Young Guns: "It’s a new chapter"

Young Guns are back! They may be a man down following the departure of drummer Ben Jolliffe but, as their Slam Dunk shows proved, they’re still swinging. “We haven’t played in six months so there’s that slight element of ‘is anyone going to turn up? Is anyone going to be there?’” admits Simon Mitchell. Turns out their worries were unfounded. “We had an absolute packed crowd. It was amazing.” “We’re built to be busy,” he continues. “We’re built to be busy and when we’re not doing stuff, it feels weird. We don’t like it so even if it seems like we’re not around, we’re always getting on with something. It’s never a dull day in the Young Guns camp,” he teases, which leads us on nicely to that new album. “Basically, in that six months, we’ve gone away and written it, we’ve recorded it and we’re just getting the mixes back now. We couldn’t be happier about the new stuff. I absolutely love it.” The record is inspired by “things that have happened in our lives over the past three years. The last record we released was ‘Ones and Zeroes’ and it’s amazing what can happen in that short space of time that can influence an album straight away. So, there’s more honesty in the lyrics and that comes from certain experiences we’ve had in the past few months but done in a way that’s relatable. People can find their own way of relating to the lyrics.” “It’s a slightly different direction in terms of lyrical content. The last record was more universal whereas this one, it’s a little more honest. That comes across, that’s definitely a theme for the record.”