Islands
Maybe one of the Greek islands would be best to listen to our "Islands" record, like Skiathos or Skopelos. Islay is a really cool island of the north coast of Scotland. I went on tour to Orkney which is amazing, as well as the island Stornoway.
SXSW
We were invited by SXSW to go on this tour from Austin to Boston. It's partly true we formed our band on that tour, however we decided to start the band right before that. It's me, Joey Haynes and Kev Jones. We are with five now: other guys that joined our current US tour are Marcus and Neil. On our tour from Austin to Boston we were accompanied by Ben Howard, The Staves and Nathaniel Rateliff. We learned so much from playing shows with them every night. It was amazing overall and we feel very lucky to have been on that tour.
Ben Howard
What surprised us on the tour is that we made so many new friends within music. Before that, we only knew Ben Howard. I met him once at a gig and already I was a fan of his music. It was nice to get to know him a bit and realize he's a really great guy. The girls of The Staves were just the funniest people you ever meet. And all the people filming Marcus Havey, Ty Johnson, Kelly Teacher, they were so nice to us. We were basically the baby of the group and trying to be a good band amongst really good bands.