Where would you like to see your band in another 5 years time then? Hopefully still on the same trajectory and still enjoying making music together. We've managed 5 years without any major fall outs so I think we're good for now. We've always said that as long as we can see progress at the end of the each year, even if it's just baby steps, we'll keep doing this. We're more confident in our abilities than we ever have been so I think the future is bright. But not orange.
How excited are you for your upcoming UK tour, and what should attending fans expect? We're very excited, our last headline tour at the end of 2011 was a very special one for us - it was the first time crowds in England & Wales seemed to have the same passion for our music that Scotland has had for the last while. Nearly every show sold out so it left us thirsty to take the next step so this April can't come soon enough. Crowds can expect what they've seen from us before but with some slightly fancier production and also a comedy half hour set by myself half way through the show. That second part isn't true, as much as I fought for it. The world needs to hear my jokes.
As well as your headline UK tour, you guys are also heading out with the HUGE Blink 182, with this in mind, how did this chance come around, and how excited are you for such a tour? We did a few shows with Blink in 2010 and did a short European tour with Angels & Airwaves at the beginning of last year so we struck up a relationship with Tom through that and I think he just likes our band? We're really excited about these shows aswell, they're big on another level. We've done a few arena supports before and they're always fun. Catering is usually a taste explosion as well, and the real goal of tour is to eat nice food isn't it?
You've been lucky enough to tour with some pretty big bands, so what do you learn the most from doing these kind of support slots? We have kind of learned everything we now know about surviving on the road. Our first support tour was in 2007 with Circa Survive. It was only 5 shows but to us it felt like the most gruelling experience of our lives. We learned so much just by watching them and we've just picked stuff up along the way from bands we've supported since then.
You guys are also hitting the Warped Tour, how excited are you to be part of such an iconic tour? I think we're more scared than excited! We've heard it can be really tough, especially for a band with not much of a profile in America. Also, we're from Scotland where the sun only shines one day a year and the heat can be mental for most of the tour. We'll either have a great time or come back so burnt that we'll be dead.
What else does 2012 hold for Twin Atlantic? Lots of touring obviously, but we're also really anxious to get recording again. We've started to get the songs together for something new so hopefully we can get it pieced together and out before the end of the year. Last time we said this it came out a year later, so we'll see how that pans out....