Connan Mockasin and Sam Dust’s friendship didn’t get off to the most auspicious start. After both were booked to perform at a music industry party in 2007 (sharing a lineup with an up-and-coming Adele, no less), they ended up getting into a fight when they were individually accused of stealing both a set of microphones and a large ornamental pig. But after Mockasin supported Dust’s old band Late of the Pier on tour the next year, they opened up and soon discussed working together, quickly decamping to Dust’s old council house in the St. Ann’s district of Nottingham to begin work on what would become their self-titled album under the name Soft Hair