On the road across France with Sébastien Tellier, the duo document a run shaped by transformation, disorientation, and fleeting connection. There’s something shape-shifting about Deep Faith, a project that exists somewhere between performance and feeling, spectacle and introspection. Their music pulls from everywhere at once: opera, rave, pop, and something harder to define, something emotional, searching, unfinished.
With their new single “Don’t know who my friends are”, that tension becomes even more exposed, a reflection on identity, distance, and the space between who you are and who you’re becoming.
Deep Faith document the moments in between, fragments, impressions, and everything that lingers after the lights go down.
Where are you right now in France? What does it look and feel like around you?
Paris, it feels like a magical Disney fairytale where anything can happen!
What’s been your first impression of playing shows across France?
The hospitality in French theatres is amazing – the food!
How does it feel stepping onto stages each night supporting Sébastien Tellier?
amazing, elegant, theatrical and enchanting.
Describe a moment from these shows that felt surreal or cinematic.
Byron – It was surreal when I realised I can pirouette!
Daniel – sitting on the train going through the countryside. It has stayed with me in my dreams.
Your music explores identity and transformation — does moving city to city amplify that feeling?
Byron – I feel each show we are transforming so yes it definitely can amplify and now we can take away an emotional energy from each of these amazing cities.
What’s the emotional high point so far? And the low?
Emotional high point is seeing people gravitate and love our music – emotional low point is stopping touring.
Is there a particular show or crowd that’s stayed with you? Why?
There was something about Toulouse!!!?
What’s something small but meaningful you’ve noticed while travelling?
Byron- the shots of cognac
Daniel – sitting in silence.
What are you listening to between shows?
Byron – Liza Minnelli and Les Miserables and Marilyn Manson
Daniel – Poison Girl Friend, Sweet Trip, Patrick Juvet
How do you come back to yourselves after performing?
Byron – There is no turning back for me now.
What do you carry with you that feels grounding?
Byron – My anti-anxiety medication!
Touring can blur identity. Do you feel like you’re becoming someone else out here?
Byron – Daniel’s wife said ‘Byron’s becoming Byron’ on this tour. And tbh as someone that knows Byron, I would have to agree.
There’s a vulnerability in your work, even at its most theatrical. What does softness look like for you on the road?
Byron – Quiet times of just sitting and feeling and thinking.
What’s something you wish people could see that happens off-stage?
Byron – My pre-show mental breakdowns!
If this run had a colour, a texture, or a sound, what would it be?
For me, it would be an echoing organ drone.
And finally, what are you searching for right now, even if you don’t fully understand it yet?
Byron – I am searching for a husband and a great new TV show to watch.
