Christos Mastoras: “When I was a kid, I lacked the self-confidence to even head to the kiosk

In a heartfelt confession, Christos Mastoras opened up astir his puerility up of the merchandise of his unrecorded medium from the sold-out performance helium held with MELISSES astatine the Herod Atticus Odeon—a tribute to the Greek bands that person made history. In a statement, the vocalist explained that helium was a shy kid who, contempt being the beingness of the party, felt rather reserved erstwhile helium was alone.

Reflecting connected his puerility and teenage years and his behaviour successful his societal situation earlier becoming famous, Christos Mastoras said: “When I was a kid, I was ashamed to spell to the kiosk to bargain cigarettes for my father. I would nonstop my champion person to get maine thing to devour from the cafeteria. But successful the group, I was the first, the joker, and the entertainer. Fearless and a spot of a pugnacious guy. I would make fake vigor shows, movie thrillers with a camcorder, and propulsion pranks implicit the phone—without caller ID backmost then—while the older guys laughed beside me. In the group, I was a leader, but alone, I was similar a hermetically sealed oyster.”

He went connected to accidental that the merchandise of his caller medium is dedicated to the person groups that person made history, which helium believes were made up of shy kids—just similar him. “This nighttime is dedicated to the groups that made history, and I’m definite that they consisted of shy, delicate kids similar me, who were searching for their pack. These friends taught maine euphony done borrowed cassettes and CDs and helped maine flight from my locked country with my guitar, to question retired others similar my socially awkward, fragile soul. I recovered them successful the 2nd astir celebrated philharmonic insects, MELISSES,” helium remarked.