Hey, how's it going?
Welcome back to another episode of TwoSet Violin.
Today we're gonna have a trip down memory lane,
as we have our very exciting Virtual World Tour coming up.
We were supposed to tour last year and this year, I think,
with the pandemic of course,
this is our best way of reaching it to all of you.
- Of course, we'll...we'll want to do a live tour someday, - Mmm.
but in the meantime, the virtual tour is coming soon.
We're trying to make it uniquely virtual too,
- (Brett) Yes. - like things that in a concert can only be done virtually,
- Yes. - so that's cool. Anyway!
But we decided, "Hey, let's go down memory lane,
and see our first world tour that we did."
Um, because I know a lot of...
...especially more recent YouTube subscribers,
might not have seen us do our Kickstarter on Facebook.
- Yeah. - Back in the day, where we didn't have any money, no funding...
We didn't know how much it cost to legitimately make a big tour happen,
and so we had this crazy goal of...
...50,000 Australian Dollars.
We promised I think, ten cities,
- and to be honest... - $50,000 is not enough.
...it was not enough, um, it was...
...nowhere near enough,
- but we just really wanted to get started, - Yeah.
we didn't care if we went broke halfway through the tour,
we just wanted to do the tour and meet everyone,
explore the world, meet our fans.
We pledged to everyone,
we're going to keep busking on the streets,
and we're gonna sleep on the streets,
until we hit our funding goal.
I don't know what we were thinking,
it's such a crazy thing to do,
- but I feel like...we had no other option back then, right? - Yeah.
Anyway, so this is the livestream.
Oh my god, I...I don't want to see this.
- Sydney! Pitt Street. - I remember Sydney.
(Hey guys, we're just uh, setting up in Pitt Street Mall.)
Ooh!
- Ahh! - I can't believe I started with Ysaÿe 3, dude, like...
- That's pretty in tune! - It's alright!
- Yeah! - Okay, so you can tell this is day one, because I'm thinking...
- ...Ysaÿe, which is like the most tiring piece. - It's like, why would you play Ysaÿe, yeah.
And you can kind of start seeing across the five days of
non-stop busking and sleeping on the streets that
we just get so tired.
- But, you know, we're still fresh right now. - Very fresh.
That's right, okay, so one of the coolest things,
was a lot of fans saw us live-streaming,
- and they came to jam with us. - Yeah, I remember that.
And then I remember some of them even like, gave us food...
Bubble tea, food, it was so good.
(Come on, we've got people watching!)
- Yeah...! - (We got 200 people right now,)
- (watching Max.) - (Yup.)
200 people, that's back in the days.
- Those 200 people watching... - Thank you so much.
You made all the difference, seriously.
- So I remember we moved to Circular Quay. - Yes.
- Dude, you want to change the location. - Yeah.
(I mean, that was a trumpet, you got the permit?)
And we got in trouble!
- Yeah that's right! - Yeah, that's right, we got in trouble!
- 'Cause we didn't have a busking permit, so that's a... - Ohh...
No, we do have a permit!
- I remember we got a permit, like it's... - Oh, we did!
- Yeah, we did! - Yeah!
- So then why did we get in trouble? Oh we— - I don't know.
I remember there were limitations in hours,
- Ugh... - but...it was just really annoying, because...
- ...we're stopping and starting, finding another place, - Yeah.
gotta get the audience again.
Some fans joined us here.
- I feel like our fans are doing more busking than us. - I know!
Because like we're just so tired, they're helping us.
That was like a four-hour livestream already.
- Wow. - Yeah, so we basically streamed as much as we can,
we had to get pocket Wi-Fis back in the day,
and portable battery chargers, just keep rotating it out.
- Do you remember the little...poster banner? - Yeah, I still got it in my house!
- Yeah. - It's the poster banner.
- (Hannah, you're next! You prepared?) - I remember Hannah!
- Yeah...! - (You come prepared.)
- (You can play?) - (Yeah.)
- Had to be Pachabel's... - Canon in D... - (Should we kick vio...Brett out?)
Only way to get an audience.
The only way.
Oh, that is so good!
I can't believe we did that!
- I kind of miss those days, man. - (Brett) Yeah.
So that was day one, and I remember [on] day one,
we got 1/5 of our funding, so we're in high hopes.
But I remember day two and three started getting really difficult.
I just remember us passing out, in like cafes in the city,
- just sitting on the bench and just... - Yeah.
...literally passing out.
Oh wow.
- Oh, taking photos with us... - I think this is SYO people?
Really?
Dabbing. Back when we used to dab.
- So we also had friends come along, play with us. - Yeah...!
Making it happen.
- (Don't ask what we're doing, just...) - You just see the fear in our eyes.
I was so scared.
(Imagine this is the uh,)
- (this is your live, TV show.) - (We got out our sleeping bags,)
- Sleeping bags, ohh... - (we're gonna find a safe spot.)
(Trying to find a safe neighbourhood.)
- Yeah, we're literally trying to find a safe neighbourhood, to sleep. - To sleep on the street.
- Because the city was so dangerous, actually. - It felt dangerous.
- Felt really dangerous. - (That's so weird!)
We eventually found some—
The craziest part is there was like people watching this.
- Now that I think about it. - Yeah, there was people watching it!
- That's so funny to think about, - Oh, I'm gonna make a story out of this.
- this is what it looked like for you guys! - This is so funny.
Yeah!
I didn't know what it looked like for you guys.
It is so, so, so hard to sleep outside.
