Waddup, it’s The Shock Circuit - Sonia and
Joakim. You’ll never guess who we’re with.
It’s Alan Walker!
Do you remember the very first gig in the
history of Alan Walker?
Yeah, it was in my hometown. Like that was before
I signed with a management. Like that was
before any official gig. That time I put together
like a premixed show ‘cos I had no idea
what I was doing. I was super nervous.
Who turned up though?
It was supposed to be like a couple hundred
(of) students. But… like no one showed up.
Uh, but it was a good experience for a starter
but it made me reconsider everything.
Have you ever been to a gig where they’re
like go you’re not even 20 or 21 yet?
Well, I’ve been to United States. I started
touring when I was 17, 18 years old. And if
you play at a casino, they let you in when
the intro starts and kick you out when the
show is over.
In Singapore the legal age is 18 in most places,
so you’re good. You’ve been good for awhile
now.
You seem like you have a pretty close relationship
with your family and your friends. Do they
play a huge role in inspiring you in your
music? Especially your dad? I read them somewhere.
Absolutely. And my dad, he’s probably the
person that is the most up to date with everything
I'm doing in my life.
Whether I want him to know - somehow he always
manages to find out.
He stalks you on social media?
He stalks a lot but in a good way.
You seem quite fascinated with the post apocalyptic
world especially in your latest works. Why
is that so?
Well, it’s not because necessarily of anything
political or anything but maybe trying to
get a perception of how we can maybe look
forward to how the future could actually go.
So far, it doesn’t look too bright as well.
Because well, you never know.
Yeah.
Me and the Walkers, we want to kind of rebuild the
world and create the Walker universe.
I like how you mentioned Walkers because in
the music video for Alone, we loads of people
who are following the Alan Walker Walker movement - How is an Alan Walker movement made like that
for Alone?
That took a lot of time it’s because we went to many different counties to record. All Alan
songs have a storyline. In the next one, you’ll
see similarities from Faded to the next one.
Speaking of Alone, I mean, you’re always
surrounded by people - what are three things
you wish you could do alone?
Uh…
You can tell us, you can be honest.
It’s pretty difficult to like…
HAHAHA
Probably I would say the cellphone. I would
say I would actually like to kind of
Be alone without the cellphone
Yeah
Get rid of it…
Eat alone.
And the last thing you would do alone?
Uhhh…
Sleep alone. Okay!
It remains a mystery but the one thing I enjoyed
you said you like to include your friends
and followers in like collaborations.
The latest video for Dark Side where everybody
sent in their videos to  actually be part of
a compilation… How long did you spend watching
every single video before putting it up on
YouTube? The finished product.
It takes a lot of time to look through every
cover because every cover of Dark Side would
be approximately 3 minutes long. I think no
matter how grainy the quality is, it is always
cool to have a lower quality to show people
that I’m including them.
Now you know, in this day and age, we
kind of have a lot of talk and conversation about equality
and representation and all that. And your mask actually
has bit of a symbol. You wanna tell us a little
bit more about that?
Well the mask is more to symbolise unity and
that everyone can be a Walker no matter who
you are or what you’ve done and wherever
you came from.
Given how he is so good with all these sounds
and stuff right...
Yes, yes.
I’m quite worried because we’re gonna
play a round of 987 Secret Sound with Alan
Walker. If he gets the answer right, we’re
gonna give Alan Walker $20,000!
So what you have to do is identify a mystery
sound.
If you’re ready, here we go. Listen
to it.
I would guess it’s like someone that’s
y’know. Like a brush. It sounds like you
just hit it on the ground.
Dush dush! Dush dush!
That's a no? Oh man! Alan, you did not sweep us away with that answer.
I’m so sorry, it was incorrect.
Not that he needs the $20,000 anyway.
That’s true, that is very true.
We wanna say a big thank you to Alan
Walker for his time. Thank you so much, Sir. We appreciate it!
