How did it feel being invited to tour with such legendary artists as the Meat Puppets and Dinosaur Jr?
Hardy: It was an honour! We basically sent them our music and the Meat Puppets manager got in touch with us to start with. Brantley: I think they wanted to be on tour with a younger band anyway so to think we fitted the bill over so many other great bands was a privilege, as you can probably imagine! Your first album ‘Wrecking Ball’ came out in 2008, and has achieved something of a slow-burning cult following ever since. How do you feel about that and would you rather have been in people’s faces as it were from the moment the record was first released? Brantley: It is what it is, and there’s not a lot we can do about it. We’ve definitely always preferred the idea of the band having some kind of longevity rather than worry about how soon its coming. Whether we play to eight or eight hundred people we’d still put on the same level of performance. Hardy: The main thing about being in a band is not to expect anything from this because you’re just one of many bands striving to achieve the s
