Creativity Quote by Sean Booth

There is a quiet provocation in Sean Booth framing “doing more live stuff” as a discovery rather than a victory lap. Live performance, for electronic musicians especially, is often treated as scale: bigger rooms, bigger rigs, bigger proof that the project “matters.” Booth flips that logic. The small club isn’t a stepping stone; it’s the destination, a deliberate choice to keep the music in its native habitat: close, loud, shared, slightly claustrophobic, where sound doesn’t just travel to you, it presses on you.

The subtext is anti-spectacle. “I don’t really like playing in big clubs” reads less like shyness than distrust of what bigness does to attention. Large venues turn shows into content: a sea of phones, a performer reduced to a distant operator, the crowd atomized into individual consumers having parallel experiences. Booth’s “a few people being together” insists on something older and, now, oddly radical: a temporary community built on proximity and risk, where you can’t fully curate your participation.

Context matters: coming from an artist associated with precision-built electronic music, the line pushes against the assumption that electronic equals impersonal. He’s pointing to intimacy as an aesthetic tool. In a small room, the music’s complexity becomes physical; you feel it with strangers. That’s not nostalgia. It’s a defense of the club as a social technology, one that works best before it scales into a brand.