Rising Sun Rock Festival
Folks first formed in 2013 when former Galileo Galilei members Fumito Iwai and Kazumasa Noguchi moved back to their birthplace of Hokkaido to start a band. Iwai and Noguchi asked former Guild member Yoshitomo Kobayashi to join their band, and they moved to Sapporo, renting a house with Iwai's older brother Katsutoshi Iwai and his friend Masatsugu Takahashi, who later joined Folks. The group based themselves at their hometown of Eniwa, Hokkaido, and released their first extended play "Take Off" in March 2013, and performed at the Rising Sun Rock Festival, on August 17, 2013. In February 2014, they made their major label debut with Ki/oon Music.