How did the band sign with Shangri-La to release the latest album, Neptune?
Our UK label are friends with the guys who just started up Shangri-La. Around the time when we had finished our album, we did a show in LA and a bunch of labels came down. I remember them, sort of not telling us about everyone who was coming. And I remember, even though the majors had turned up, we were like, ‘They’re not going to sign us. Everyone’s scared shitless right now. And no one’s got any money.’ So we were like, ‘Whatever.’ Those guys from Shangri-La, who are previous record execs, and who had twenty, and thirty year careers between the whole and don’t need to prove anything to anyone, and don’t need to protect their jobs because they’ve created the label themselves… just walked into the dressing room and were like, ‘We just really want to work with you.’ And then went on quickly to tell us about everything they’d done and who they’d worked with over the years and ‘wow’-ed us in a glitzy way, but also in a sincere way. And telling us, ‘We’re a different kind of label and we
