerful but it after that with the exception of you and Phineas and that beautiful delicate moment in the middle of a set it's powerful it's just you I know like it freaks me out sometimes when you bounce up on that stage and I'm like wow it's just dude I know it's a lot of work and it's a lot of pressure I mean but that's what I
wanted this show right now it is so right and even though it's a lot it's like it's like the coolest thing I've ever and it feels really cool to be able to to say that it's just me up there yeah you know and it makes me feel like I kind of in a way did it to like almost prove to myself that I can do it oh it's so funny you say that I was literally gonna say isn't it sort of the antithesis of what you thought you could
do when you were a kid yeah come to life like yeah okay I've proven it now that I've done it now I feel more comfortable in like future of touring and I could play around I I feel like this whole era has kind of opened up all the doors in the corridor yeah all the keys now if you want to open any of them and you can try almost anything at this point I had to go all the way to then come back and and feel freedom yeah and and we will love you
for it because the end of the day like like watching that show now and watching the way everyone's responding they love these new songs like they mean something yeah different because there is a concept to this to this show right yeah to you which is why visuals visuals visuals bro I mean since the first concert I ever saw which was the neighborhood which was completely changed my life and like I'm so glad you
said that dude I have essentially been trying to make my show feel the way that show felt since then I mean it's inspiring it's inspiring right the feeling that I got at the beginning of that show in my chest I can't even explain it my main goal is to have everybody have that feeling at my show a big thing in my inspiration of of what I want the live show to be it was it came from a lot of rap like that was a very large and in the way that I
perform is is incredibly inspired almost almost Purely Inspired by hip-hop and the the rap performance is that I've seen I would just watch these YouTube videos from like rolling loud from these artists that like had the the entire crowd like crazy yeah yes oh up there with his little I do oh my God and it like I know but the whole crowd is like raging there for it and that was my goal that was my goal I want I want the
crowd to have the craziest time ever I want it to be scary that was that's another big thing that I I've always strived for yeah I want everyone to feel safe and comfortable at my show but I want them to be like so spooked let's talk about this concert that people are going to be able to see on Apple Music Live yeah obviously we love you at Apple music and we're super stoked that we get a chance to be part of sharing this experience for your fans
and what you love about this show and what people are going to be able to to to see a lot of people didn't get to and so excited to give that to people you know that the shows that I didn't get to see when I was younger either like couldn't afford them or like just didn't get a chance the idea that I would have been able to go and watch them would have been my absolute dream and my live show to me is one of the most important parts of me
as an artist and the idea that there are people that know me as an artist and don't know me live freaks me out and it's funny I kind of wish I was known mainly for my show in a way performing is the thing that I have wanted to do more than anything else in my life and that's the thing that I I give the most with I feel and like it's just it's so important to me and I want people to have that this show
is really good and this is a a moment in time that's going to go away yeah and it's not going to be this way yeah it's not and like it's gonna end yeah what do we do we started out you're like I'm a bit sad yeah but actually this this will live forever I mean I I want to honestly take my head off to you and your your peers there's a few of you that came out and went out the gate we're going to tour we're going to tour globally we're gonna
try and be as safe as we can and we're going to really see if we can actually hold on to this thing this time I can't lose it again I really can't handle it I don't I don't know what I would do if I lost this honestly and to get deep with you like I truly don't the despair that I had when I couldn't do this show a show I never ever want to feel that way again my life is about doing those shows [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]