Here’s the original version of Forever, from Aaron Dessner’s garage. |
Back in 2013, off the back of touring Sigh No More and Babel we decided we needed to take a bit of a break from the road, catch our breath and regroup. The first time we really hung out to make music together was after a couple months living our lives and it was in the back garden of a friend’s house deep in Brooklyn, NY. That friend was Aaron Dessner from the National and he had built a studio in the garage in his garden. Between catching up, eating burritos and having a couple drinks, we messed around a bit with some new song ideas. This was one of those moments. Many of the songs that began in that garden ended up on Wilder Mind, whereas the later version of this song we saved for Delta. We just thought it’d be fun to share the journey that these songs go on some times! This little nugget is dedicated to our amazing audiences, and our spectacular crew, for the Delta tour. We miss you, we love you and hope everyone is staying safe. The lads x |
A limited edition 7” white vinyl is now available to pre-order on the store, which includes the B side ‘Friend Of The Devil’, taken from the Red Hot Charity Compilation ‘Day Of The Dead’, also produced by Aaron Dessner. |
Join Ben for a chat on ‘Live at 5’ over on our Instagram at 5pm BST today.
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We have always been mindful of the ecological impact of touring on our natural environment and, since we started the band, have taken part in various initiatives together and also individually to contribute to reducing that footprint. However, we’ve always felt like there was more that we could do and whatever that was we wanted to ensure it was both a sustainable contribution and one that we could track the accountability to safeguard its effectiveness. So in 2018, as we were recording Delta, we engaged various experts to help us implement a number of schemes and methods to ensure we could start to reflect our ambition to reduce our footprint as we tour. We are proud to announce that, with your help, we have achieved the following: -14,802 lbs of recycling was diverted from landfills - 10,500 lbs of compost was diverted from landfills - 58,000 single use plastic water bottles were avoided backstage alone! - Greener products for cleaning the tour buses - Carton water management instead of relying on venues' plastic disposable water. - Water refill stations set up throughout backstage to encourage the use of provided Swell and Nalgene bottles Fan impact was reduced as well: - The rCUPoneplanet program at concessions eliminated 60,000 disposable plastic cups across the tour - The Reverb RockNRefill program eliminated 16,000 disposable plastic bottles at just 18 shows - Fans took 10,000 actions, including signing up with local non-profits, at 18 shows. On top of this, we are committed to offsetting carbon emissions from the Delta Tour, and will make a separate statement shortly regarding how we will be doing so. We are committed to this planet we live on and will continue to provide updates around these initiatives as time goes on. We appreciate you taking the time to read this post, we are grateful for the role you played in our greening efforts, and we hope you will also take whatever steps you can to protect the earth. |