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"    Photo: Getty Images   &amp;quot;You are a football Scrooge!&amp;quot; Jessie Ware said as she gleefully paced up and down the Sutro Stage at Outside Lands. She was calling out a security guard for momentarily ruining her fun. The guard appointed at the photo pit had swatted away one of the many beach balls that were making the lofty rounds throughout the delivery of her more danceable hits, and the soulful British chanteuse had crouched down with her arms outstretched in hopes of intercepting one of them on the downbeat. &amp;quot;I was gonna kick that!&amp;quot; she cried, leaping to the center of the stage once more and launching into a chorus that soared higher than any of the inflatable toys ever could. &amp;quot;I was gonna hit it on the beat, too!&amp;quot; This is Ware&amp;#039;s party\u2014with tens of thousands of people getting down to &amp;quot;Wildest Moments&amp;quot; as they have in countless crowds across the world\u2014and she&amp;#039;ll kick a beach ball when the beat drops if she wants to.   Before having a\u2014er\u2014ball onstage at Outside Lands, Ware walked us through her touring packing tips, connection with her fans, and favorite live music moment of the summer. Welcome to San Francisco! It&amp;#039;s a beautiful day here in Golden Gate Park. What do you love the most about playing a festival like this? I&amp;#039;ve been lucky enough to play in all these different places, from Osheaga in Montreal to Golden Gate Park. With festivals, you have to work a bit harder, but you learn a lot about your audience, and you hopefully secure some new fans who are going to come and see you again. What&amp;#039;s the most challenging aspect of being in front of a crowd like this? The traveling is quite tiring, but you still give more than 100 percent when you go on stage for the people who&amp;#039;ve paid money to come and see you. It&amp;#039;s a way of winning over people who maybe weren&amp;#039;t sure about you. I want to be regarded as a good live act, so I&amp;#039;ve put myself under the pressure of giving so much. I&amp;#039;ve just learned about the joys of wearing flat shoes on stage, so now I can work harder! [laughs]  The white patent-leather loafers you&amp;#039;re wearing are great. To be honest, I was really stupid with the shoes I brought for this tour. They&amp;#039;ve been all open-toed. I was freezing today, so these are my performance shoes. What does the rest of your touring uniform look like? High-waisted trousers, a strong suit jacket, a crop top, big hoops\u2014these ones are from Topshop. What&amp;#039;s one of your favorite live music moments from of the summer so far? Playing the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury really meant a lot to me. Peel was a really respected person who helped a lot of people make it in the music industry. He passed away, and they named this tent after him. I played that tent about four years ago as a backing singer, and to play it to a packed-out audience on my own this year, that was really, really special. It meant a lot. I&amp;#039;m sure you&amp;#039;ve seen some crazy outfits rocked by concert-goers at your shows. Is there a fellow performer who inspired you? Karen O is always amazing from The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She always looks incredible and is the person wearing the funnest outfits at a festival. What song from your set has been working best with the crowd? I never get bored of &amp;quot;Wildest Moments.&amp;quot; I feel like that&amp;#039;s the one that resonates the best with everyone. I&amp;#039;m always really surprised and touched with how many people sing it back to me. San Francisco is beautiful, but is it the perfect place for you to perform? What&amp;#039;s your ideal setting for a show? I have to earn this, but the perfect place for me to perform would be in just darkness. Hopefully for my second album, I&amp;#039;ll be able to play in the dark. At the moment, I&amp;#039;m more of an &amp;quot;easy listening in the afternoon&amp;quot; sort.  At the end of this crazy, festival-filled summer for you, what&amp;#039;s the one lesson you&amp;#039;ve learned?  Wear flat shoes! You perform better. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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