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You supported one of the biggest and most respected bands in the world, The Cure, how was this experience? Amazing. How could it be anything other than amazing? They are fantastic guys and they really looked after us and made the tour work for us. We can't thank them enough. Even if we will forever be in their shadow from now until the end of time, and even though there will always be questions in interviews about The Cure, or about Robert Smith appearing on our last record‌ It's totally fine for us. They are a band from a time that doesn't really exist so much any more, except in super-produced pop music (and maybe Radiohead) where bands could be so well known they were like household names all over the world‌ I dunno. It was great. We learnt an awful lot off that tour.
What does the future hold for 65 Days Of Static? We have a new e.p coming out - the Heavy Sky E.P, 25th on Hassle Records. It's lots of tracks that we made during the Exploding sessions but didn't seem to fit on the record for one reason or another. We liked them a lot though and it's really exciting to be able to put out almost a whole other album's worth of material so soon after the record. It's sort of like a sister-disc to the record. We'll be touring in support of it in November, around Europe and UK.