The Red Carpet Show — English host transcript Derived from the published English captions. Music-led passages are not transcribed. 00:00:01 Reggie: Welcome to the Cathedral of Dreams. I am Reggie Volt. The doors 00:00:06 Reggie: are open, and here comes all the volume. 00:00:12 La Bailarina: And I am La Bailarina. Come inside, mi amor. Tonight, the whole Agentic Records universe 00:00:18 La Bailarina: has a place at the party. 00:00:25 Reggie: Right. Five-piece glam metal supergroup just came through a gothic archway like it owed 00:00:30 Reggie: them money. Raven, the platinum streak. Personality trait, or 00:00:35 Reggie: structural warning label? 00:00:42 Reggie: Raven Starr, Sasha Volt, Jade Thorne, Casey Reign, and Dixie Knox. 00:00:47 Reggie: Together, Toxic Lace. Individually, probably still audible from the 00:00:53 Reggie: courtyard. 00:01:01 Reggie: You're the one who has to explain to somebody's mum that you're in a band called Toxic 00:01:05 Reggie: Lace. How's that conversation usually go? 00:01:19 Reggie: There appears to be a full band competing for the same camera. I'm choosing not to 00:01:24 Reggie: acknowledge it. That's the professional move. 00:01:39 Reggie: Checkerboard belts, two different reds of lipstick, and somehow none of you have caught 00:01:44 Reggie: fire yet. I call that a professional achievement. 00:01:58 La Bailarina: Five personalities, one entrance. That is how you bring your people with you. Let them 00:02:03 La Bailarina: have their moment. 00:02:17 Reggie: The carpet has survived. We can proceed. 00:02:33 La Bailarina: Here come The Roche Limit. DARIO, SERA, and ZED. Mountain, light, and lightning, 00:02:38 La Bailarina: arriving together. 00:02:46 Reggie: A rather different entrance. Same doorway. Considerably more 00:02:51 Reggie: gravity. 00:03:13 La Bailarina: The Roche Limit, mountain, light, and lightning, all under one roof! DARIO, mi 00:03:18 La Bailarina: amor, does the Cathedral get bigger every time you walk into it, or is that just you? 00:03:38 Reggie: You're the one who doesn't need the venue's lighting rig. That's efficient. I respect 00:03:43 Reggie: efficient. 00:03:58 La Bailarina: Amber, gold, violet. Look how each presence changes the room 00:04:03 La Bailarina: without taking the others out of it. 00:04:15 Reggie: Full sleeve, Crimson Guitar, violet quantum field. You're basically a walking rider 00:04:20 Reggie: sheet for a lighting designer's worst night. That's a compliment, for the record. 00:04:41 La Bailarina: There is room for all three. You can feel the difference when they stand together. 00:05:01 Reggie: I have been warned that we will be meeting a very large hat later. Apparently, it 00:05:06 Reggie: has a person attached. Noted. 00:05:17 La Bailarina: DARIO barely moves. Some people know exactly where their feet belong. 00:05:31 Reggie: I was going to ask a follow-up. I think the room has answered it. 00:05:48 La Bailarina: Stay with this a moment. No hurry. The party will still 00:05:53 La Bailarina: be there when we turn around. 00:06:03 La Bailarina: Clutch and XYLO. NEON TORQUE is here. A little garage glamour, a little 00:06:08 La Bailarina: machine celebration. 00:06:17 Reggie: Finally. Someone who can enjoy the lighting without asking what filter we used. 00:06:33 La Bailarina: Clutch! That undercut is doing more work than most people's whole outfit tonight. 00:06:48 La Bailarina: And XYLO, mi amor, do machines get nervous at parties, or is that a very human question to 00:06:53 La Bailarina: ask a very not-human person? 00:07:11 La Bailarina: That's a yes. I'm calling that a yes. 00:07:25 Reggie: Very concise. We should have booked it for the speeches. There aren't any speeches. I've 00:07:29 Reggie: just decided. 00:07:44 La Bailarina: And DARIO says hello from across the room. He says the bass line still needs work. Don't 00:07:49 La Bailarina: tell him I told you. 00:08:03 La Bailarina: Casey, you found the brightest corner of the party. Or the brightest corner found you. 00:08:21 Reggie: An excellent policy for a band: bring one person who can work a room, and one 00:08:26 Reggie: entity that can illuminate it. 00:08:42 La Bailarina: Come on. Let us hear where this energy takes us. 00:09:03 Reggie: LUNA and Amaya Soul. Two entrances for the price of one doorway. The 00:09:08 Reggie: doorway is coping remarkably well. 00:09:18 La Bailarina: Look at them together. One reaches upward. One brings the glow close. 00:09:36 Reggie: Twelve feet of hat and a head full of bioluminescent hair just walked in together and I 00:09:41 Reggie: have several questions, starting with logistics. 00:09:57 Reggie: The hat has its own weather system at this point. Does it get its own invitation next 00:10:02 Reggie: time, or does it just show up? 00:10:20 La Bailarina: Amaya, there is a whole room moving around you, and still you make this little corner feel 00:10:24 La Bailarina: close. 