In a bid to help defray tour costs they released a companion piece to 'Thirty Six Strings' in the form of an extended EP Cut Your Heart Off from Your Head.
[citation needed] Also in March that year, having featured on a number of BMX video soundtracks and received interest from the US BMX-ing community they travelled to play their first shows in the US, and at the 2003 South by Southwest music festival in Texas.
[7] Regarded as one of Ireland's finest live bands, the group are resolutely independent and have repeatedly bypassed normal music industry channels.
The successes they have achieved to date - sold-out venues and snapped-up recordings issued on their own label - have been based entirely on their own merits, hard work and a phenomenal word-of-mouth reputation.
[8] On 23 November 2008 a bulletin was posted on their MySpace page stating that they were working on an album and hoping to release it early the following year.
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