"Who knows what will happen if I catch Covid again? But anything I have to do to get back out on stage, I'll do it."
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A rare genetic condition has meant that, like millions of others, Alt-J drummer Thom Sonny Green has spent a lot of the pandemic shielding.
But in February he'll be going back out on tour with his Mercury Prize-winning band - playing stadiums and arenas across the US and UK.
"We're just going to have to be extra vigilant. Whatever we have to do, that's what we'll do, because it'll be so worth it just to get on stage again," he says.
Thom is classed as clinically extremely vulnerable because his genetic condition meant he had to have a kidney transplant, when he was at university.
To stop his body rejecting the new kidney, he takes drugs designed to suppress his immune system - and this leaves him at a higher risk than normal of having complications from something like Covid.
Thom tells Radio 1 Newsbeat he had a "pretty bad" Covid infection this summer.
"I spent a week in hospital and then the symptoms dragged on for three or four months.
"I'm actually fortunate that I'm ok and I'm back to normal, but I don't want that to happen again."
The live music industry has been hit hard by Covid, with artists cancelling tours and music venues shutting for months during lockdowns.
One recent report suggests one in three jobs in the British music industry were lost from 2019 to 2020.
Restrictions on live music were lifted in the UK in the summer, and since then loads of bands have announced tour dates or festival appearances for 2022.
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