Gun (SCOTLAND)

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Gun - Frantic (2015)













Year : 2015
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Scotland
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 150 mb

Bio:

Gun is a hard rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. They are best known for the song "Better Days" as well as their cover of Cameo's "Word Up!".Originally called Blind Allez, then for a short time 'Phobia', GUN were formed in 1987 by Giuliano Gizzi (guitar) and Cami Morlotti (bass), with Mark Rankin (vocals), Alan Thornton (drums) and David Aitken (guitar). Signed in 1988 by A&M Records the band line-up changed after Thornton, Morlotti and Aitken parted company with them and new recruits Dante Gizzi, Scott Shields and Baby Stafford joined.In the studio, Jim McDermott (Kevin McDermott Orchestra, Simple Minds and The Silencers), provided drums on the albums Taking On the World and Gallus. Debut album Taking On the World was also released this year.Rankin's cousin Sharleen Spiteri, of fellow Scottish band Texas and ex drummer Thornton contributed backing vocals to several songs on the album. The single "Better Days" from the album made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.Gun toured the US and supported The Rolling Stones on their European Urban Jungle Tour of 1990. Tours with Bon Jovi and Def Leppard followed shortly after.October 2014 will see the release of a 25th anniversary of their first album Taking on the World. This is a 3 disc special edition release with b-sides, live tracks, and other songs for fans. In November 2014, Gun will play 3 consecutive sold out nights at King Tut's WahWah Hut in Glasgow. The first show will have the band playing their first album, "Taking On The World", in its entirety. The second night, they will play the album "Gallus". The third night, they will play the album "Swagger". Giuliano Gizzi thanked fans for their support and proceeds from the shows will provide a fantastic contribution to the Sunday Mail Centenary Fund.On 1 December 2014 the band announced on their website that new album Frantic would be released in the UK on 23 March 2015 in both physical and digital formats with various pre-order bonuses available before 1 February.

Album:

GUN are back! After winning the MTV EMA Award last November, now comes the new album "Frantic".GUN's contemporary and authentic rock has always been an advantage over their counterparts in the late 80s. In Glasgow, founded by brothers Gizzi, they came to the rock to reinvent itself.In September 2010, "Taking On The World" was listed in the Classic Rock magazine's list of the 150 Greatest debut albums of all time. And the Kerrang Magazine gave the album 5 stars, and then wrote: "The acquisition of the rock world with this album would be no real surprise," while Phil Alexander called it "... pop-rock at its finest."On their new album, there are, among other radiant »Gospel Feel Good rock and roll" like on the opener "Let It Shine" or even rough rock filled with energy and strings."We've had such a great time at the recording of this album. We believe the Gun-style in every respect more than just adequately and we hope the fans will love it, as we have just loved this album record in the studio! "

Line Up:

Dante Gizzi - Vocals
Jools Gizzi - Guitars
Paul McManus - Drums
Johnny McGlynn - Guitars
Derek Brown - Bass

Tracklist:

01. Let It Shine
02. Labour Of Life
03. Beautiful Smile
04. One Wrong Turn
05. Our Time
06. Frantic
07. Hold Your Head Up
08. Big City
09. Seraphina
10. Never Knew What I Had

+ Video "Labour Of Life" (Official Video)




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Gun - More Frantic (2CD) (Deluxe Edition) (2015)











Year : 2015
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Scotland
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 198 mb

Bio:

