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How Ghost brain rot turned into months of work
"If you have Ghost, You have everything"
While I've always been a creative person, it's been fair to say that the last few years have been pretty dry in terms of creating any sort of content. You would think being told to stay at home during a pandemic would give someone all the free time to create whatever their heart desires, but obviously this is redundant when there is no inspiration or drive to begin with...
The Start of An Obsession...
As the world started to open back up, I felt unsatisfied with how I had spent the last few years, especially as someone who loves to create in any shape or form, be it photography, art or music. Live concerts had slowly been cautiously coming back, and while we were all wondering whether or not they would ever be the same, I knew for certain I would not be. I had just gone through a massive life change, I was newly no longer engaged, I moved 200 miles away back with my parents, away from all my friends, my home and my job. As one naturally is in this scenario, I wasn't at my best mentally. I decided that 2022 would be a year of trying new things, and saying 'yes' more. A spare ticket was offered out to me for a band whom I liked very casually, but just never got round to seeing live, but with this new mindset in desperation to get myself out of the funk I was in, I said 'hell yes, I'll take it'. That band was Ghost.
I won't go into too much detail of the evening I saw Ghost live for the first time, that's for the zine to tell. But it felt like the closest thing I had ever had to a religious experience. Music (and a live show) had not made me feel this way in at least a decade. I bought a ticket for another show the same week, and soon I found myself engaging in the online community around Ghost, especially on Twitter. Ghost started to become a big part of my life. I wanted to listen to everything ever made, first thing in the morning. Read every interview ever, watch every video ever. I was having so much fun, I was pulled out of the slump I had been in for god knows how long at this point prior. I started making little funny creations on Twitter, and then it hit me. This big burst of inspiration and ideas came flowing in. I needed an outlet, thus, Ghost Gazette came to light.