Ja Ja Ja London: Get to know Danish tyros Get Your Gun ahead of their free show at Old Blue Last

But they're also adding something a little more exciting than a stocking-filler with an extra free Ja Ja Ja club show the previous night, the 25th, at Old Blue Last.At this show you'll get to see Iceland's Pink Street Boys, Norway's Honningbarna and the powerful, brooding Danish act Get Your Gun.

Get Your Gun are currently a two-piece of guitarist and vocalist Andreas Westmark and his drummer brother, Simon. They formed in 2008 so it's been a long road to their debut album The Worrying Kind, a record intially released in 2014 in Scandinavia and is now getting a well-deserved UK release today via Louder Than War/Empty Tape. It's a heavy record, veering from bluesy riffs to visceral punk rock, all held together by Andreas' impassioned howl and spit of a vocal and Simon's stomping, bruising drumming. You have to see these guys live, it's really quite something.

Ahead of the show at Old Blue Last we sat down with Andreas to find out a bit more about the currently bass-less twosome...

Can you tell us who is in the band and how you got together?

Right now the band is Simon and I. We started off as a trio, but it was never really written in the stars that our first bass player would continue to play music. He quit shortly after our album was released – nothing dramatic about it. We haven't settled on a permanent member yet, but we play with different people – it might stay like this, it might not. Sometimes we play with other instruments live, but the core live sound is coming from the trio setup - guitar, bass and drums. Sonically, we try to push the limit with this simple and well known setup.

When we started playing we were very young. Growing up in a small village, like we have, it can be a bit difficult to find your place, if you're not particularly into playing football or driving scooters. So, in our search for something more, we found music, I guess. After our short flirtation with instrumental surf music of the more dark kind, we decided to make something else and I started writing some songs and began singing and it just grew from there. Grew from boredom, I guess.

Who and what influences the songs and song writing?

With our debut album my lyrics are very influenced by existentialism, but writing a song is a weird thing for me. Sometimes, when I'm zoning out with an idea, some words and sentences just pop up, and then you meditate on that and try to dig in deeper. I don't always know where it comes from and what it means at first – I just have this sensation of something resonating within me. Then I figure out what it means to me later. We never really talked that much about musical influences and I must say our knowledge of music was rather uneducated when we started – we simply didn't know that much music. We're all listening to all kinds of music now, country, rock, world music and I think everything crawls under your skin. I never really understood why a lot of journalists mention Nick Cave, when they hear our music. I don't think the music sounds the same at all. He's a great artist, his music just doesn't touch me the same way as, for example, Townes Van Zandt's music does. The first time I heard him was a real punch to the stomach! And yeah, I guess the twangy guitar sound of surf music is hard for me to let go as well!

Is there a story behind the album title?

Well, The Worrying Kind is me – or a part of me. And probably also a part of a lot of other people, I think! It was also a sentence that popped up and I just think it contains a lot of power. At least for me. I like lyrics that dare to take a stand, but also leave room for the listener/reader.

You have a face which appears on the album cover and on one of your singles - what's the story there?

Some stones are best left unturned

It's been a year since the album was released in Europe, is it strange to still be playing and talking about these songs?

Yes! Well, talking about it definitely is. But I feel we just get deeper into the material and we keep improving the songs, making small changes, open things up, tighten things. We've been touring with this album for one and a half year and it's been a privilege. We had a lot of experiences, made friends in different countries and we've grown, but a part of me is looking forward to devote all our time to new material. We have begun and we've been playing some of the new songs on this tour.

Live you give everything; do you feel you'd be short changing the audience otherwise?

I had to ask a British friend about that expression – never heard it before! But yeah, isn't that the whole idea of playing live? Shouldn't you give your best? The best live situation is when this synergy happens between you and the audience – you give, they give back and that makes you able to give back tenfold. It starts with us, but that means two things – the ball is on our court and; it's our ball! I definitely play music for my own sake. I'm on that stage to go into the music for my own sake. I can't give anything to anyone, if I don't get into it myself – I think we all feel like that. We appreciate that people want to listen, but you, as an artist, should be able to get into the music in front of a thousand people as well as ten people.

Are you looking forward to Ja Ja Ja and the other bands?

Yes we are! Playing in England is still new to us and you always have this kind of bloodthirst when entering a new arena.

Get Your Gun play a free show at Old Blue Last on 25 November with Honningbarna and Pink Street Boys.Colleagues, Katéa and AV AV AV plays Ja Ja Ja at The Lexington on 26 November. Tickets cost just £5 in advance for Ja Ja Ja members, who will also be offered some special festive treats at the show. Sign up as a member (for free) now to access this exclusive discount.

The Worrying Kind is out now via Louder Than War/Empty Tape.