"I wanted to say goodbye to my parents" - DiS meets RM Hubbert
Initially, at least, RM Hubbert buried himself in creating and exploring his craft out of a need for escape. However, looking back now, three years on from his debut solo LP First & Last, he says that the music he was making at that time was never directly about dealing with those events. "Strangely, until recently, the music itself wasn't really the source of catharsis, but it did provide me with an excuse to get on stage and talk to rooms full of strangers about the things going on in my life that I couldn't talk about otherwise."»