Pure Love’s timing could not be better. People have written off guitar bands and complained of a death of great rock music before, of course, but there has surely never been such a gaping void to be filled as there is right now. Which is where Pure Love come in… because make no mistake – this is a great guitar rock band.

Like all good things, Pure Love – the name is taken, since you ask, from a song by ’70s jazz-rock fusionists Mahavishnu Orchestra, Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love – came into being quickly and instinctively. Singer Frank Carter and guitarist Jim Carroll got together in their adopted hometown of New York at the beginning of last year having decided to form their perfect rock band.