GUN have festival in their sights

If any band knows a thing or two about curveballs – and how to knock ‘em out of the park – it’s Glasgow’s hard rockers GUN. Hit albums and singles, break-ups, line-up changes - they’ve done them all. Fresh from their releasing their seventh studio album they play Ramblin’ Man on the Saturday. Frontman Dante Gizzi talks cassettes, loving the festival vibe and a few big names...

We came to Ramblin’ Man

Fair last year... but we weren’t playing! We didn’t come to play, just hang out. We had a great time and we met the guys from Planet Rock and so we wanted to play this one. Festivals are brilliant. The audience is a mixed fan base. It isn’t totally your crowd but I love being able to win a festival audience over.

We recorded our album in our

own studio... it was great, a real experience. We have had other bands in there too, it was a bit of trial and error to start with. It was quite basic to begin with. I played a big part in the way the album sounded. It’s also the third album that I have recorded as a vocalist with the band. We wanted to go back to how GUN sounded in the early 1990s. We made it sound how we wanted it to sound.

We have acts we want to see if we get time at Ramblin’

Man... I want to see The Cult. We toured with them a few years back and they are really good guys. I can vividly