Gun is a hard rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. They are best known for the song "Better Days" as well as their cover of Cameo's "Word Up!".Originally called Blind Allez, then for a short time 'Phobia', GUN were formed in 1987 by Giuliano Gizzi (guitar) and Cami Morlotti (bass), with Mark Rankin (vocals), Alan Thornton (drums) and David Aitken (guitar). Signed in 1988 by A&M Records the band line-up changed after Thornton, Morlotti and Aitken parted company with them and new recruits Dante Gizzi, Scott Shields and Baby Stafford joined.In the studio, Jim McDermott (Kevin McDermott Orchestra, Simple Minds and The Silencers), provided drums on the albums Taking On the World and Gallus. Debut album Taking On the World was also released this year.Rankin's cousin Sharleen Spiteri, of fellow Scottish band Texas and ex drummer Thornton contributed backing vocals to several songs on the album. The single "Better Days" from the album made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.Gun toured the US and supported The Rolling Stones on their European Urban Jungle Tour of 1990. Tours with Bon Jovi and Def Leppard followed shortly after.October 2014 will see the release of a 25th anniversary of their first album Taking on the World. This is a 3 disc special edition release with b-sides, live tracks, and other songs for fans. In November 2014, Gun will play 3 consecutive sold out nights at King Tut's WahWah Hut in Glasgow. The first show will have the band playing their first album, "Taking On The World", in its entirety. The second night, they will play the album "Gallus". The third night, they will play the album "Swagger". Giuliano Gizzi thanked fans for their support and proceeds from the shows will provide a fantastic contribution to the Sunday Mail Centenary Fund.On 1 December 2014 the band announced on their website that new album Frantic would be released in the UK on 23 March 2015 in both physical and digital formats with various pre-order bonuses available before 1 February.

Album:

Scottish rockers GUN released their new album 'Frantic' early this year, also in a deluxe edition featuring a bonus disc with songs recorded live. But the band is presenting now a new version of the album, re-entitled "More Frantic".
"More Frantic" - a digital only release - includes all original Frantic tracks, plus 10 bonuses including the 'East End EP’ and the new single 'Every1's A Winner'.'Every1's A Winner' is one of the best tracks composed & recorded by Gun in the last two decades. It's a rocking, guitar driven hard rocker plenty of swagger and catchiness.'Idiots' is another good one in the classic early Gun style, while '100 MPH' adds some cool acoustics in a bluesy vein. There's nice live cuts too, and a better than the original 'Frantic' radion mix.Not only a fan package, I think "More Frantic" works better than the regular Frantic version as the 10 bonuses are a worthwhile addition, featuring strong songs and variation.

Line Up:

Dante Gizzi - Vocals
Jools Gizzi - Guitars
Paul McManus - Drums
Johnny McGlynn - Guitars
Derek Brown - Bass

Tracklist:

01. Let It Shine (3:16)
02. Labour Of Life (4:03)
03. Beautiful Smile (3:29)
04. One Wrong Turn (3:26)
05. Our Time (3:52)
06. Frantic (3:45)
07. Hold Your Head Up (3:50)
08. Big City (4:10)
09. Seraphina (4:21)
10. Never Knew What I Had (5:16)

Bonus Tracks:

11. Every 1's A Winner (3:47)
12. Idiots (3:34)
13. Everybody Knows (4:24)
14. 100 Mph (3:18)
15. Labour Of Life (Live) (4:59)
16. Frantic (Radio Mix) (3:42)
17. One Wrong Turn (Radio Mix) (3:21)
18. Take Me To Church (3:57)
19. Frantic (Acoustic) (4:23)
20. Inside Out (Live) (7:01)




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Gun - Favourite Pleasures (Deluxe Edition) (2017)











Year : 2017
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Scotland
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 131 mb

Bio:

Gun is a hard rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. They are best known for the song "Better Days" as well as their cover of Cameo's "Word Up!".Originally called Blind Allez, then for a short time 'Phobia', GUN were formed in 1987 by Giuliano Gizzi (guitar) and Cami Morlotti (bass), with Mark Rankin (vocals), Alan Thornton (drums) and David Aitken (guitar). Signed in 1988 by A&M Records the band line-up changed after Thornton, Morlotti and Aitken parted company with them and new recruits Dante Gizzi, Scott Shields and Baby Stafford joined.In the studio, Jim McDermott (Kevin McDermott Orchestra, Simple Minds and The Silencers), provided drums on the albums Taking On the World and Gallus. Debut album Taking On the World was also released this year.Rankin's cousin Sharleen Spiteri, of fellow Scottish band Texas and ex drummer Thornton contributed backing vocals to several songs on the album. The single "Better Days" from the album made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.Gun toured the US and supported The Rolling Stones on their European Urban Jungle Tour of 1990. Tours with Bon Jovi and Def Leppard followed shortly after.October 2014 will see the release of a 25th anniversary of their first album Taking on the World. This is a 3 disc special edition release with b-sides, live tracks, and other songs for fans. In November 2014, Gun will play 3 consecutive sold out nights at King Tut's WahWah Hut in Glasgow. The first show will have the band playing their first album, "Taking On The World", in its entirety. The second night, they will play the album "Gallus". The third night, they will play the album "Swagger". Giuliano Gizzi thanked fans for their support and proceeds from the shows will provide a fantastic contribution to the Sunday Mail Centenary Fund.On 1 December 2014 the band announced on their website that new album Frantic would be released in the UK on 23 March 2015 in both physical and digital formats with various pre-order bonuses available before 1 February.

