[1][2] In April 2007, the duo won the XFM unsigned bands competition to play at the Big Night Out concert[3] supporting The Enemy at London's Brixton Academy to 5000.
In 2008 they released two more singles "Don't You Want Me" and "By Myself" the former reaching Number 10 in the Kerrang Charts whilst "By Myself" showed a more softer side of their sound, it still achieved several 'single of the month' articles, including Nuts Magazine.
Around this time Zandra Rhodes designed and created stage outfits for the band to be worn at their performance at the CMJ Music Festival in New York City.
Rooftops moved away from the raw, two piece feel of Get It Back and saw the band experiment with piano songs as well as larger, grander productions using horns and strings on some tracks.
Halfway through the recording session they did a short tour of Germany taking in several festival performances and testing the Rooftops material to audiences for the first time.
In August that year, Alex Chisholm suffered a terrible surfing accident in Cornwall, nearly drowning and breaking his neck, after being airlifted to hospital it was said by doctors he would be lucky to walk again and very doubtful that he would ever play drums again.
However the material was deemed a little too soft for their existing UK fans and the band started to hint in interview that Rooftops would be a one off experiment, and they would return to the raw sound they initially became popular for.
However the band were seemingly unhappy at the limited edition status release and were vocal at the time of wanting a full album and single campaign.
With radio support "Get Up, Stand Up, Die" was released on download worldwide and on limited edition, hand painted vinyl – which sold out.