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).