The Guide caught up with lead singer Tommy Gleeson before they took to the stage to support Aiden at the Roadmender to find out what exactly has been going on.

"We've been working pretty hard to be honest. We've made a real effort to spend as much time on the road as we possibly can and we've been lucky enough to have played quite mixture of support slots," he says.

"We've opened for bands such as the Goo Goo Dolls, we played our own headline shows earlier in the year and we're supporting Aiden. We also managed to squeeze in an appearance at Download Festival, so overall it's been a pretty hectic few months."

STG's performance at the Soundhaus earlier this year was certainly not a highlight of their tour.

A near empty room and a less than excitable audience marred what was a very polished performance from a band who are still relatively wet-behind-the-ears.

There were murmurs of discontent from the band throughout the performance and they were clearly disappointed when they left the stage.

"Some nights it is really deflating when the audience doesn't react well. It was the last night of the tour as well which I guess made it more frustrating," says Tommy.

"Unfortunately when it gets to this point my attitude is generally to then spend the night messing around and not really taking the whole thing too seriously, throwing in the odd insult to the audience here and there.

"I have to say though that my favorite shows are the ones with the hostile audiences. It brings something else out of me, it gives a totally different edge to the show I think.

"We've had a few shows on this tour where the crowd have really hated us but in some ways that makes it even more fun. It propels you to play even harder and go even more insane to try and win them over."

It's Slaves To Gravity's sound that has appealed so greatly to their audience.

Tommy's gravelly vocals, which are not dissimilar to those of the great Scott Stapp and Chris Cornell, and compelling lyrics adds some real substance and compliments the bands grunge-infused rock sound perfectly.

"There's a lot of different influences going on in our music, each one of us brings something slightly different to the party and we've all got our own individual influences," says Tommy.

"There's a bit of everything going on, a bit of punk, metal and rock and also there's some really old school bands, for example the Beatles, that we grew up listening to when we were really young and they're the bands that really stay in the back of your head, and they stay with you really for life.

"I guess that's why our music seems to appeal to such a broad spectrum of people but then, on the flipside, a lot of people just don't know how to pigeon-hole it and therefore can't get into it.

"A lot of people feel the need to put a band's music in a box so that they can understand it and I suppose we do alienate some people from that perspective.

"However, it seems to be that there's something that comes across to all different audiences so we're quite lucky in that respect."

It was certainly a break from the intimate venues when STG played the Download music festival in June.

Download, staged at the legendary Donnington Park, provided a challenging environment for the band who, by their own admission, found the experience exciting – despite a few complications along the way.

"The interesting thing with festivals is that your not just playing your to your own audience so you really have to go onstage and really try and win people over which is good fun for me personally," says Tommy.

"Download was a brilliant experience, it was great fun but it was also quite chaotic. We had huge amounts of press events to do and a whole load of other things aside from just getting up and playing.

"Then of course when we did take to the stage, an amp blew up mid-performance.

"I guess it made it more testing but I guess that's why it was such a good experience and it's something that I won't forget any time soon."

With their current tour nearly over and no future dates currently scheduled, I expected that the band would take some time out to refresh themselves however Tommy and the guys have different ideas.

"There's never really any time to relax and switch off to be honest," he says.

"I think we'll go back home and take some time to do some more writing, we write when we're on tour and also when we are at home, that's the day job really."

"We have our record coming out in Japan next month which is really exciting and something we're looking forward to. It would be awesome if we could play some dates over there as well but we'll have to see what happens.

"We're also hopeful of tying up a deal for the United States and also the rest of Europe at some point in the near future. Hopefully by Christmas we will have all of that tied up and we can then begin looking at getting out to those places next year and touring again in the New Year."

Having formed in 2006 and had a relatively slow start, surely the rapid progression of the bands success in such a short period of time must be daunting for the young rockers.

"Well we didn't want to stay in the underground forever, we all want to make a career out of this so it's only good that it's growing.

"We still feel like we're very much in control of how this is growing though, which two-and-a-bit years in is a very reassuring feeling to have."

The band's debut album, Scatter The Crow, is out now.

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