- I remember being super tired but I couldn't fall asleep. - Yeah, 'cause you get so anxious!
That's like, "Help me, please."
- Yeah, when I do that, it's like... - It's like...
- "Can I just wake up to the funding goal, please?" - Yeah!
But you're...
Brett wasn't even trying to sleep,
Brett was joining the chat, and messaging on his phone,
- like, "Hehe!" - I remember this, I remember this!
"Hey guys, this is Brett, Eddy's fell asleep."
"Should I run away? Run away to safety?"
Dude, I sounded so...
- ...bad, depressed. - Yeah.
"It's not funny!"
- "Not funny." - "Not funny, man, leave me alone."
Couldn't sleep.
Must've been like 4am, 5am, couldn't sleep.
So this is our concert in Sydney Opera House,
our second ever concert,
first one was Brisbane, second one was Sydney.
- This one was, I think, right before Christmas, - Yes.
so we had to add a Christmas element.
But we're in Australia, so this is what we got our friend to help us do.
(Thank you very much.)
Ohhhh, okay.
- Oh, wow. - We got our friend, Patrick, to come up,
give us the power of Paganini, and then we played Jingle Bells,
- but Paganini version. - Yeah, yeah, yep.
Now I remember that.
- Yeah! - Second concert ever.
Nice.
(So like that, ah?)
(After all we've been through, you want to break us...)
Okay, okay, so we went through the effort of trying to learn Singlish,
because that's a thing, right?
We're like, "How do we make our Singaporean concert funny?"
So we tried to learn the Singlish ah,
and like...like that, so we had a friend,
the Singaporean friend, like, trying to teach us the accent.
My reaction was like, "Oh my god, are we seriously doing this?"
- Yeah. - I remember the signing afterwards,
- Oh, the signing queue was huge. - So cool.
- Look at that! - It was crazy.
Singapore, you guys are awesome.
Next one, Poland!
- So we're playing Bach, but like in the style of Wieniawski. - Yes.
You know, famous violin...Polish composer.
And then...
...now Chopin-style.
And then now...
...disco.
Oh, that's so funny!
Oh my god!
- Dude, I can't believe I did that. - Oh, that's awesome!
And my belly's sticking...
I had to play it!
Disco Poland!
- Oh my god, why did I get the job of doing the dancing... - Oh, that's so funny!
- Oh...! - I guess I lost scissors paper rock or something.
Yeah, maybe, I think you lost scissors paper rock.
Oh, no.
Yeah so I lost a dare, scissors paper rock,
and this is what I had to do.
(Oh, ladies!)
(Oh, it's so cold!)
- (there you go.) - (#BrettStripping!) - (Oh, I'm so cold!)
Pledge our kickstarter—
(Ohhhh!!!)
(Wait, pose like the guy!)
We were just being total idiots.
Yeah, being idiots, yeah!
I remember Naruto-running through some historic place.
- We basically did Naruto-running in every country, right? - We did, yeah, and I was like,
- I remember in the U.K. we did Naruto-running. - Yeah, with a lot of fans.
(Naruto!)
And I think in Norway, you slipped.
- I did! I hurt my back! - (Eddy) In the ice, or snow.
Here's just like, some snippets from our New York show.
The audience was insane, you guys screamed for so long,
it blew our minds.
(Wait!)
- (Wait! Wait!) - (Wait! No, we're here!)
(Oh, sorry!)
- (So sorry, sorry...) - (Oh, so sorry!)
(Oh my god.)
- I can't watch myself, I can't watch myself... - I can't watch myself, man,
- I don't wanna watch that! - Yeah, I can't watch it!
- The joke was meant to be we were late, for the concert. - Yeah, yeah.
Funny story, right?
Here in the beginning...
...the joke, it's just I'm getting really nervous,
and having shaky bow, I can't play, right?
We designed that,
- because I actually was so scared, of starting the show, - Yeah...!
so I thought, "How do I make it less scary for me to start the show?"
- "We'll make it part of the script to get shaky bow." - Just start it...
- Yes! - "Therefore, it will be natural!"
- Yeah... - And so I played, and then Brett...
So I had to play first, ugh...
We did a special Halloween event for this New York show as well.
(So do you know what happens to kids that don't want to practice?)
(Every year, on Halloween,)
(it, will come knocking on your door.)
(And if you don't practice,)
(it, will turn you into...)
(...A VIOLA!!!)
No, here we go.
Can't watch this.
(Daddy, I'm scared!)
(I forgot to practice today!)
- (Help!) - (YOU SHOULD HAVE PRACTICED!)
(WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN TO YOUR DAD?!)
(I'm sorry! I'll practice!)
- (I'll practice!) - (YOU NEED TO PRACTICE MORE!)
- (I don't wanna play viola!) - (LING LING DOESN'T—) - It's so...
It's so stupid.
- (Brett) So stupid...! - So stupid.
Okay, so then again, like, we were in New York,
and we were trying to make something tailored for New York.
- And it was Halloween then, so we made that segment. - Yeah.
Oh, wow.
There's a lot of good memories there.
If you guys want to see some sort of similar version,
but more upgraded in our virtual tour,
- check out our virtual tour coming out this time, - Mmm.
- it's going to be again, a new thing, - Mmm.
we've never done this before, it's going to be super exciting.
- Shout out to all the fans that were with us back then, - Mm-hmm.
for making it such a great experience,
and for everyone that's attending,
we can't wait to see you guys there.