+++ NEW DATE +++ It’s a story that really begins long before the inception of Novo Amor, in Woodgate, upstate New York, where Lacey was employed as a music teacher at a summer camp, holding classes among the pews of an old chapel by a lake, surrounded by tall evergreens. It was a formative - indeed pivotal - time for Lacey, when much of what he thought he knew changed: his taste in music, his appreciation of the quiet outdoors and, most crucially, his heart was broken for the first time. He returned home to his mother’s house in Wales with no job, no plan and no relationship, and shortly afterwards moved to Cardiff and conjured up Novo Amor – a musical act of defiance in the wake of a break-up; it translates literally to “New Love”.