Simon Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith Talks South By Southwest (and this is the last you’ll hear of it for at least a year):
“Our experiences at SXSW have varied from saving old crippled women from drowning in the creeks under the bridges, to eating entire banana peels. This year we even came upon a couple making love in a sewer. We’ve ended up doing laps around our hotel at four in the morning and scraping the excrement off of boiled shellfish with our bare hands. We’ve been offered rides —
unsolicited — by Texan girls who refuse to give us a name, but then explain to us how drunk they are as they drive us to our hotel. We also picked up a stray dog to reclaim as our own on our way out of the festival. In the midst of the festival, these daytrotter sessions were the long awaited sense of normality that we had been deprived of.”

We’ve come to the end of the road (how many of you just had a Boyz II Men flashback, be honest?) of our SXSW journey and it ends appropriately enough with the very last session we recorded at the Big Orange. We were all haggard at this point. We’d recorded a lawless number of songs, our wits were at their ends and the vans were already half-packed when Simon Dawes came a callin’. And what happens? The boys wish to do a five-song session. We say what the hell, we’ve made it this far. They sold us with their sharp dressedness. They turn in a batch of five new songs that are going to make all Incubus fans slobber during their summer tour. Austin, we may see you again. – Sean Moeller