Album:

Dante and the boys are back. In every sense ...Although you hate to harp on about the past, sometimes there’s no choice.Take Gun for example. In the late 80s they emerged with a record called Takin’ On The Wold” which put them squarely amongst the best that British Rock had at the time. That was a golden period as well. Thunder, The Almighty, Little Angels and The Quireboys were all around, but such was the quality of the songs on the album.Real, genuine mainstream success followed too. The cover of “Word Up” appeared on the “Swagger” record (which as an aside contains one of the greatest hard rock songs ever written by a British band in “Don’t Say It’s Over”) then it all kinda ground to a halt.There were a couple of patchy albums then the inevitable break-up and reformation. Their output since they came back hasn’t quite matched up with their early material. Largely, perhaps because they weren’t ever quite sure what they wanted to be.Gun were always proud of the “pop” in their pop rock but the “Popkiller” mini-album, which featured Toby Jepson on lead vocals, was, well, a little too poppy, a trap that the most recent “Frantic” record also fell in to.Now, though, with “Favourite Pleasures” they are back – and brother, they sound like Gun again.“She Knows” punches you in the face by way of a hello, and in so doing sounds more urgent and effervescent than anything they’ve managed in years. “Here’s Where I Am” is as an unashamed a glam rock stomper as you can get and is surely made for the live arena, and if there’s a bit of a funkiness to the cheeky title track, then consider this, it’s the happiest song about S&M you’ll find anywhere.If those are the first three out of the way and all so far so good then, there is always the worry about whether it can be sustained over a full album. No such concerns here as “Take Me Down” sees Jools Gizzi cut loose on a solo that could have come straight from the 80s as if to say “yeah, its all good this time.”There is little doubt that the presence of new guitarist Tommy Gentry has breathed new life into the band – put simply they haven’t sounded as gleeful as they do on “Silent Lovers” in years. And if “Black Heart” with its strident groove is a little heavier, then it is still brilliantly well placed.“Without You In My Life” is mid-paced but builds itself up nicely – never turning into the huge ballad you almost expected. It’s not that kind of album. “Tragic Heroes” is a real highlight too, capturing the essence of what we might call the mid-paced Gun sound, and the line about “don’t trust a man who says he’ll make you rich, before you know it, you’ll have nothing to show for it…” just might be more heartfelt than most.An album that is full of three-minute rock songs has one that literally is. “Go To Hell” is 180 seconds of an angry screecher of a thing that shows the fire still burns, but oddly amongst all the bluster it is the piano based closer that really re-affirms just how good they are here.“Boy Who Fooled The World” reveals a more personal side to the band than you might expect and casts frontman Dante Gizzi as a kid listening to the radio on a Friday night and it will strike a chord with anyone who sat there with their “fingers on play and record…listening for the next big thing.”MV knows the feeling. That’s what I did. And one of the bands I discovered on the Friday Rock Show late one teenage night under the covers with a radio my gran had bought me was Gun.An album that wants to be catchy and have big old hooks you could hang things on, “Favourite Pleasures” is exactly what you want from Gun. As a result, arguably for the first time in 23 years we’ve got a great Gun album.

