In mid-August a couple of years back, the eight people that make up We Aeronauts relocated to France for a holiday. They took a car-full of instruments with them too. When they came back they had a band. They wrote a load of songs inspired by the occasion, from the endless bike-rides around the valley they were in, to the foothills of the Alps on the horizon. When they returned they continued to write and began to play shows. In their time as a band they have played live with Why?, Johnny Flynn, Laura Marling, Jeff Lewis and Horse Feathers amongst others, received Radio play from Huw Stephens and recorded a radio session with BBC Oxford Introducing. Their first year together culminated in a set at Truck Festival in Steventon, Oxfordshire, at which they recorded a video session for broadcasting legend Bob Harris. However, not long after that the band dispersed around the globe, with members setting up shop in Mongolia, India, Spain, Canada and Serbia. The remaining members continued to gig, and one by one the travellers returned, before playing triumphant sets at the inaugural sold-out Owl Parliament festival at the Union Chapel and at the London Bridge art-space/venue Shunt. Their second anniversary sees them playing the main stage at Green Man Festival in the heart of the Brecon Beacons, as victors of the in-house competition to open the weekend's proceedings. We Aeronauts are also going back to France this summer to work towards their debut EP release, due in late autumn 2009.