Reigniting The Flames With ZACH BRITT From YOUNG LIONS

Interview by Kris Peters
As much as the majority of our life is spent looking into the
future, the past should always feature somewhere in your
thoughts.
It is, after all, the very thing that shaped your being, a point
which rings true no matter what walk of life you are from or what
passion ignites you.
But this is particularly important with music, as past music - or,
more specifically, the initial music releases - are the ones that
will more often than not resonate most with fans.
Brisbane rock outfit Young Lions will be doing just that, paying
homage to their debut album Burn by taking to the road and
revisiting that early material in an effort to connect with not
only the faithful, but, in some ways, themselves as well.
With the Burn 10 Year Anniversary Tour set to kick off in just
under two weeks Young Lions vocalist Zach Britt joined HEAVY for a
trip down memory lane.
"We're really getting into the production rehearsals now," he
smiled. "We're stoked to get out there. It's nice to revisit songs.
Obviously I've been doing a tour with my other band Dream On
Dreamer for the tenth anniversary of Loveless, which has been good,
so it's been getting me excited to get out there and do the same
things with Young Lions. Everyone really resonates with the music
that they've listened to for ten years, and they've had a long time
to learn the lyrics. We're getting stoked on some big singalongs
and there's so many epic bands coming on tour with us. We've got
Shangrila, Chasing Ghosts and Tapestry so it's a really all star
line up."
In the full interview, Zach lets us in on some potential birthday
surprises for fans, the challenges of playing an album start to
finish,, why those particular support bands were chosen, the early
vision of the band and how it has changed since, his initial
thoughts of Burn when it was first released, memories of early live
shows, how they have changed and improved since, things they have
learnt about themselves and their music over the last decade, their
latest album Make A Rainbow And Put It In The Sky and how it
differs to Burn and more.