Welcome to The Calton. The Calton District in Glasgow’s East End has always been home to Jools and Dante from Gun. In their parents’ spare bedroom just a stone’s throw from Glasgow’s famous Barrowland Ballroom, the boys fashioned their songwriting skills alongside former Gun lead singer Mark Rankin.

The Calton Songs is a fourteen-track celebration of Gun’s classic hits and favorites – semi-acoustic versions of what appeared through the years as full-on rock tracks.

Another CD edition of this album also comes signed by the band and the album is also available on double red vinyl, cassette and digital formats.

The songs feature all the current band’s line-up plus some amazing backing singing from Beverley Skeete and The Sisterhood, giving a gospel slant and an original spin to these rock classics.

Barring Word Up, the other thirteen songs were inspired by the sights and sounds of The Calton.

Recorded initially by Dante in the spare bedroom, the songs were completed after the lockdown situation ended in January 2022 in Glasgow’s Morsecode studios.

Gun will be touring this fantastic album with the full band and doing some acoustic shows in the months ahead.

1. Backstreet Brothers
2. Better Days
3. Coming Home
4. Steal Your Fire
5. Word Up
6. Frantic
7. Taking On The World
8. Crazy You
9. Money
10. Shame On You
11. Don’t Say It’s Over
12. Inside Out
13. Higher Ground
14. Watching The World Go By

Here on this wildly brilliant new album from Gun, and one that re-imagines all their classic hits and live favorites, this time through the spyglass of some highly inventive semi-acoustic renditions, they open on the thumping rock of Backstreet Brothers and the acoustically-charged Better Days (2021) and then back those up with the euphorically-charged Coming Home, the euphoric reach within Steal Your Fire, a simply sensational version of Cameo’s Word Up and then bring us the free flowing Frantic and the acoustically low slung Taking On The World.

Next up is the foot-tapping Crazy You and the fervently-inspired hand and thigh-clapper Money and they are followed seamlessly by the guitar rocker Shame On You, the mid-tempo balladry of Don’t Say It’s Over, the gently pulsating Inside Out, the album rounding out all too soon on the slowed down, rhythmically melodic Higher Ground and the slow rock roll of Watching The World Go By.

Gun - Coming Home (ft.The Sisterhood) [Official Lyrics Video]

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