8 DJs tell us how they stay sane on tour
Skream, Heidi and more on keeping a positive mindset
6 Kornél Kovács
"The more I travel, the more important it is to take care of myself. Being away most weekends means that I'll want to take Monday or even a bit of Tuesday off because I need downtime. Even though you can relax on the flights, it's still work if you're travelling as a DJ. It's important to have downtime and understand that travelling is part of the job. If I've been playing Friday and Saturday, for example, I'll most likely be travelling back home to Stockholm on the Sunday and I'll try to chill on Monday. Just a few hours of relaxation and isolation. I've only started actively thinking about it recently.
I've started taking better care of my apartment and planning stuff for my home when I'm in Stockholm. Just putting effort into that to balance the feeling of being all over the place. I used to use hotel gyms quite a bit, but for me to be able to exercise, I have to build up a very specific sort of routine. I'm going on a US tour soon and that's the mecca of gym culture so I'm definitely planning on doing a tour of US gyms. When I was younger, I was super fit and doing weightlifting all the time!"
[Photo: Hjalmar Rechlin]
