<P> Nick Bockrath is part of the band Nicos Gun and previously played bass with Morning Teleportation . Cage got to know him through their friendship with that band . Matthan Minster formed a band called YOURS in 2010 . </P> <P> Members of Cage the Elephant had previously been involved in the band Perfect Confusion when they were in high school, and released a self - titled LP in 2005 . Matt Shultz was also in an experimental punk band in middle school called Left Nostril . </P> <P> The band's name, according to lead singer Matt Shultz, came from an incident in 2006 where a mentally disturbed man approached the band after a show . He hugged Shultz and kept repeating the sentence "You have to cage the elephant" over and over . </P> <P> The band signed with Relentless Records after showcasing at the 2007 South by Southwest music festival . Their first tour was as a support act for Queens of the Stone Age in Canada . They then moved to London, England, to the Leyton area on the outskirts of the city . At the time, Lincoln Parish was only 16 years old, so in order to be able to move, his parents had to sign over parental guardianship to the band . In 2008, they appeared on the British show Later...with Jools Holland with Coldplay, Sia, Glen Campbell, John Mellencamp, and Amy LaVere (all of whom served as audience to the band). They released their eponymous debut album, Cage the Elephant, on June 23, 2008 in the United Kingdom and April 21, 2009 in the United States, Japan, Australia, and Canada, to mostly favorable reviews . Their single "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" reached number 32 on the UK Singles Chart and was featured in the Gearbox Software video game Borderlands, as well as in the 2010 movie The Bounty Hunter . It was also featured as ITunes' free single of the week for the week of April 12, 2009 . </P>

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