Line Up:

Dante Gizzi - Vocals
Jools Gizzi - Guitars
Paul McManus - Drums
Johnny McGlynn - Guitars
Derek Brown - Bass

Tracklist:

01. She Knows
02. Here’s Where I Am
03. Favourite Pleasures
04. Take Me Down
05. Silent Lovers
06. Black Heart
07. Without You In My Life
08. Tragic Heroes
09. Go To Hell
10. The Boy Who Fooled The World
11. (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) (Bonus Track)
12. 20 Storeys (Bonus Track)
13. Come Undone (Bonus Track)
14. All I Really Need (Bonus Track)




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Gun - R3L0aded (The Best Of) (2CD) (2019)









Year : 2019
Style : Hard Rock
Country : Scotland
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 185 mb

Bio:

Gun is a hard rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. They are best known for the song "Better Days" as well as their cover of Cameo's "Word Up!".Originally called Blind Allez, then for a short time 'Phobia', GUN were formed in 1987 by Giuliano Gizzi (guitar) and Cami Morlotti (bass), with Mark Rankin (vocals), Alan Thornton (drums) and David Aitken (guitar). Signed in 1988 by A&M Records the band line-up changed after Thornton, Morlotti and Aitken parted company with them and new recruits Dante Gizzi, Scott Shields and Baby Stafford joined.In the studio, Jim McDermott (Kevin McDermott Orchestra, Simple Minds and The Silencers), provided drums on the albums Taking On the World and Gallus. Debut album Taking On the World was also released this year.Rankin's cousin Sharleen Spiteri, of fellow Scottish band Texas and ex drummer Thornton contributed backing vocals to several songs on the album. The single "Better Days" from the album made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.Gun toured the US and supported The Rolling Stones on their European Urban Jungle Tour of 1990. Tours with Bon Jovi and Def Leppard followed shortly after.October 2014 will see the release of a 25th anniversary of their first album Taking on the World. This is a 3 disc special edition release with b-sides, live tracks, and other songs for fans. In November 2014, Gun will play 3 consecutive sold out nights at King Tut's WahWah Hut in Glasgow. The first show will have the band playing their first album, "Taking On The World", in its entirety. The second night, they will play the album "Gallus". The third night, they will play the album "Swagger". Giuliano Gizzi thanked fans for their support and proceeds from the shows will provide a fantastic contribution to the Sunday Mail Centenary Fund.On 1 December 2014 the band announced on their website that new album Frantic would be released in the UK on 23 March 2015 in both physical and digital formats with various pre-order bonuses available before 1 February.

Album:

Scottish cult rockers GUN are releasing “R3L0ADED” a celebration of 30 years of GUN in a deluxe 2-CD package covering a selection of the band’s hit singles alongside a bonus CD of specially recorded cover versions from artists such as The Clash, Blondie, Stevie Wonder, Beastie Boys, Hot Chocolate and more, all Gun-ized of course.And the record hits stores before Gun join Dan Reed Network & FM on a nationwide trek playing their album ‘Taking On The World’ in its entirety.For many, “R3L0ADED” will be the soundtrack to a lot of good times of their youth. In 1989, Gun were taking on the world, and still are.Indeed, their album ‘Taking On The World’ really put Gun on the map. According to the band, thirty years ago their dream was simply to sign a record deal, release an album and maybe go on tour, no more than that.That’s the reason of “R3L0ADED”; their best shots into an album to say thanks to the fans and bring back some memories.“R3L0ADED” is presented as a double album with disc one featuring singles from the band’s seven albums including debut chart hit Better Days (1989), Steal Your Fire (1992), Don’t Say It’s Over (1994) and Favourite Pleasures (2017).Disc two is a collection of cover songs from the band’s favorites, which includes ‘Word Up by Cameo (1986)’, for which the band won the prestigious MTV Europe Music Award for Best Cover.Among others, Gun have recorded their own versions of ‘Every 1’s A Winner’ by Hot Chocolate (1978), ‘(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)’ by The Beastie Boys (1986), ‘Union City Blue’ by Blondie (1979), ‘Rock The Casbah by The Clash (1982)’, and more.All rockin’ with that special Gun touch and style.

