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“I grew up going to small clubs and that’s where we fell in love with the music we make,” Kennard says.

“It’s a totally different thing doing a big concert to thousands of people with all the production to a small club experience”.

He says that for dance music artists there’s a “dangerous trap” where they only make music to appeal to bigger crowds.

“Most artists come from an underground world and they gradually climb the ladder”, Kennard says.

“While you’re climbing the ladder you can forget where you came from, so we always try to check ourselves,” he adds.

The pair performed their biggest show to date last week, to a sold-out crowd of 45,000 people in Milton Keynes last Friday.

When asked whether people are choosing to attend big events like theirs, rather than going to their local club, Kennard says festivals and outdoor shows “might be more appealing”.

The Night Time Industries Association has stated that 67 nightclubs closed in the UK in the first part of 2024, with 48 of them independent venues.

It means that approximately two clubs are closing every week in the UK.