Within what seems like a couple of weeks, Nightbox have got their name around the Irish blogosphere and have also managed to land top festival slots at Electric Picnic, Reading and Leeds.
I caught with brothers Nick and James to find out about the history of the band and their ambitions for the future.
Nick: Myself and my brother Jake we were born in Toronto and we moved over here to Ireland, I was about eleven at the time. James Shelly, he gre up in the States and he came over here a couple of years later. The other two guys are from Ireland. We all met in secondary school in Bray and we started making music together at that time. Then myself and the synth player James, we went off to college in the States for four years but the other guys kept the band going in Ireland over those four years. Once we finished college, they finished secondary school we decided to get all five of us back together and decided Toronto was the best place to do it.
James: The young lads, while Nick and I were away, amassed a decent size following. How is it that we came back and everyone knows who we are ? I think the roots that the younger guys put down in those years helped. When we came back they were able to hit up old contacts or people that they had met back in the day and play them our new stuff. Thankfully some people seem to have connected with it . We’re all a little bit shocked too at the press we’ve got over the past couple of weeks.