I recently spoke to the lovely Alfie from Irish folk-pop duo Hudson Taylor, about the Battles EP, the joys of technology for bands today, and artichokes. TAT: Hello! Hudson Taylor: Hello! For the record, who is Hudson Taylor and how did you get into music? Hudson Taylor is myself, Alfie and my brother Harry. [How] we got into music? I suppose, it was in our family all our lives. We were on a family holiday in Italy and Harry brought a guitar along with him and we ended up playing on the beach to a group of German people, we had around six at the surf night and then we were on holiday for two weeks and that kinda turned into like sixty people and on the last day we had a gig, so we set up a Youtube. Yeah, we just love playing for people and love performing and everything like that. That kinda spiralled into writing our own songs, and then spiralled into us moving to London and, yeah, here we are now. You released the Battles EP on August 27. So, how was the whole writing process fo