Balcarres Street is in the Morningside area of Edinburgh. We rented our first apartment there back in 2004. We spoke at the time about needing to find "a space" with the right vibe although it was only years later before we fully understood what we meant by that. That's why we chose Morningside. It was the only part of Edinburgh we felt had the right energy for us. We stayed in two further flats there and by the third one we had a sense there was nowhere left to go in Edinburgh but move somewhere else. So we chose Barcelona or it chose us.
From 2004 to 2007 we went through a lot of stuff in that Balcarres Street apartment. Looking back at it now, it was kind of the making of us, setting us up for what is to come. So the song "Balcarres Street" is really symbolic of any situation of feeling hemmed in or not belonging and needing to find "a space", whether that is inside yourself or a physical location or maybe even both.
