They've toured with Kings of Leon, appeared on David Letterman and Conan O'Brien's late-night talk shows and their last album made it into the Top 40.

But the members of Atlanta indie band Manchester Orchestra haven't let success go to their heads.

"I don't think we'll ever be big-headed rock stars," says keyboardist-vocalist Chris Freeman.

"We're too normal. We live in the suburbs with old people. We have barbecues and taco nights."

It's not like they've had a lot of time to hang out in their backyards lately. Since the release of their latest CD, Mean Everything to Nothing, the band has been out on the road playing their hook-laden, riff-heavy indie rock to anyone who will hear it.

Luckily for Manchester Orchestra -- who open for Silversun Pickups tonight at the Edmonton Event Centre and tomorrow night at MacEwan Hall -- more and more people have been catching on.

"We definitely noticed on our last headlining tour that more kids were coming out and we were selling out most of the shows," says Freeman.

"Being able to go to every town and play a sold-out show is definitely the best feeling a band could have. We're certainly not making that much more money. But we're definitely seeing some of the fruits of our hard labour in terms of touring goes."

Freeman says although the rockstar mansion and $100,000 sports car is still a ways off, he's still grateful to make a decent living as a musician.

"I've always said as long as we can work as a band and not have a day job, I'm happy," he explains.

"I'd like to pay some bills, save some money and get some more tattoos and new clothes and stuff. We're not really complicated people. If we were, we would probably drive each other crazy."

Freeman and lead singer/songwriter Andy Hull first formed "an awful little punk-pop band" during their freshman year of high school. While that didn't last, the two continued to write music and added Robert McDowell on guitar, Jonathan Corley on bass and Jeremiah Edmond on drums.

In 2007, Manchester Orchestra released its debut album, I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child.

Freeman says the band is actually getting along better these days, thanks in part, to having their own personal space for the first time on a tour.

"We're on a bus now and that's kind of changing the way we interact with each other," he says.

"When we wake up in the morning we're not in terrible, awful hungover moods. Before we'd wake up in the motel after a horrible night's sleep and we felt like we wanted to die. Today, we just woke up about 15 minutes ago and we were like, 'Hi!' I think we're just in better moods now."