Glaswegian rockers GUN are back with the latest release from forthcoming album, The Calton Songs - an updated version of their cover of ‘Word Up’.
The track 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 is a retooled version of the evergreen Cameo hit from 1986, but now in 2022 it has been reimagined and revived once more.
The new version is a totally different beast to the one that the fans know. It also boasts the vocal talents of Beverley Skeete & The Sisterhood [ Noel Gallagher, The Chemical Brothers, Mick Jagger] and The Selecter provide some phenomenal Brass. The band are describing it as the ‘Word Up Summer Jam’ and it has all the energy that implies.
Listen to ‘Word Up Summer Jam (feat. The Sisterhood)’ by GUN on the Celtic FC Official Playlist on Spotify.
The Calton Songs is a full-blooded celebration of the band’s career so far with enthusiastic and brand new acoustic reinterpretations of the songs that made their name. These classics are 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.
As 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”. 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 album 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. The Calton Songs is the latest milestone and follows-up 2017’s Favourite Pleasures, which cracked the top 15 of the UK Album charts, making it their biggest album in almost a quarter of a century.
The band hit the road this year with Dante and Jools performing an intimate acoustic tour at seven UK venues in August, before the band reconvene for The Calton Songs Tour 2022. This takes in nine full electric gigs from to 30 Nov to 11 Dec, including a massive hometown party at the Barrowlands Ballroom.
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