They have achieved success with their debut album Rise selling in excess of 30,000 copies in the UK and Europe, 10,000 on day one in Japan and 100,000 worldwide.

The Answer were formed in 2000 by guitarist Paul Mahon, whose father was a jazz trumpeter and member of seminal Irish showband The Freshmen, who released three albums on CBS and toured with the likes of the Beach Boys.

By 2002, the band had attracted the attention of MCD promotions in Ireland, (the company who recently bought out the Mean Fiddler Group, alongside Clear Channel), who put them on as openers at the Witnness Festival that year.

The Answer decided to re-issue the Rise album as a promotion for their summer shows and because there had been so many people complaining about download only singles[citation needed].

The summer of 2007 also saw the band support The Rolling Stones at huge open-air gigs in Belgrade (Serbia), and Düsseldorf (Germany), and The Who in Dublin (Ireland).

They played a live set at the Planet Rock Radio Christmas Party, on 11 December 2007 at the Islington Academy, London, during which they were joined on stage by Paul Rodgers (vocalist for Free and Bad Company).

Def Leppard's lead singer Joe Elliott is a fan of the band and during an interview with AOL has cited them as a possible influence to the way their forthcoming album will sound.

[2] Former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is also a fan and has attended several of the band's gigs and stated so at the 2005 Classic Rock magazine Roll of Honour Awards.

The band finally began to establish some inroads with American audiences when they signed with the indie label The End Records for U.S. distribution.

As part of the agreement, the Answer released an EP in 2008 called Never Too Late, which contained a track from Rise as well as a song, "Highwater or Hell", that would appear on their forthcoming full-length album Everyday Demons.

On 3 October, the band released its third studio album Revival, and a DVD, titled 412 Days of Rock 'n' Roll, containing performances from opening AC/DC's Black Ice World Tour.

The tour's set list was dominated by the new album Solas (2016) but featuring some of the band's most well-known pieces such as "Waste Your Tears", "Demon Eyes" and guitarist Paul Mahon's favourite "Come Follow Me".