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1. We’re all big fans of bluegrass.
2. Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.
3. Things got big quickly for us, and playing arenas… it’s like — and every band will tell you this — you don’t see any of the town.
4. Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they’re more techno.
5. We’re in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.
6. We know what we like in music, and we got into music to try and give back what we got out of it.
7. I think we’re all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, ‘Ugh.’
8. The trick to techno, as a connoisseur, is that you got to do two things: keep your hands down and your mouth shut.
9. We’re a pretty emotional bunch. You know, someone doesn’t say hello to you one day and you’re like, ‘I cannot believe the gall!’
10. Some people like the same thing forever, but I don’t know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren’t good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you’re, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.
11. We like being English, but we’re not that patriotic.
12. I cut off my dreadlocks, but I couldn’t face throwing them away. They were so hard to grow, man. There’s a lot of work goes into those things. Some people keep a diary or a photo album to remind them of their past lives — well, I’ve got hair. Who knows? One day, maybe my grandchildren might want to see it.
13. New York — it’s the center of the world.
14. It’s very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself.
15. Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian.
16. When we first started touring, we were going to these towns we’d never otherwise go to, never otherwise see, and that’s sort of why we like being in a band. But we started playing these bigger rooms and not even seeing the towns.
17. I’ve seen the Stones play for three hours, and the crowd knew every song. It’s what you want in a headline slot at a festival.
18. Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments.
19. I regret a couple of wardrobe decisions.
20. I play banjo, and in Britain, it’s easy to get away with playing banjo because you don’t often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you’re a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.