The British band Starsailor was founded by singer and guitarist James Walsh, keyboardist Barry Westhead, bassist James Stelfox, and drummer Ben Byrne in Wigan in 2000. They issued their first single entitled "Fever" the following year. Also in 2001 the band released the "Alcoholic" hit single and the full-length album called Love Is Here
In 2004 Starsailor released its second album entitled Silence Is Easy, which was produced by John Leckie and Danton Supple. The full-length called Outside appeared two years later. The record had huge success both sides of Atlantic, the tracks "In the Crossfire" and "This Time" sent it to the top of American and British charts.