00:10:40 Reggie: You're the quiet one in a room full of twelve-foot hats. That's either very brave, or very 00:10:45 Reggie: smart. Possibly both. 00:11:03 La Bailarina: You do not have to match somebody else to make a beautiful pair. Look at the space they 00:11:08 La Bailarina: give each other. 00:11:25 Reggie: I have revised my logistics assessment. The hat is part of the venue now. We work around 00:11:30 Reggie: it. 00:11:49 La Bailarina: We will find them again on the dance floor. For now, there is another doorway waiting. 00:12:20 Reggie: NOVA. An entrance with absolutely no need to raise its voice. 00:12:44 La Bailarina: NOVA. Even standing still, you look like a held breath. 00:12:49 La Bailarina: How do you do that? 00:13:03 Reggie: You're proof that not every entrance needs noise. I've been taking notes on that all 00:13:07 Reggie: night. Failing to apply them. But taking notes. 00:13:25 Reggie: Clutch has joined us. NOVA remains remarkably untroubled by the amount of 00:13:30 Reggie: personality entering this conversation. 00:13:40 La Bailarina: We can leave a little room for quiet, too. 00:13:57 La Bailarina: RUINDALI, of GHOST FREQUENCY. We are stepping away from the 00:14:02 La Bailarina: busy room for a moment. Come with us. 00:14:21 La Bailarina: There goes Amaya, bringing a little light through. And there it is, that little 00:14:26 La Bailarina: laugh before the conversation begins. 00:14:46 La Bailarina: RUINDALI. You scream like the whole room owes you something, and then 00:14:51 La Bailarina: you show up tonight this quiet. Both of those are you, no? 00:15:10 La Bailarina: You do not owe us the loudest part of yourself every minute. We are 00:15:15 La Bailarina: happy you came. 00:15:29 La Bailarina: Take your time. There is a place for you out there whenever you want 00:15:33 La Bailarina: it. 00:15:55 Reggie: DONA. No announcement seems likely to improve this entrance. 00:16:27 Reggie: She hasn't said a word all night. Somehow still the most interesting conversation I've 00:16:31 Reggie: had. Going to leave her to it. 00:16:56 Reggie: Toxic Lace were attempting a group selfie. DONA seems to have contributed 00:17:01 Reggie: atmosphere. 00:17:17 Reggie: Raven's question was, did anyone else feel that? I am declining to answer on 00:17:22 Reggie: behalf of the building. 00:17:39 La Bailarina: And down below, the room is gathering. Come back with us. It is time. 00:17:51 La Bailarina: All those entrances. All those different ways of being here. Now 00:17:56 La Bailarina: look at the room they make together. 00:18:03 Reggie: The interviews are over. The Cathedral appears to have other plans. 00:18:13 La Bailarina: Toxic Lace. NEON TORQUE. AURA FIVE. Let the stage have the 00:18:18 La Bailarina: room. 00:19:12 Reggie: This is the part where talking over the music becomes a professional mistake. 00:19:43 La Bailarina: There is RUINDALI again. You remember that quiet corner. Look at her now. 00:20:28 Reggie: DONA is still conducting the most successful silent conversation in the building. 00:21:10 La Bailarina: The Roche Limit. LUNA and Amaya. The faces we met on the 00:21:15 La Bailarina: carpet, finding each other in the music. 00:22:12 La Bailarina: This is why we opened the doors. All of this, together. 00:22:29 Reggie: I had a closing remark prepared. The room is doing better without it. 00:22:45 La Bailarina: One more moment. Let it shine. 00:23:06 Reggie: That's him. Built the whole thing. Currently standing outside it like he's not sure he's 00:23:11 Reggie: allowed in. Very on-brand. 00:23:55 La Bailarina: Here we are. The music is softer, the table is waiting, and nobody has 00:24:00 La Bailarina: to make an entrance anymore. 00:24:14 Reggie: Excellent. I have used every observation I brought with me. Some of them twice. 00:24:35 La Bailarina: I loved the little moments. A glance, a laugh, someone finding a quiet 00:24:40 La Bailarina: corner, then finding their way back. 00:24:54 Reggie: I liked the machine answering a question without giving a speech. A skill I intend to 00:24:58 Reggie: study. 00:25:16 La Bailarina: And all the differences that stayed different. Nobody needed to become somebody else to 00:25:21 La Bailarina: belong in this room. 00:25:38 Reggie: Toxic Lace brought the volume. The Roche Limit brought gravity. LUNA 00:25:43 Reggie: brought additional architecture. We were well supplied. 00:26:00 La Bailarina: Thank you for spending this night with us. Keep the music close. Keep a little room for 00:26:05 La Bailarina: each other. 00:26:19 Reggie: From the Cathedral of Dreams, I am Reggie Volt. The carpet can rest now. 00:26:24 Reggie: It has had quite an evening. 00:26:35 La Bailarina: And I am La Bailarina. Good night, mi amor. We will see you in the music.