❤I really appreciate you taking the time to watch interviews, getting to know Ren as the person he is beyond the music allows you to see what a beautiful and genuine man he is. He’s still living in Canada, and has said he’ll probably be there until March. He’s 33 btw😉
He has been living in Canada all this year. This interview was in UK when he wrnt back for 2 and a half weeks to film MG3 and donate to RNLI lifeboat service who searched for Joe . Ren is 33. When he first got back into life he rocked out pretty wild, though he quit drinking when Joe died. He was flat mates with Romain for 6 years and they got kicked out of 4 flats due to wild parties. Think he felt that inexperience. I ordered that Live Jenny and Screech 360⁰ video.
REN is the closest thing I have to religion! He has made my days so much brighter whether through laughing or the catharsis of deep thought or tears. And the renegades are an amazing bunch of people! He has a fantastic interview with Zach Sang, it is a long one but if you have the patience I think that would be awesome to react to 🖤
He's always interesting in interviews because he talks about his art in a way that never seems pretentious. He's not gatekeeping it, he wants it to be accessible and understood and for people to give his work new life in the way they perceive it. His enthusiasm is infectious.
He talks a lot about music and his "heros" and inspirations in the interview with Knox Hill and Justin Hawkins. There are also interwies with the charismatic voice, Black Pegasus and I think another reactor lady her name is Rosalie I think. All of them are worth watching for sure.!! Keep it up, cheers from Berlin 👍☘️😎
I like how you're watching a lot of Ren's more intimate stuff, before really diving deep into his music catalogue. That's a dope approach. You should def check out the other few interviews he's done so far (Black Pegasus, Knox Hill, Justin Hawkings, etc..), as in each one one they talk about completely different topics (Even if off camera, in your own time). In fact I don't think any of them touch on the same subjects at all. They offer a really great insight into many diverse aspects of Ren, his music and his creative approach(es). Really enjoyed watching this, bruv. As usual, thx, man 👍🏻
❤ his interview with knox hill ( the first one , his second one is more a out the sick boi album) was very personal and Iinteresting and the black pegasus interview was fantastic as well very fun
Well from what I understand, Ren did not have any lifestyle during the hight of his sickness. He only could stay in bed... He describes it detailed in the interview with Zach Sang show...
I'm gonna use Lighter shade of crap too haha. All of my days are bad physically, but at timed I can do some yard work. And I am thankful that I can walk. Most people with spina bifida(2 of my vertibreas in a C shape) can't walk. I do a little at a time when I can. Good reaction.
Glasonbury is the biggest outdoor music festival in the World! Anybody who's anyone in the music industry has played there. It's been going since 1970 and is a mainstay of British cultural life. It's covered extensively on the BBC and is watched all over the World. There's also a lot more than music going on. It's an explosion of the arts, particularly the performing arts. It has a very alternative and inclusive vibe. It lasts for 5 days.
He hasn't moved permanently to Canada but the 5 days a week treatments have lasted almost a year and he has several months of intensive treatment to go yet. So he rented a property on the outskirts of Calgary. He'll be returning home when the treatments end, sometime in Spring.
He did a song called Crutch that had to do with someone being in your life as you go through a rough time with your health. He wrote a strong description about the whys and where fores of the song. It's powerful I highly recommend you react to it. I have a feeling you will not be disappointed. I know things about people,,lolz.
Ren is great about recommending artists that really inspire him that we may not be exposed to. Asaf Avidan 900 Days In a Box. Genius musician. Would make a great reaction. Thanks, I enjoy watching!
Ren's biggest inspirations musically tend to be artists that aren't afraid to express themselves freely, when performing. Vocally, Jeff Buckley is his ultimate inspiration but he also loves Nina Simone, Sting, John Lydon and Thom Yorke. His biggest inspirations on guitar are Jimi Hendrix and John Frusciante. He loves a lot of UK drum n bass artists and rappers and I know that he loves Eminem and 50 Cent. He loves a lot of reggae artists too, especially Bob Marley. :)
If you want intimate content, this short video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jaltehH_cNo.html from Ren was released just before Hi Ren dropped, to give a bit of context to the video for people who didn’t know his story. I’ll put his pinned comment below.
Comment pinned by @RenMakesMusic [Jan 2023] “Nina Simone once said that it was an artist’s duty for their work to fearlessly reflect their life circumstances. In 2016 I had a stem cell transplant that saved my life, this video was taken two years before that. After the transplant I decided to force my past into a little box and hide it from myself. I wouldn't ever watch this video back. There has always been a part of me that's terrified that I'll end up back here and lose myself again. That part of me always gets loudest when I'm on my own with my thoughts. When I got better and my music started becoming successful after years of never thinking it would be possible I almost treated it as a reincarnation. I'd barely talk about where I'd come from with friends, but despite my best efforts my past usually found a way to leak into my music. Here I was convinced I was going to die. I was severely underweight, I had severe bone pain every day, I could barley eat food, I suffered extreme fatigue to the point even standing in a shower was excruciating. I ended up in a state of stress induced psychosis; my mind’s only rational explanation for the level of suffering I was enduring was that it was some kind of demonic intervention or that i was part of some twisted experiment or study. This had been my life for years. I'd bounced from doctor to doctor full of hope only to have my heart repeatedly stamped on when my condition only worsened. Cut to present day and PTSD from years of my body torturing itself stopped me from doing work that I think is vital: shedding light on a very under-lit, underfunded, and barely understood area. The plight of the chronically sick. Millions of people all over the world are missing. Trapped inside themselves. Conditions like ME/ CFS, ehlers danlos syndrome, POTS, MCAS, lyme disease, M.S. etc. receive such little funding. To put the lack of funding into perspective, male pattern baldness receives over one thousand times the funding than many of these chronic illnesses do combined. Recent studies found the quality of life of a person with chronic M.E. was significantly worse than someone with HIV or breast cancer. M.E. is currently one of the most underfunded disease at the national institute of health. I was one of the exceptionally few very lucky people to escape before I died after receiving a stem cell transplant and finding a hugely restrictive diet that stopped my autoimmunity flaring to the point where it was disabling, but I still suffer a wide array of symptoms every day. To dive deeper into living up to the words of the late and great Nina Simone, who has for a long time been a great source of inspiration for me, I wanted my next piece of work to fearlessly stare my past in the face despite the trauma of doing so. 'Hi Ren' comes out on the 15th December [20221] at 7pm.”
Bloody hell doesn't know what Glastonbury is. It's a Music festival. Have you heard of Woodstock in America.! In the 60s! NO. Bloody hell. Thousands of people meet up to Listen to Music. No colour bars .No political Party. Just Humanity all Colour all political ideas. It's just about the Music 🎶. The music may have political themes but it's still about the Music .we have festivals all over Britain in the summer. You got to catch a few mate .
![Ren Interview [Reaction]](/img/logo.svg){kind=logo}
