Airways

Airways was born in frontman Jake Daniels’ garage in Peterborough, UK, a town on the outskirts of London, wedged between city life and suburbia. Drummer Brian Moroney had moved from Chicago on a whim and bassist Jamie Reynolds had submitted an audition tape. As they rehearsed their way out of self-proclaimed mediocrity, the three devised a sound that combines a punk simplicity (chest-rattling riffs) with a pop sensibility (tongue-in-cheek lyrics that roll eyes at the mundane dilemmas that life throws our way). After their first show in Peterborough for an audience of ten people, the trio found themselves opening for Nothing But Thieves (among The Maine, The Hunna, and others) and playing gigs from New York to Amsterdam to Poland. They began to form a small army of followers throughout the world who could sing back the lyrics of their songs – even the ones that had not yet been released. The next thing they knew, the band was playing headline shows across Europe, securing festival slots, and even selling out a headline show at London’s Omeara. Their debut album ‘Terrible Town’ was produced by Dom Craik (Nothing But Thieves) and recorded mostly throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the band had to overcome the obstacle of being stranded thousands of miles apart from one another. With the power of modern technology, lockdown productivity prevailed and bedroom studios combined to birth this behemoth of a debut album.