The combo's debut album was written mainly by singer Jon Stevens and guitarist David Lowy � with some help from Slash � but Gunners Dizzy Reed and Richard Fortus, Stones bassist Darryl Jones and ex-Divinyls drummer Charley Drayton joined the creative process during a tour which has just wrapped up in Israel.

"We actually recorded three new songs in the middle of that last tour," says keyboardist Reed, the longest surviving Guns N'Roses member after Axl Rose."I think we do well under pressure.