The Young Guns do not face an easy task taking on this patriotic crowd of Bostonians- they are are opening for Breaking Benjamin and the Red Sox are playing over the road at Fenway Stadium. These are only two of the challenges Gustav Wood and his band face tonight. But unphased, no, ecstatic, the Young Guns are pleased to be here, to perform to this music-loving, though at first apprehensive crowd.
Letting the audience know how privileged he is to be here, Gustav admits to being „an Englishman who doesn’t understand baseball anyway“ and instantly blows this crowd away with some of their newer songs from their album ‘Ones and Zeros’, including current single ‘Rising Up’, the chanted lyrics echoing all the way to Fenway. The Muse like intro to ‘Daylight’ makes the females in the crowd all emotional, only to be thrown back into a really fun rock experience. The American audience is literally blown away by this Englishman and his energy, albeit they face another challenge tonight, as they are reduced to only four. Simon Mitchell is replaced by a laptop, as the bassist is attending his sister’s wedding. But even when the bass track is lost for a few seconds, the four band members play their hearts out.
And that’s Young Guns for you in a nutshell. Brotherhood, love of music and at the same time humility: “Is this real? Boston- thank you so much!” Gustav shouts and closes the show with “Bones”. The audience go wild with frenzy. If they didn’t know the Young Guns before, they do now.
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