The Author as we know them now came into being just over a year ago, following a show with The Automatic at Fort Regent leisure centre so rowdy it culminated with a back-stage food fight. "It was then that we realised that most of that jangly indie stuff, we were pretty bored of it," says vocalist/guitarist Christian Silver. "It didn't get the crowd moving enough, so let's take a new slant on things and see what we can mix together." Solidifying as a five-piece – that is Chris, co-frontman and fellow songwriter James Dolan, bassist Jonny Knight, synth player Sam Falles, and drummer Justin Vooles – the band chose not to mope about the lack of a scene on their tiny island of Jersey, but to set out and build one from the ground up.