Introduced by mutual friend, The Charlatans’ Jon Brookes, in December 2010, Palmer (drums) travelled from Birmingham to meet London-based keyboard-player turned Ghosts singer/songwriter Starling (formerly Ou Est Le Swimming Pool) at Euston Station. “We got coffee, discussed what we liked and didn’t like about music and used that as a starting point,” says Starling. “Ian is really into 80's synth pop and also bands like MGMT and Empire of the Sun, and I’m a big fan of TV On The Radio and bands that use synths in modern interesting ways, so it was kind of different stuff but there was definitely crossover. I played him a demo and he said he really liked it. He had a strong vision, he wanted to do a new project and I had just come to the end of one, and so we checked out a few studios together and then The Ghosts grew from there.”
