@Ticketek_AU I was online from 6:30am in both Sydney and Melbourne and didn’t get let in once. Tell me how that’s fair. Your system is a joke. Do better.
I’ve received a lot of very sweet messages in response to my last few tweets & I just wanted to say thank you. I love our fam and it’s humbling to feel so cared for. I’m not sure how we found each other but I am so happy we did & hope to see as many of you as possible this year🖤
I always expected that one day I’d have some fans that were a bit odd, maybe made me mildly uncomfortable, but still generally harmless and well intentioned.
Nothing prepared me for the harassment I’ve experienced or the weight of having people use me as a dumping ground for genuine, and sometimes exceedingly dark, psychological problems.
It has become very hard to balance wanting to have a close relationship with the incredible community myself and ATC have somehow have been so lucky to have while also feeling the need to scrub myself with bleach from feeling so abhorrently violated by a select few. I’ve slowed down meeting people after shows, etc. because of how wildly uncomfortable and sometimes unsafe some people have made me feel.
Please remember, at the end of every single tweet, comment, message you send is still a very real person no matter how famous or not they are. Everyone deserves to feel safe and maintain privacy and boundaries.
It’s been happening for a very long time, but it’s not something I think I’ll ever get used to.
99% of the ATC fam is wonderful. I am constantly amazed at how we could possibly have ever deserved you. It’s a very, very small amount that cause this feeling. I don’t think it will change, I can only control my ability to process it. But just wanted to be honest. I love you 🖤
For me, more importantly than how I feel, is just doing everything I can to maintain safe spaces for our fam. Whether it’s online or at shows. It’s a burden I (perhaps somewhat unknowingly) signed up to shoulder but YOU didn’t. And you will always be important to me.
atc is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. i love this band. i love @DanielGow & @WillFerri. i love our touring family, and every other member of our team past and present. i love our fans, our atc fam. it’s been the one constant in a world constantly changing.
We were so worried about releasing music for the first time without a label in almost a decade. But waking to our first new music Friday in AGES and tons of playlisting is such a dream. ATC independent era is gonna fucking POP OFF.