Line Up:

Dante Gizzi – Vocals
Jools Gizzi – Guitar
Tommy Gentry – Guitar
Andy Carr – Bass
Paul McManus – Drums

Tracklist:

CD1:

01. Don't Say It's Over
02. Better Days
03. Break the Silence
04. Higher Ground
05. Something Worthwhile
06. Crazy You
07. Take Me Down
08. Steal Your Fire
09. Favourite Pleasures
10.Taking On The World

CD2:

01. (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)
02. Every 1's a Winner
03. Superstition
04. Union City Blue
05. Word Up
06. Success
07. Rock the Kasbah
08. Take Me To Church
09. Everybody Knows
10. Diamonds




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Gun - The Calton Songs (2022)









Year : 2022
Style : Hard Rock
Country : Scotland
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 130 mb

Bio:

Gun is a hard rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. They are best known for the song "Better Days" as well as their cover of Cameo's "Word Up!".Originally called Blind Allez, then for a short time 'Phobia', GUN were formed in 1987 by Giuliano Gizzi (guitar) and Cami Morlotti (bass), with Mark Rankin (vocals), Alan Thornton (drums) and David Aitken (guitar). Signed in 1988 by A&M Records the band line-up changed after Thornton, Morlotti and Aitken parted company with them and new recruits Dante Gizzi, Scott Shields and Baby Stafford joined.In the studio, Jim McDermott (Kevin McDermott Orchestra, Simple Minds and The Silencers), provided drums on the albums Taking On the World and Gallus. Debut album Taking On the World was also released this year.Rankin's cousin Sharleen Spiteri, of fellow Scottish band Texas and ex drummer Thornton contributed backing vocals to several songs on the album. The single "Better Days" from the album made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.Gun toured the US and supported The Rolling Stones on their European Urban Jungle Tour of 1990. Tours with Bon Jovi and Def Leppard followed shortly after.October 2014 will see the release of a 25th anniversary of their first album Taking on the World. This is a 3 disc special edition release with b-sides, live tracks, and other songs for fans. In November 2014, Gun will play 3 consecutive sold out nights at King Tut's WahWah Hut in Glasgow. The first show will have the band playing their first album, "Taking On The World", in its entirety. The second night, they will play the album "Gallus". The third night, they will play the album "Swagger". Giuliano Gizzi thanked fans for their support and proceeds from the shows will provide a fantastic contribution to the Sunday Mail Centenary Fund.On 1 December 2014 the band announced on their website that new album Frantic would be released in the UK on 23 March 2015 in both physical and digital formats with various pre-order bonuses available before 1 February.

Album:

Welcome to The Calton. The Calton District in Glasgow’s East End has always been home to Jools and Dante from GUN.In their parents’ spare bedroom just a stone’s throw from Glasgow’s famous Barrowland Ballroom, the boys fashioned their songwriting skills alongside former GUN lead singer Mark Rankin.The Calton Songs is a fourteen-track celebration of GUN’s classic hits and favourites - semi-acoustic versions of what appeared through the years as full-on rock tracks.The songs feature all the current band’s line-up plus some amazing backing singing from Beverley Skeete and The Sisterhood, giving a gospel slant and an original spin to these rock classics.Barring Word Up, the other thirteen songs were inspired by the sights and sounds of The Calton.Recorded initially by Dante in the spare bedroom, the songs were completed after the lockdown situation ended in January 2022 in Glasgow’s Morsecode studios.

Line Up:

Dante Gizzi – Vocals
Jools Gizzi – Guitar
Tommy Gentry – Guitar
Andy Carr – Bass
Paul McManus – Drums

Tracklist:

01. Backstreet Brothers
02. Better Days
03. Coming Home
04. Steal Your Fire
05. Word Up
06. Frantic
07. Taking On The World
08. Crazy You
09. Money
10. Shame On You
11. Don’t Say It’s Over
12. Inside Out
13. Higher Ground
14. Watching The World Go By




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Gun - Hombres (2024)









Year : 2024
Style : Hard Rock
Country : Scotland
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 101 mb

Bio:

