 The band also played a string of small venues in the UK to test out new songs, in March and April 2008.The Maccabees performed at Offset Festival in London as well the Underage Festival in August 2008.On Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show in February 2009, Felix confirmed the name of the follow-up album to be "Wall of Arms", an announcement that coincided with the release of the free downloadable track, "No Kind Words".