“We thought about this during the design phase around 16 months from tour start. “Going from a 22,000-capacity festival to a 2,500-cap club is never an easy task,” Dugan commented.
The recent tour saw Porter Robison and crew go through a variety of venue sizes, from club shows to large outdoor festivals, which required each department to be as flexible as possible, so, no matter the crowd size, each stop would give the audience the full Porter Robinson experience. Porter really puts his heart and soul into his delivery.” Prior to the tour, there were a lot of rehearsals preparing the live set and working on edits of the tracks. “I can see how much work he puts in each day. “Porter has really stepped up production value with The Nurture Live Tour, compared to his previous outings,” enthused Dugan. Leading the production was Tour Director, Robert Dugan and Production Manager, Zach Snyder. Midway through the run, TPi caught up with some of the key players of the Porter Robinson camp to reflect on their experience on the road. Following a successful streamed event called Secret Sky, which saw some of the core crew reunite for the fist time since the COVID-19 pandemic, the wheels began turning for The Nurture Live Tour. Having garnered critical acclaim with one GRAMMY nomination for his Virtual Self EP, it was with much fanfare that Robinson dropped his sophomore release, Nurture. Since his debut album, Worlds, in 2014, he’s bucked the trend of some of his peers, performing everything from pianos and keyboards to lead vocals on several tracks live on stage. “What are they actually doing live?” How many times has this question been posed about DJs or electronic artists? Despite having some of the biggest shows in the world, there are still naysayers – often self-appointed ‘musical purists’ – who scoff at big-name DJs, but even they would have a hard time criticising American Producer, Porter Robinson.