Gun is a hard rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. They are best known for the song "Better Days" as well as their cover of Cameo's "Word Up!".Originally called Blind Allez, then for a short time 'Phobia', GUN were formed in 1987 by Giuliano Gizzi (guitar) and Cami Morlotti (bass), with Mark Rankin (vocals), Alan Thornton (drums) and David Aitken (guitar). Signed in 1988 by A&M Records the band line-up changed after Thornton, Morlotti and Aitken parted company with them and new recruits Dante Gizzi, Scott Shields and Baby Stafford joined.In the studio, Jim McDermott (Kevin McDermott Orchestra, Simple Minds and The Silencers), provided drums on the albums Taking On the World and Gallus. Debut album Taking On the World was also released this year.Rankin's cousin Sharleen Spiteri, of fellow Scottish band Texas and ex drummer Thornton contributed backing vocals to several songs on the album. The single "Better Days" from the album made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.Gun toured the US and supported The Rolling Stones on their European Urban Jungle Tour of 1990. Tours with Bon Jovi and Def Leppard followed shortly after.October 2014 will see the release of a 25th anniversary of their first album Taking on the World. This is a 3 disc special edition release with b-sides, live tracks, and other songs for fans. In November 2014, Gun will play 3 consecutive sold out nights at King Tut's WahWah Hut in Glasgow. The first show will have the band playing their first album, "Taking On The World", in its entirety. The second night, they will play the album "Gallus". The third night, they will play the album "Swagger". Giuliano Gizzi thanked fans for their support and proceeds from the shows will provide a fantastic contribution to the Sunday Mail Centenary Fund.On 1 December 2014 the band announced on their website that new album Frantic would be released in the UK on 23 March 2015 in both physical and digital formats with various pre-order bonuses available before 1 February.

Album:

MTV EMA award winners GUN were formed in Scotland by guitarist Giuliano Gizzi. During the career GUN has achieved 3 UK top 20 albums and 8 UK top 40 singles, including a cover of Cameo's "Word Up", which reached the UK top 10 and charted all over Europe. GUN has toured extensively over the years, most notably with The Rolling Stones on their Steel Wheels & Urban Jungle tours. The band embarks on the release of the latest studio album "Hombres", as featured heavily in the upcoming Samuel L. Jackson film Damaged, filmed and produced in the band's native Scotland. With the recording and production with Simon Bloor (Trevor Horn) complete and mixed by Daryl Thorpe (Foo Fighters), the first single "All Fired Up" will be released in late 2023, with the full album coming in spring 2024 on Music Week label of the year 2022 shortlist nominee Cooking Vinyl Records.

Line Up:

Dante Gizzi – Vocals
Jools Gizzi – Guitar
Tommy Gentry – Guitar
Andy Carr – Bass
Paul McManus – Drums

Tracklist:

01. All Fired Up
02. Boys Don't Cry
03. Take Me Back Home
04. Fake Life
05. Falling
06. You Are What I Need
07. Never Enough
08. Don't Hide Your Fears Tonight
09. Lucky Guy
10. A Shift In Time




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Gun - Hombres (Deluxe Edition Digipak) (2024)











Year : 2024
Style : Hard Rock
Country : Scotland
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 108 mb

Bio:

Gun is a hard rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. They are best known for the song "Better Days" as well as their cover of Cameo's "Word Up!".Originally called Blind Allez, then for a short time 'Phobia', GUN were formed in 1987 by Giuliano Gizzi (guitar) and Cami Morlotti (bass), with Mark Rankin (vocals), Alan Thornton (drums) and David Aitken (guitar). Signed in 1988 by A&M Records the band line-up changed after Thornton, Morlotti and Aitken parted company with them and new recruits Dante Gizzi, Scott Shields and Baby Stafford joined.In the studio, Jim McDermott (Kevin McDermott Orchestra, Simple Minds and The Silencers), provided drums on the albums Taking On the World and Gallus. Debut album Taking On the World was also released this year.Rankin's cousin Sharleen Spiteri, of fellow Scottish band Texas and ex drummer Thornton contributed backing vocals to several songs on the album. The single "Better Days" from the album made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.Gun toured the US and supported The Rolling Stones on their European Urban Jungle Tour of 1990. Tours with Bon Jovi and Def Leppard followed shortly after.October 2014 will see the release of a 25th anniversary of their first album Taking on the World. This is a 3 disc special edition release with b-sides, live tracks, and other songs for fans. In November 2014, Gun will play 3 consecutive sold out nights at King Tut's WahWah Hut in Glasgow. The first show will have the band playing their first album, "Taking On The World", in its entirety. The second night, they will play the album "Gallus". The third night, they will play the album "Swagger". Giuliano Gizzi thanked fans for their support and proceeds from the shows will provide a fantastic contribution to the Sunday Mail Centenary Fund.On 1 December 2014 the band announced on their website that new album Frantic would be released in the UK on 23 March 2015 in both physical and digital formats with various pre-order bonuses available before 1 February.

