The comparison of subways and sandwiches is a bit of an old joke for us now.

We're based on our friends' couches and in our old rooms at our parents' houses. What we have in common is that our parents loved to travel, so touring comes natural to us. We're a band of gypsies.

The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.

The musical directors of the program just got sent our album, and they just liked it and they wanted us on the show. But we looked at the list of bands that they turned down for us, and it was just weird !

We really wanted to create an emotional journey with this record, which is why every song is different. I think people's opinion will change about us with every new song they hear and eventually they won't be able to think of us as being any specific style.

[Singer/guitarist] Billy [Lunn] has been diagnosed with nodules on his vocal cords, and has been advised to take at least 6 weeks complete rest from touring, which will include the [North] American tour. We're all really disappointed by this, as we had been looking forward to the coming dates.