In today’s musical landscape, Electronic Dance Music artists are the new rock stars, but that doesn’t come without its own consequences.
If alcohol is the social lubrication at clubs, bars and festivals, then music is the sticky glue holding the intricate operation together.
Sleep deprivation, a culture that overtly glorifies excess drug and alcohol consumption, and a high-pressured competitive career – music publication Thump called it a lifestyle “held together by fast food, lack of exercise and too much drinking and drug-taking.