GUN – ‘Word Up 2022’ EP

Glaswegian rockers GUN are back with today’s release of the advance EP ”Word Up 2022”, from the forthcoming full album ‘The Calton Songs’ (Cherry Red Records, October 14).
This massive, catchy track ‘Word Up’ was originally covered by GUN in 1994, winning an MTV Europe Music Award for Best Cover and featuring on the Top 5 album ‘Swagger’. The song itself is of course a retooled version of the evergreen Cameo hit from 1986, but now in 2022 it has been reimagined and revived and sounds amazing.
New album ‘The Calton Songs’ is a full-blooded celebration of the band’s career so far, with enthusiastic and brand new acoustic re-interpretations of the songs that made their name.
The EP includes two more tracks from the upcoming CD, bolstered by ‘Backstreet Brothers’, a new and fully electric track that basks in the joys of both lives and good times shared, and brings the GUN story up to date. This fun, melodic rocking new tune worth the EP alone.

This new song version – Word Up 2022 – is a totally different beast to the one that the fans know. The track now also boasts the vocal talents of back up vocalists Beverley Skeete & The Sisterhood [Noel Gallagher, Mick Jagger], GUN are describing it as the ‘Word Up Summer Jam’ and it has all the energy that implies.

As guitarist Jools Gizzi says, “When the pandemic hit we realised that it was the perfect time to try and counteract the bleakness that was all around. It felt like we couldn’t write anything, or of course tour. Out of that darkness came a desire to completely rework these songs that we know the fans love, and bring a different, stripped down vibe”.
Frontman Dante Gizzi added, “It’s ironic that those feelings of negativity led to something so positive, a celebration of our career up to now”.

‘The Calton Songs’ takes its name from the area of Glasgow where the band grew up, and where they still write their music. These new versions of great songs are cut through with un-ironic nostalgia but this is a band with an eye on the horizon for what’s to come.
Highly Recommended

01 – Word Up 2022 (feat. The Sisterhood)
02 – Backstreet Brothers (New song 2022)
03 – Steal Your Fire 2022
04 – Better Days 2022
05 – Word Up (Original Radio Remix)
06 – Word Up (Live)

Dante Gizzi [lead vocals]
Giuliano ‘Jools’ Gizzi [guitar]
Paul McManus [drums]
Andy Carr [bass]
Tommy Gentry [guitar]

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