Being told on April Fool's Day that they'd been picked to play Reading Festival was always bound to raise eyebrows among Young Guns. When the news was delivered on April 1, 2010, that they would join the likes of Guns n Roses on the main stage, the band assumed it was a joke.
But when the five-piece from High Wycombe stepped out in front of the 40,000 strong Reading crowd later that summer, lifelong dreams came true.
Bass player Simon Mitchell called the experience 'amazing'.
"All five of us grew up going to Reading Festival religiously every year so it was a huge deal for us," he said.
"We were half really excited and half super nervous."
The 27-year-old was speaking from Marlow, the hometown of bandmate Ben Jolliffe, where the group is now busily preparing for the launch of its second album.
Their album Bones is out on February 6, and will be accompanied by the Bare Bones Club Tour; 13 dates which kick off at Buckinghamshire New University on February 2.
"Everything is kind of geared towards that right now," Simon, who hails from Burnham and Farnham Common, explained.
The former Chalfont Community College pupil spoke about recording the 12-track album in locations including Thailand and a cabin in drummer Ben's Marlow back garden.
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