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Young Guns Post European Tour Updates

Last month's cover stars are currently roaming around Scandinavia and keeping us all updated on their progress. Rough summary: touring is fun, bread is alarmingly expensive.

You could make a claim for Young Guns being the breakout band of the year, right? Yeah, they've been bubbling over for a while everything certainly seems to have gone that little bit extra batshit for them since playing the Reading and Leeds main stage.

One of the things we love about them is that they don't like doing things the easy way. Rather than playing it safe they decided to have an adventure and play to a whole new world of people by supporting weathered rockers Danko Jones in Europe before returning to the UK for a headline run towards the end of the year, and the band are posting constant updates from the road.

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Here's frontman Gus Wood reflecting on their first performance of the tour, in Stockholm:

"We don’t really get nervous (some of the things we’ve done this year pretty much hammered the nerves out of us) but we aren’t really sure what Danko Jones fans are going to make of us so we take to the stage half not expecting anybody to turn their head our way. The crowd is lively and ready for a good night so it works out fine and we flop onto the couches upstairs afterwards tired and sweaty but pleased. 28 more to go!

One of the reasons we were so excited about the idea of doing the Danko Jones tour (apart from visiting all these great countries and actually getting to tour with a cool band) was the idea that we would be playing to an entirely new bunch of people, which is something we’re all really keen on doing. We see making our way over to Europe as in some ways starting again, but in a good way. We’ve been lucky enough to have a great year at home in the UK, and we are appreciative of that but we also want to take our band as far and wide as we can. Europe is a big part of that, and just like at home where we built things up one person at a time, we aim to try and play hard, play well, and to get people to listen to our music that maybe wouldn’t otherwise do so. I hope (and think) that there is something in our music for different generations, genders, and any other divide you care to mention."

Click here to go to Young Guns' blog and read the rest of the updates.