Musicians spend a lot of time looking out of the windows of one moving vehicle or another. From city streets to mountain passes, it is all part of a cycle of inspiration. One moment we are in a smoke-filled club where people are pressed up against each other, the next we find ourselves in the wide-open plains where we can put as much space between ourselves and the rest of the world as desired.

The city provides the beat — thousands of footsteps, passing cars, traffic lights. It provides the necessary tension at the core of rock n' roll. The countryside is where you set that tension loose in a limitless landscape. It becomes the canvas on which ideas of freedom, exploration, movement and solitude are painted.

As we spread ourselves too thin in these different directions, it is time to get back to the city, to the bubbling core, to dip your foot back in the cauldron…