aaamusic | On 17, Nov 2011

YOUNG GUNS are proud to announce their first headline tour of 2012 and their first in support of forthcoming second album, ‘Bones’. “To kick off the ‘Bones’ touring cycle we thought it would be cool to go back to where we started,” explains vocalist Gustav Wood. “We ended the first album cycle on a real high, playing venues and stages we’d always dreamed of, but this record is a rebirth for us, and with that in mind we’re heading back for a special one off tour of the small venues we cut our teeth in. No fancy stage set up, no fancy lighting (we don’t get on well with that anyway! See – London Forum) just us, you and a chance to have a really memorable intimate night. We’re pumped and you should be too. This is a one off tour with not many tickets available, once they’re gone, they’re gone, so get them now!”

The ‘Bare Bones Club Tour’ sees the band play the following venues:

FEBRUARY 2012
02 – HIGH WYCOMBE, Bucks University
03 – LEEDS, The Well
04 – LIVERPOOL, Masque Loft
06 – GLASGOW, King Tuts
07 – SHEFFIELD, Corporation 2
08 – MANCHESTER, Deaf Institute
09 – NOTTINGHAM, Rescue Rooms
11 – BRIGHTON, The Haunt
12 – KINGSTON, Fighting Cocks (Matinee Show)
13 – PONTYPRIDD, Muni Arts Centre
14 – SALTASH, Livewire
15 – BATH, Moles
17 – DUBLIN, Academy 2 (Matinee Show)
18 – BELFAST, Speakeasy (Matinee Show)

Pre-sale tickets and album bundles for the tour are available exclusively from www.weareyoungguns.com from Thursday 17th November at 9am, before going on general sale on Friday 25th November at 9am.

Strength comes from our bones – the knowledge that, deep down, nothing is impossible. ‘Bones’, the stunning new album from Young Guns, captures exactly that: it’s a hymn to bravery and boldness, the defining statement so far from one of our finest bands.

“We’ve written something that I feel happy describing as ‘brave’,” says frontman Gustav Wood, “and it will challenge a lot of people’s preconceptions about what sort of band we are. It’s an ambitious record, and we have the ambition to match the sound.”

Written over a number of months everywhere from Thailand to Spain to a shed in the band’s hometown of High Wycombe, ‘Bones’ (recorded at Karma Sound Studio in Bang Saray, Thailand and subsequently mastered to tape) marks Young Guns’ transition from a band packed with potential to bonafide contenders for the title of Britain’s best. It’s a stirring album full of contradictions – it speaks of strength and vulnerability, friendship and loss, energetic youth and heavy-hearted experience – that proudly displays Wood, John Taylor (guitar), Fraser Taylor (guitar), Simon Mitchell (bass) and Ben Jolliffe (drums)’s skyscraping vision, and in some style.

“When you’re writing an album you need to believe that what you’re doing is the most important thing in the world,” continues Gustav. “And this feels like it is. It feels like we’ve achieved something.”