After breaking his back out in the French Alps during avalanche training, Waiting for Smith spent a year in bed recovering where he learned to play guitar. Waiting for Smith took his name from the first drummer, Smith, who constantly failed to show up. WFS's debut single Monkeys in My Head premiered in Clash Magazine earlier in the year and got 18,500 streams on Spotify with airplay across the UK, Canada, USA and BBC Introducing. His new single Trade It In was released in May with support from AWAL and BBC Introducing London to start a waterfall of single releases throughout 2019.