In an alternate universe, Marmozets plodded on, knuckled down, and found a way to make it work \u2013 as many bands do. And while that hypothetical timeline has crossed the minds of all four members, it doesn\u2019t look pretty. Becca can only picture a \u201ccar crash\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour baby was a blessing in disguise,\u201d realises Josh. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe were pretty burnt out, even before we got the news,\u201d adds Jack. \u201cNormally you get back from tour and crash, but it was happening while we were on the road. Time to refresh and refocus was definitely needed, for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn’t know how to do anything outside of touring. How do we do taxes? How do we make friendships?\u201d Josh continues. \u201cI have autism, and I hadn’t really figured out how to navigate that with touring. Not to go on a sob story, but we’d been doing shows, non-stop, since we were 14.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having been in the back of vans for a decade, the relentless lifestyle and endless road miles had taken their toll. It was time to consciously remove that constant, leaving Becca, Jack, Josh and Sam with somewhat of a blank slate.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t like someone took it away from us,\u201d Josh points out, when asked if that transition was difficult at first. \u201cIt was our own decision to stop the truck here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was focused on having a kid, and we needed to get a house,\u201d adds Becca, who didn\u2019t have time to reminisce thanks to the pressing responsibilities of parenthood.<\/p>\n
For Sam \u2013 the quietest of the four \u2013 he took his empty diary as a window of opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think about [touring] now and again, but your whole self isn’t just playing music in front of people. You can be much more than that. I didn’t realise how much I loved cooking. I started working in the chippy, I absolutely loved it. People used to [leave] reviews at the place I used to work at, and that was so rewarding,\u201d he reflects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an alternate universe, Marmozets plodded on, knuckled down, and found a way to make it work \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-245635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}