Could you give us a bit of background on Magnetic Skies and how the band first formed?
Simon Kent: “It was really at the end of a solo project that I had around 2018. It kind of came to a natural conclusion. I had a festival date booked for the summer that year, and I’d already been kind of working with Jo Womar (synths/keyboard) a little bit in that period. We’d been in the studio tinkering around with more electronic-sounding stuff. So we had about four demos at that point. We had that live date, and decided to play it as a duo.
“Jo’s really studio-based, she’d only ever done stuff in the studio at that point, but we thought we’d play the show. Jo really enjoyed it. We then booked another quite low-key gig which went really cool. From there we decided to throw everything into it. We came up with the name Magnetic Skies as
