Touts formed when I was about 16. We met at a football club; Derry’s such a small place so everyone knows everyone. We started off trying to do the 60s power trio thing, so our early sets consisted of 60s garage songs punctuated over indulgent solos. Eventually we moved more towards pub rock and Dr Feelgood became a big influence – they still are, albeit not such a conscious one. From there, as we learned more and played more, it was a natural enough progression to where we are now.
Our latest single, “Old Man’s Land”, came really naturally. It was recorded in the early half of 2020, during lockdown when we started working on songs for a new album, but we didn’t actually realise we were writing an album at the time. Jason really loves reggae so he finds a way to work that in there, and we had the idea of doing a sort of “Band On The Run” by Wings. “Band On The Run” is a song made up of a few parts (when the acoustic comes in) and we wanted to put that into the song while we were writing the music.
