round, which she explains is as much about the personal aspect of being in a band as it is the technical side of thing. "I hated touring before. I was always complaining and stressed out, this is what I'm trying to change about myself when I'm on the road," she says. "We had to realise that it isn't always going to be fun, and by the end of the last tour, it wasn't. We couldn't wait to get back home. But we've found out that if it's going to be fun, you have to make that fun for yourselves." This last sentence should resonate with any acts out there currently coming to the end of their first full length tour, and is probably something you can only truly understand by being the ones experiencing it yourselves. Either way, there's a telling reason why a band's fun-loving tour diary-style music video always accompanies their first record but is hardly ever replicated after that. "You just have tokind of treat it like a job at the end of the day, which is technically what it really is." New album, The Only Place , exemplifies this feeling in places. While some have called the record's title-track an "ode to California", it seems rather to be a manifestation of this homesickness while on the road, when all memories of your hometown suddenly seem tinted in lighter shades. "We got the ocean, got the babes, got the sun, we got the waves," Bethany sings on