Album:

Eighties Scottish hard rock / pop rockers GUN surprised a few weeks ago with perhaps their best album to date: “Hombres“. This Deluxe Edition digipak includes bonus tracks, songs recorded during the album sessions, and a different cover art.Indeed, “Hombres” is the best LP the group has recorded since the ’80s. It’s that good. It’s a brilliant record – comfortably their best for three decades, and if you missed the melodies, hooks and catchy choruses of their classic album ‘Gallus’, now these are back!”Hombres” shows that Gun is still far away from retirement. The spirit of rock’n’roll is what keeps the guys young at heart and it is their ninth album that in a way connects to the early days. GUN has combined all their strengths and stringed them together which leads to a lively, emotional and catchy hard rock release that provides a great time.”Hombres” is easily GUN’s strongest album since their 2009 reformation. Whereas Break The Silence, Frantic, and 2017’s Favourite Pleasures had some great songs on them, they also had their patchy moments. Their frequent dabbling with covers and reworkings almost made you doubt that they could hit the levels of former glories again.Well, they have, and then some.”Hombres” is packed with high-quality classic hard rock / melodic songs throughout. It’s an album that quite comfortably sits alongside the likes of Taking On The World, Gallus, and Swagger, their first three, still superb, albums.Founding brothers Dante and Giuliano Gizzi claim that they needed to make an album “that would save the band…and save themselves”, and they’ve certainly bullseyed that target. Indeed, the first single All Fired Up serves as both a powerful introduction to the album and also provides a mission statement. Indeed, it fizzes out of the traps, a hooky rocker with a great sing-along chorus. As if to hammer home this message, Boys Don’t Cry and Take Me Back Home continues in a similar vein without stopping for breath.At the same time as featuring powerful, very well-produced rockers, this album’s strength lies in the diversity of influences and music on offer. They have broadened their sound and the album is all the better for it.In particular, the back-to-back combination of Falling, and You Are What I Need lift this album to higher ground, no GUN related pun intended. The former is a memorable pop-rocker, with an almost balladic quality. It has a real hypnotic quality as the song builds. There is also a gospel feel to it, as does You Are What I Need. The combination of backing vocalists and a great bluesy rock track works perfectly.Lucky Guy is an instant favorite. It’s a catchy, glam-influenced track, that has a real earworm of a chorus. Indeed, it’s instantly familiar, which is the sign of a great song, isn’t it? Like a lot of songs here, you can tell it’s going to transfer to the live arena with ease.Were this album to have been released thirty years ago, they’d have had a few big hit singles on their hands that’s for sure. The album properly wraps up on the anthemic A Shift In Time. Indeed, it bookends things perfectly. It has a great singalong, again almost gospel quality, and yet another memorable chorus.Since getting back together fifteen years ago, GUN have been threatening to release an album this strong, where the quality doesn’t let up throughout. The three preceding albums were good, but not up there to their early albums’, albeit very high, bar.This time they have matched those levels. We dare to say “Hombres” is their best album ever, as takes the best from the band’s early LPs and adds the maturity that only comes with age.Welcome back guys, it’s been a long time coming!

Line Up:

Dante Gizzi – Vocals
Jools Gizzi – Guitar
Tommy Gentry – Guitar
Andy Carr – Bass
Paul McManus – Drums

Tracklist:

01. All Fired Up
02. Boys Don't Cry
03. Take Me Back Home
04. Fake Life
05. Falling
06. You Are What I Need
07. Never Enough
08. Don't Hide Your Fears Tonight
09. Lucky Guy
10. A Shift In Time
11. Coming Back To You (Bonus Track)
12. Wrong To Be Right (Bonus Track)
13. Pride (Bonus Track)




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