Yard Act says not thinking about the magnitude of playing bigger gigs such as Coachella and The Tonight Show is an important “coping mechanism” to deliver their best performance. The Leeds-based rockers, speaking to the PA news agency at Coachella, say they try to “make the most” of unexpected situations and “focus on the task at hand”.
Despite their debut album only having been released in January, the band has just wrapped up a slew of US tour dates which included two shows at the world-famous music festival and a special guest appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night programme. “That was a buzz,” frontman James Smith said about it.
“You’ve got to make the most of those situations, you don’t expect to end up in them, so when you do it’s like ‘cool’. It might be the first of many times you do it, it might be the last time so just do what you do, you have fun with it, and you take as much free stuff as you can.”
