Liverpool's Sound Of Guns announce new single & tour dates

Liverpool’s Sound of Guns are making headway since first causing a noise as part of the BBC’s ‘Introducing’ sessions last year.

The band will now release a new Chris Potter (U2/Verve)-mixed single Elementary of Youth on September 20th through Distiller Records.

The track will be available on 7” single / digital download and includes a new song, ‘Silent Canon’.

Written and produced themselves in their Penny Lane studio, the five-piece perfectly show off their big raucous eclectic styles on this record.

The single is taken from their recently released debut album What Came From Fire and has lofty ambitions on being the one that breaks them to the mainstream.

Their previous single Architects was play-listed on daytime Radio One and XFM. The track was also ‘Single of the week’ on Greg James radio One show.

After a summer of festival appearances (including an ‘eventful’ trip to Mallorca Rocks with The Courteeners), Sound of Guns are set to prove their rock credentials at this year’s Reading and Leeds festival before heading out on a headline tour and a run of dates with Detroit Social Club this Autumn.


Already tipped for great things from the likes the Guardian, NME and Q, frontman Andrew Metcalfe aims to sell their music as being not-your-average Scouse sound. He says:

"We didn't have any boundaries – I love the Coral, and the La's and bands like that – but in terms of the music we wanted to make, that sound didn't really appeal to us.

"We were all into The Walkmen, for example, who make a big noise. We are are also big on Led Zeppelin and The Doors, amongst others.

"I think people were expecting this typical Liverpool band, and that's why people became interested so quickly, people seem to connect with the choruses."

Sound of Guns are set for a headline tour in September/October as well as dates with Detroit Social Club (gigs marked*) in October.

The band play Liverpool's O2 Academy on October 1st.

Full live dates are:

August

28th Leeds Festival, Leeds
29th Reading Festival, Reading

September

4th Bingley Music Live, Myrtle Park
24th Peterborough Met Lounge
25th Cambridge The Portland Arms
26th Nottingham Bodega
27th Brighton Hope
29th Southampton The Joiners
30th Northampton Roadmender 3

October

1st Liverpool Academy 2
2nd Coventry Kasbah
3rd Stoke Sugarmill
4th Wrexham Central Station
6th Leicester Academy 3
7th York Fibbers
8th Birmingham Rainbow *
9th Newcastle Academy 2 *
11th Manchester Ruby Lounge*
12th London Dingwalls *
14th Sheffield Plug *
15th Glasgow King Tuts *
16th Leeds Faversham *

November

20th & 27th The Big Reunion, Skegness - w/The Courteeners and The Twang

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