Young Guns

Young Guns are a British rock band from Buckinghamshire and London. They have emerged as one of the UK's most electrifying new bands, garnering heavy radio play and UK chart success, while playing to packed-house crowds all across Europe, including a main stage performance at the Reading Festival, where they tore up the stage as part of a lineup that included Arcade Fire, Queens of the Stone Age, Guns N' Roses and Modest Mouse. They released their debut EP in June 2009 entitled Mirrors, and their debut album All Our Kings Are Dead was released a year later in July 2010. The success of the album and its singles to date has resulted in magazine covers, the band playing sell-out headline tours, as well as landing high profile support slots with Bon Jovi and Lostprophets.

Their new album Bones released in the US on September 4th, has already achieved critical acclaim overseas, with Q Magazine and Kerrang! each giving it four stars and the latter writing that the album sees the band "giving themselves the best shot possible of taking on all comers and winning." Bones and it's title track were also nominated for "Best Album" and "Best Single" as part of this year's 2012 Kerrang! Awards. The album was written over a number of months in places ranging from Thailand to Spain to a shed in the band's hometown of High Wycombe, UK. Bones 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 style.

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